2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball season

2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball season
League NCAA Division I
Sport Basketball
Duration January 11
– March 11, 2014
Number of teams 8
Regular season
Champions Harvard
Runners-up Yale
Season MVP Wesley Saunders, Harvard
2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
x-Harvard 13 1   .929     27 5   .844
Yale 9 5   .643     19 14   .576
Princeton 8 6   .571     21 9   .700
Columbia 8 6   .571     21 13   .618
Brown 7 7   .500     15 14   .517
Dartmouth 5 9   .357     12 16   .429
Penn 5 9   .357     8 20   .286
Cornell 1 13   .071     2 26   .071
Rankings from AP Poll
x-Ivy League champion

The 2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive basketball among Ivy League members. The tradition began when the league was formed during the 1956–57 season and its history extends to the predecessor Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which was formed in 1902.

Harvard won the regular season title outright and earned the conference's only 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament bid. Overall, the conference had five postseason participants and won eight postseason games, marking the best postseason in league history.[1]

Wesley Saunders of Harvard was named Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year. James Jones of Yale was named Ivy League Coach of the Year and Spencer Weisz of Princeton was named Ivy League Freshman of the Year.[2] Brown's Cedric Kuakumensah earned his second consecutive Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year recognition.[3]

Saunders was an Associated Press honorable mention NCAA Men's Basketball All-American.[4] On February 20, Matt Townsend of Yale was named a third team Academic All-American selection.[5] Penn's Dau Jok was named to the Allstate Good Works Team by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and earned the Most Courageous Award from the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA).[2]

The NABC named Saunders, T.J. Bray of Princeton and Justin Sears of Yale to the All-District 13 First Team and Sean McGonagill of Brown and Siyani Chambers of Harvard to its Second Team.[2][6] The USBWA named Saunders to its All-District I Team.[2][7]

The All-Ivy teams were as follows:[3]

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY

*Unanimous

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY

NCAA Tournament

Seed Region School First Four Round of 64 Round of 32 Sweet 16 Elite Eight Final Four Championship
12 East Harvard n/a Defeated Cincinnati 61–57 Eliminated by Michigan State 80–73
W–L (%): 0–0 1–0 1.000 0–1 .000 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 Total: 1–1 .500

College Basketball Invitational

School First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Princeton Defeated Tulane 56–55 Eliminated by Fresno State 56–72
W–L (%): 1–0 1.000 0–1 .000 0–0 0–0 Total: 1–1 .500

CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

School First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Brown Eliminated by Holy Cross 65–68
Columbia Defeated Valparaiso 58–56 Defeated Eastern Michigan 69–56 Eliminated by Yale 69–72
Yale Defeated Quinnipiac 69–68 Defeated Holy Cross 71–56 Defeated Columbia 72–69 Defeated VMI 75–62 Eliminated by Murray State 65–57
W–L (%): 2–1 .667 2–0 1.000 1–1 .500 1–0 1.000 0–1 .000 Total: 6–3 .667

References

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