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The 2017–18 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.
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| 2017–18 Ivy League men's basketball season | |
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| League | NCAA Division I |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Duration | January 6 – March 11, 2018 |
| Number of teams | 8 |
| TV partner(s) | Ivy League Digital Network |
| Regular season | |
| Champions | Harvard and Penn |
| Season MVP | Seth Towns, Harvard men's basketball team |
| 2018 Ivy League men's basketball tournament | |
| Champions | Penn |
| Runners-up | Harvard |
| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Harvard | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 18 | – | 14 | .563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Penn † | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 24 | – | 9 | .727 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 16 | – | 15 | .516 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 12 | – | 16 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 13 | – | 16 | .448 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 11 | – | 16 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x – Ivy League co-champions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2018 Ivy League Tournament winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard and Pennsylvania co-shared the league title after finishing the regular season 12–2 within the Ivy League. Pennsylvania earned the league's bid to the 2018 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament after defeating Yale in the semifinals and Harvard in the finals of the inaugural conference tournament.
Seth Towns of Harvard was named Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year.[1]
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| First Team All-Ivy | |||
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| School | Class | Position | |
| A.J. Brodeur* | Penn | Sophomore | Forward |
| Seth Towns* | Harvard | Sophomore | Guard |
| Chris Lewis* | Harvard | Sophomore | Forward |
| Matt Morgan* | Cornell | Junior | Guard |
| Miye Oni* | Yale | Sophomore | Guard |
*Unanimous
| Second Team All-Ivy | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| School | Class | Position | |
| Stone Gettings | Cornell | Junior | Forward |
| Mike Smith | Columbia | Sophomore | Guard |
| Devin Cannady | Princeton | Junior | Guard |
| Desmond Cambridge | Brown | Freshman | Guard |
| Trey Phills | Yale | Junior | Guard |
| Myles Stephens | Princeton | Junior | Guard |
| Ryan Betley | Penn | Sophomore | Guard |
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| Seed | Region | School | First Four | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Sweet 16 | Elite Eight | Final Four | Championship |
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| 13 | West | Penn | n/a | Eliminated by Kansas, 76–60 | |||||
| W–L (%): | 0–0 – | 0–1 .000 | 0–0 – | 0–0 – | 0–0 – | 0–0 – | 0–0 –Total:0-1 .000 |
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