2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season

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2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season
LeagueNCAA Division I
SportBasketball
Number of teams8
Regular Season
League championsCornell
Season MVPAlex Barnett, Dartmouth
Basketball seasons
2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Cornell 11 – 3   .786 21 – 10   .677
Princeton 8 – 6   .571 13 – 14   .481
Yale 8 – 6   .571 13 – 15   .464
Columbia 7 – 7   .500 12 – 16   .429
Dartmouth 7 – 7   .500 9 – 19   .321
Harvard 6 – 8   .429 14 – 14   .500
Penn 6 – 8   .429 10 – 18   .357
Brown 3 – 11   .214 9 – 19   .321
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season was the Ivy League's 55th season of basketball. Cornell University won the league title for the second year in a row and was the recipient of the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Alex Barnett of Dartmouth College was the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year.

During the 2008–09 season, Harvard's Jeremy Lin was the only NCAA Division I men's college basketball player who ranked in the top ten in his conference for scoring (17.8), rebounding (5.5), assists (4.3), steals (2.4), blocked shots (0.6), field goal percentage (0.502), free throw percentage (0.744), and 3 point shot percentage (0.400).[1]


Results[]

Home\Away Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale
Brown 57–70 45–85 69–59 61–59 52–73 61–43 62–70
Columbia 65–59 59–71 65–52 60–59 50–51 58–44 53–42
Cornell 90–58 83–72 79–76 96–75 60–51 83–59 64–36
Dartmouth 63–61 67–53 57–75 62–63 63–60 66–63 62–74
Harvard 64–63 72–63 71–70 66–75 66–60 71–77 66–87
Penn 64–54 63–74 63–88 59–69 66–75 56–59 79–87
Princeton 56–48 63–35 41–64 59–54 58–55 55–62 62–54
Yale 57–55 57–49 72–60 74–62 59–69 63–68 60–48
Host win
Guest win

NCAA Tournament[]

Team Seed Results
Cornell 14 Lost First Round vs #3 Missouri (box score)

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ O'Neil, Dana (December 10, 2009). "Immigrant dream plays out through son: Harvard's do-it-all star learned the game from his father and a host of NBA legends". ESPN. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
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