2018 Ivy League women's basketball tournament

2018 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2017–18
Teams	4
Site	Palestra Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Champions	Princeton (1st title)
Winning coach	Courtney Banghart (1st title)
Television	ESPNU, ESPN3
Ivy League women's basketball tournaments

2017–18 Ivy League women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Princeton †	12	–	2		.857			24	–	6		.800
Penn	11	–	3		.786			22	–	9		.710
Harvard	10	–	4		.714			18	–	11		.621
Yale	8	–	6		.571			19	–	13		.594
Dartmouth	7	–	7		.500			15	–	12		.556
Brown	3	–	11		.214			15	–	12		.556
Cornell	3	–	11		.214			7	–	20		.259
Columbia	2	–	12		.143			8	–	21		.276
† 2018 Ivy League Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

The 2018 Ivy League women's basketball tournament is a women's college conference tournament held March 10 and 11, 2018, at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Princeton defeated Penn, 63–34, in the championship game to earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Only the top four teams in the 2017–18 Ivy League regular-season standings participated in the tournament and were seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.

Seed	School	Conference
1	Princeton	12–2 (24–5)
2	Penn	11–3 (21–8)
3	Harvard	10–4 (18–10)
4	Yale	8–6 (15–13)

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 10
1	1	6:00 PM	#1 Princeton vs. #4 Yale	ESPN3
	2	8:30 PM	#2 Penn vs. #3 Harvard
Championship – Sunday, March 11
2	3	4:00 PM	#1 Princeton vs. #2 Penn	ESPNU

*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

	Semifinals Saturday, March 10 The Palestra					Final Sunday, March 11 The Palestra
	1	Princeton	78
	4	Yale	57
						1	Princeton	63
						2	Penn	34
	2	Penn	57
	3	Harvard	52

See also

• 2018 Ivy League men's basketball tournament