The 2001–02 Ivy League men's basketball season was the Ivy League's 48th season of basketball. Penn, Yale and Princeton finished the season tied with identical 11-3 records and shared the league championship. To determine the recipient of the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament a three-team, two-game tournament was held at neutral sites. Penn's 3–1 record in games with Princeton and Yale gave them the top seed and a bye. In the first game Yale defeated Princeton 76–60 at the Palestra on Penn's campus. Penn then defeated Yale 77–58 at Lafayette College and received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Ugonna Onyekwe of Penn was named the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year.
Standings SchoolCoachWLPennFran Dunphy113James Jones113PrincetonJohn Thompson III113BrownGlen Miller86HarvardFrank Sullivan77ColumbiaArmond Hill410DartmouthDave Faucher212CornellSteve Donahue212
Statistical leaders + Category Player Team Stat Points per game Earl Hunt Brown 19.7 Rebounds per game Koko Archibong Penn 10.0 Assists per game Elliott Prasse-Freeman Harvard 5.3 Steals per game Andrew Gellert Harvard 2.42 Blocks per game Chris Wiedemann Columbia 2.54 FT% Earl Hunt Brown 84.1 3FG% Flinder Boyd Dartmouth 48.5
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