The 2026 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Ivy Madness", was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 14–15, 2026, at Newman Arena on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The winner, Penn, received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA Tournament.
Seeds The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualified for the tournament and were seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.
SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 21Yale11–32Harvard10–43Penn9–54Cornell8–6DNQPrinceton5–91–1 vs. YaleDNQDartmouth5–90–2 vs. Yale1–1 vs. HarvardDNQColumbia5–90–2 vs. Yale0–2 vs. HarvardDNQBrown3–11
Schedule SessionGameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendanceSemifinals – Saturday, March 141111:00 a.m.No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Cornell88–76ESPNU2,27722:00 p.m.No. 2 Harvard vs. No. 3 Penn60–62OTESPNewsChampionship – Sunday, March 152312:00 p.m.No. 1 Yale vs. No. 3 Penn84–88OTESPN21,466Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket
* denotes overtime period
Awards and Honors All-Tournament Team Player Team TJ Power Penn Cameron Thrower Trevor Mullin Yale Jake Fiegen Cornell Ben Eisendrath Harvard
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See also 2026 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
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