2024 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
{{Short description|American college basketball tournament}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament
|Year=2024
|Conference=Ivy League
|Division=I
|Gender=Women's
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|Teams=4
|Arena=Levien Gymnasium
|City=New York City
|Champions=Princeton
|TitleCount=5th
|Coach=Carla Berube
|CoachCount=3rd
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{{2023–24 Ivy League women's basketball standings}}
The 2024 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Ivy Madness", was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. It was held on March 15 and 16, 2024 at the Levien Gymnasium on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.{{Cite web |title=2024 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League |url=https://ivyleague.com/feature/ivymadness2024 |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=ivyleague.com |language=en}} The winner, the Princeton Tigers, received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualified for the tournament and will be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff. If a tie for any of the top four positions exists, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record between teams involved in the tie.
- Record against the top team(s) not involved in the tie in order of conference record, going down through the seedings until the tie is broken.
- Average of the teams' ranking in the following computer systems: NCAA NET Ranking.
- If a tie persists, a draw shall be conducted by the executive director following the last contest of the regular season.{{cite web |title=Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers |url=https://ivyleague.com/sports/2022/2/17/MBB_0217222638.aspx|accessdate=February 16, 2024 |publisher=Ivy League}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Seed !School !Record !Tiebreaker |
| 1
| align="left" |Princeton |13–1 | align="left" |Higher NET |
| 2
| align="left" |Columbia |13–1 | align="left" |Lower NET |
| 3
| align="left" |Harvard |9–5 | |
| 4
| align="left" |Penn |7–7 | align="left" |1–1 vs. Harvard |
| bgcolor="#bbbbbb"
|DNQ | align="left" |Brown |7–7 | align="left" |0–2 vs. Harvard |
| bgcolor="#bbbbbb"
|DNQ | align="left" |Yale |5–9 | |
| bgcolor="#bbbbbb"
|DNQ | align="left" |Cornell |1–13 |Higher NET |
| bgcolor="#bbbbbb"
|DNQ | align="left" |Dartmouth |1–13 |Lower NET |
Schedule
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!Session !Game !Time !Matchup !Score !Television !Attendance |
| colspan="7" |Semifinals – Friday, March 15 |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |1
|1 |4:30 pm |No. 1 Princeton vs. No. 4 Penn | 59–54 | rowspan="2" |ESPN+ |1,552 |
| 2
|7:00 pm |No. 2 Columbia vs. No. 3 Harvard |63–61 |2,598 |
| colspan="7" |Championship – Saturday, March 16 |
| 2
|3 |5:00 pm |No. 1 Princeton vs. No. 2 Columbia |75-58 |2,703 |
| colspan="7" |Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.{{Cite web |title=TV Coverage |url=https://ivyleague.com/sports/2018/12/4/GEN_1204183007.aspx}} |
Bracket
{{4TeamBracket
| RD1=Semifinals
Friday, March 15
ESPN+
| RD2=Championship
Saturday, March 16
ESPNews
| score-width=25
| team-width=130
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1=Princeton
| RD1-score1=59
| RD1-seed2=4
| RD1-team2=Penn
| RD1-score2=54
| RD1-seed3=2
| RD1-team3=Columbia
| RD1-score3=63
| RD1-seed4=3
| RD1-team4=Harvard
| RD1-score4=61
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1=Princeton
| RD2-score1=75
| RD2-seed2=2
| RD2-team2=Columbia
| RD2-score2=58
}}
See also
References
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{{Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament navbox}}
{{2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament navbox}}
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