2014–15 Ivy League men's basketball season

August 2023 2014–15 Ivy League men's basketball season #008000 #FFFFFF NCAA Division I Basketball 125px January 11– March 11, 2015 8 Ivy League Digital Network Regular season League co-champions Harvard and Yale Champions Justin Sears, Yale Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year One-game playoff (March 14) Harvard 53-51 Basketball 2013–14 2015–16 The 2014–15 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 and Yale shared the league title after finishing the regular season tied with identical 11-3 conference records. Harvard earned the league's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by defeating Yale 53–51 in a one-game playoff. Overall, the conference had five postseason participants and won eight postseason games, marking the best postseason in league history.https://www.espn.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/98608/look-back-look-ahead-ivy-league Look back, look ahead: Ivy League 2014-04-25 2014-04-23 ESPN Katz, Andy 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.http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/releases/Mens_Basketball_Collects_Postseason_Honors Men's Basketball Collects Postseason Honors 2014-04-29 2014-04-05 IvyLeagueSports.com https://web.archive.org/web/20140429195454/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/releases/Mens_Basketball_Collects_Postseason_Honors 2014-04-29 dead Brown's Cedric Kuakumensah earned his second consecutive Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year recognition.http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/releases/Mens_Basketball_All-Ivy_--_2013-14 Men's Basketball All-Ivy -- 2013-14 2014-04-30 2014-03-12 IvyLeagueSports.com https://web.archive.org/web/20170624060954/http://ivyleaguesports.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/releases/Mens_Basketball_All-Ivy_--_2013-14 2017-06-24 dead Saunders was an Associated Press honorable mention NCAA Men's Basketball All-American.http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2014/mar/31/college-basketball-creighton-mcdermott-wilbekin/ College basketball: Creighton's Doug McDermott leads AP All-America team; Gator's Wilbekin on third team Associated Press Naples News March 31, 2014 April 29, 2014 June 1, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140601232031/http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2014/mar/31/college-basketball-creighton-mcdermott-wilbekin/ dead On February 20, Matt Townsend of Yale was named a third team Academic All-American selection.http://www.cosida.com/news/2014/2/20/AAA_0220141447.aspx Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams Announced: Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike and Ohio State Aaron Craft lead the team and are the Capital One Academic All-Americas of the Year for Division I women's and men's basketball, respectively. 2014-04-29 2014-02-20 College Sports Information Directors of America 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). 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.http://www.nabc.org/awards/all_district/2013-14_NABC-Division_I_ALL-DISTRICT_TEAMS-final.pdf National Association of Basketball Coaches Announces 2013-14 Division I All-District Teams 2014-03-12 2014-03-12 National Association of Basketball Coaches 2016-04-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20160418101646/http://www.nabc.org/awards/all_district/2013-14_NABC-Division_I_ALL-DISTRICT_TEAMS-final.pdf dead The USBWA named Saunders to its All-District I Team.http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/news/2014/alldistrict140311.html USBWA Names 2013-14 Men's All-District Teams 2014-03-12 2014-03-11 United States Basketball Writers Association All-Ivy Teams First Team All-Ivy School Class Position Maodo Lô* Columbia Junior GuardShonn Miller* Cornell Senior Forward Wesley Saunders* Harvard Senior Guard Javier Duren* Yale Senior Guard Justin Sears* Yale Junior Forward *Unanimous +Second Team All-IvySchoolClassPositionCedric KuakumensahBrownJuniorForwardGabas MaldunasDartmouthSeniorCenterAlex MitolaDartmouthJuniorGuardSiyani ChambersHarvardJuniorGuardSteve Moundou-MissiHarvardSeniorForwardSteve CookPrincetonSophomoreForwardSpencer WeiszPrincetonSophomoreForward https://ivyleague.com/news/2015/3/11/3_11_2015_963.aspx?path=mbball Men's Basketball All-Ivy, Postseason Awards Announced ivyleague.com en 2020-01-17 NCAA tournament 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Seed Region School First Four Round of 64 Round of 32 Sweet 16 Elite Eight Final Four Championship13 West Harvard n/a Eliminated by North Carolina, 67-65 W–L (%):0–0 0 00–1 0 10–0 0 10–0 0 00–0 0 00–0 0 00–0 0 0Total:0-1 0 1 College Basketball Invitational 2014 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 00–1 0 10–0 0 00–0 0 0 Total: 1–1 1 1 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament 2014 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 65–57W–L (%):2–1 2 12–0 2 01–1 1 11–0 1 00–1 0 1 Total: 6–3 6 3 References