Ivy League Basketball Standings Scenarios

With just two weekends left in the Ivy League basketball season, seeding for the Ivy Tournament is still up for grabs. Each game carries importance in deciding which teams will lock up a spot. Predict which team will win each game and this tool will tell you what four teams will be playing for an NCAA Tournament berth.

Teams with a gray background will go to the tournament. This tool takes into account all possible tiebreaker scenarios, and you can read below what happens when there's a tie.

Men'sWomen's
# School Record Win?
February 23 February 24 March 2 March 3
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Yale
# School Record Win?
February 23 February 24 March 2 March 3
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Yale

Tiebreaker Scenarios

This is how ties are resolved, according to Ivy Madness.

If there's a two-way tie, the following steps are taken to resolve the tie:

  1. Head-to-head competition, in which the higher seed goes to the team that has won the most games against the other team in the tie.
  2. If a tie still exists, it will be broken by comparing each team's record against the highest seed outside of the tie and continuing through the full league standings if needed. If there's a group of tied teams, the combined records are used.
  3. Next, an average of the most recent ratings indices (Sagarin, Ken Pom, BPI, and NCAA RPI for the men; Sagarin/RPIratings.com and NCAA RPI for the women) will be used to determine the higher seed.
  4. If a tie still persists, a draw will be conducted by the Executive Director. (Our tool simulates a coin flip for this case.)

If there's a tie between more than two teams, the following steps are taken:

  1. Records between the tied teams, where the higher seed goes to the team that has won the most games against the other teams tied at that spot.
  2. Follow the same steps as for a two-team tie.