For the first time in five years of these Championship Week Primers, I will do a preview for an Ivy League Tournament. This is the first time that the Ivy League has had a postseason tournament, in previous years choosing to send their regular season champion to the NCAA Tournament. The Ivy League has had some success in recent years, be it Harvard in 2013 and 2014 or Yale in 2016. All of those teams won in the Round of 64.
Princeton won the Ivy League this year with a perfect 14-0 record. They are projected as a 13 seed at present, which could be upset territory. The Ivy League is naturally a one bid league though, so the Tigers will have to win this tournament to go dancing.
The top four teams will be in this inaugural tournament. It will take place at the Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on March 11th and 12th
Semifinals-Saturday, March 11th
#4 Penn vs. #1 Princeton
#3 Yale vs. #2 Harvard
Championship-Sunday, March 12th
It is a short tournament so there is not much to talk about. Princeton has dominated this conference from one end to the other and this formality will only confirm that.
Harvard 55, Princeton 66
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