2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season

2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season
2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	8
Regular Season
League champions	Cornell
Season MVP	Alex Barnett, Dartmouth
Basketball seasons
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season was the Ivy League's 55th season of basketball. Cornell University won the league title for the second year in a row and was the recipient of the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Alex Barnett of Dartmouth College was the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year.

During the 2008–09 season, Harvard's Jeremy Lin was the only NCAA Division I men's college basketball player who ranked in the top ten in his conference for scoring (17.8), rebounding (5.5), assists (4.3), steals (2.4), blocked shots (0.6), field goal percentage (0.502), free throw percentage (0.744), and 3 point shot percentage (0.400).^[1]

Results

Home\Away	Brown	Columbia	Cornell	Dartmouth	Harvard	Penn	Princeton	Yale
Brown		57–70	45–85	69–59	61–59	52–73	61–43	62–70
Columbia	65–59		59–71	65–52	60–59	50–51	58–44	53–42
Cornell	90–58	83–72		79–76	96–75	60–51	83–59	64–36
Dartmouth	63–61	67–53	57–75		62–63	63–60	66–63	62–74
Harvard	64–63	72–63	71–70	66–75		66–60	71–77	66–87
Penn	64–54	63–74	63–88	59–69	66–75		56–59	79–87
Princeton	56–48	63–35	41–64	59–54	58–55	55–62		62–54
Yale	57–55	57–49	72–60	74–62	59–69	63–68	60–48

Host win
Guest win

Team	Seed	Results
Cornell	14	Lost First Round vs #3 Missouri (box score)

v t Ivy League men's basketball
Teams	Brown Bears Columbia Lions Cornell Big Red Dartmouth Big Green Harvard Crimson Penn Quakers Princeton Tigers Yale Bulldogs
Championships & awards	Conference tournament Player of the Year
Seasons	1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24

v t 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments
Conference	ACC America East Atlantic 10 Atlantic Sun Big 12 Big East Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA Conference USA Horizon MAAC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Pac-10 Patriot SEC Southern Southland SWAC Sun Belt The Summit League WAC West Coast
National	NCAA NIT CBI CIT