2013–14_Ivy_League_men's_basketball_season

2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball season

2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball season

Sports season

The 2013–14 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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Harvard won the regular season title outright and earned the conference's only 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament bid. Overall, the conference had five postseason participants and won eight postseason games, marking the best postseason in league history.[1]

Wesley Saunders of Harvard was named Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year. James Jones of Yale was named Ivy League Coach of the Year and Spencer Weisz of Princeton was named Ivy League Freshman of the Year.[2] Brown's Cedric Kuakumensah earned his second consecutive Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year recognition.[3]

Saunders was an Associated Press honorable mention NCAA Men's Basketball All-American.[4] On February 20, Matt Townsend of Yale was named a third team Academic All-American selection.[5] Penn's Dau Jok was named to the Allstate Good Works Team by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and earned the Most Courageous Award from the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA).[2]

The NABC named Saunders, T.J. Bray of Princeton and Justin Sears of Yale to the All-District 13 First Team and Sean McGonagill of Brown and Siyani Chambers of Harvard to its Second Team.[2][6] The USBWA named Saunders to its All-District I Team.[2][7]

The All-Ivy teams were as follows:[3]

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
  • Sean McGonagill, Brown (Sr., G - Brookfield, Ill.)
  • Alex Rosenberg, Columbia (Jr., F - Short Hills, N.J.)
  • *Wesley Saunders, Harvard (Jr., G/F - Los Angeles)
  • *T.J. Bray, Princeton (Sr., G - New Berlin, Wis.)
  • Justin Sears, Yale (So., F - Plainfield, N.J.)

*Unanimous

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
  • Maodo Lo, Columbia (So., G - Berlin)
  • Siyani Chambers, Harvard (So., G - Golden Valley, Minn.)
  • Steve Moundou-Missi, Harvard (Jr., F - Yaounde, Cameroon)
  • Laurent Rivard, Harvard (Sr., G - Saint-Bruno, Quebec, Canada)
  • Fran Dougherty, Penn (Sr., F - New Britain, Pa.)

NCAA tournament

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College Basketball Invitational

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CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

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References

  1. [1]
    Katz, Andy (April 23, 2014). "Look back, look ahead: Ivy League". ESPN. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Men's Basketball Collects Postseason Honors". IvyLeagueSports.com. April 5, 2014. Archived from the original on April 29, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
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    "Men's Basketball All-Ivy -- 2013-14". IvyLeagueSports.com. March 12, 2014. Archived from the original on June 24, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  4. [4]
    "College basketball: Creighton's Doug McDermott leads AP All-America team; Gator's Wilbekin on third team". Naples News. Associated Press. March 31, 2014. Archived from the original on June 1, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  5. [5]
    "Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams Announced: Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike and Ohio State Aaron Craft lead the team and are the Capital One Academic All-Americas of the Year for Division I women's and men's basketball, respectively". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 20, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  6. [6]
    "National Association of Basketball Coaches Announces 2013-14 Division I All-District Teams" (PDF). National Association of Basketball Coaches. March 12, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 18, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  7. [7]
    "USBWA Names 2013-14 Men's All-District Teams". United States Basketball Writers Association. March 11, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
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