2002 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

The 2002 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Bill Clarke Field in Princeton, New Jersey on May 11, 2002.^{[citation needed]} The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Harvard, the winner of the series, claimed their fourth title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2002 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Harvard made their fifth appearance in the series, and faced Princeton for the fifth time in seventh years. Harvard also won in 1997, 1998, and 1999.^[2] It was Princeton's seventh appearance in the Championship Series, all of which were consecutive. Harvard won a playoff game against Brown on May 8 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to advance to the Championship Series.

2002 Ivy League
baseball tournament

Teams	2
Format	Best of three series
Finals site	Bill Clarke Field Princeton, NJ
Champions	Harvard (4th title)
Winning coach	Joe Walsh (4th title)
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2002 Ivy League baseball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  x‍‍‍	13	–	7		.650			21	–	23		.477
Penn  ‍‍‍	11	–	9		.550			17	–	22		.436
Columbia  ‍‍‍	10	–	10		.500			22	–	25		.468
Cornell  ‍‍‍	6	–	14		.300			15	–	30		.333
Red Rolfe
Harvard  x‍‍‡‍y	13	–	7		.650			20	–	26		.435
Brown  x‍‍‍	13	–	7		.650			25	–	24		.510
Dartmouth  ‍‍‍	9	–	11		.450			21	–	20		.512
Yale  ‍‍‍	5	–	15		.250			12	–	27		.308
x – Division champion ‡ – Championship Series champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2002[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Results

	Finals
	Harvard	5	2	—
	Princeton	1	1	—

References

1. "2018 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
2. 2018 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 5, 2018.