Ivy League Tournament bracket and schedule: Harvard backs into the 1 seed, but Yale has home court

Try as they might, the Harvard Crimson just couldn’t hand the Ivy League regular season title to Yale. Harvard first fell Friday night at Cornell, 72-59, then appeared to be in trouble for much of Saturday evening at Columbia.

Somehow, they escaped in overtime as a Lions’ buzzer-beating attempt fell short. Bryce Aiken continued on his absolute tear, scoring 36 points on 6-11 three-point shooting in 42 minutes.

Harvard and Yale finished the regular season with identical 10-4 league records, but the Crimson will be the 1 seed in the four-team conference tournament thanks to a season sweep over the Bulldogs.

That’s the good news for Harvard. Here’s the bad news: The tournament is held at the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven — Yale’s home court.

The Crimson will face Penn in the semifinals, a team that the Crimson beat twice this year but once in overtime and then by only six. Yale will face Princeton for the second game in a row. The Bulldogs dismantled the Tigers, 81-59, on Saturday night.

Tournament Bracket

Schedule

Semifinals: Saturday, March 16

No. 4 Penn vs. No. 1 Harvard, 12:30 p.m., ESPNU
No. 3 Princeton vs. No. 2 Yale, 3 p.m., ESPNU

Finals: Sunday, March 17

Semifinal Winners, noon, ESPN2