2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season
2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season | |
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League | NCAA Division I |
Sport | Basketball |
Duration | January 7 – March 6, 2012 |
Number of teams | 8 |
Regular season | |
League Champions | Harvard |
Season MVP | Zack Rosen, Penn |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 26 | – | 5 | .839 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 20 | – | 13 | .606 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 20 | – | 12 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 19 | – | 10 | .655 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 12 | – | 16 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 15 | – | 15 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 8 | – | 23 | .258 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 1 | – | 13 | .071 | 5 | – | 25 | .167 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As of March 15, 2012 Rankings from AP Poll
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The 2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive basketball among Ivy League members that began when the league was formed during the 1956–57 season, continuing from the predecessor Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which was formed in 1902. Harvard was the preseason favorite for the first time and spent most of the season receiving vote in the 2011–12 national rankings. The season marked the first time that four Ivy League teams (Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale) participated in the postseason. The season marked the second time that the Ivy League had three 20-win teams (Harvard, Penn and Princeton).
Preseason
Entering the
Season
By returning all of their key players from the 2010–11 Ivy League co-champion 2010–11 Crimson and competing successfully, Harvard received votes in the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings polls every week until the final week of the season and was ranked for many weeks.[6] Harvard represented the Ivy League by sweeping its three contests and emerging victorious in the 2011 Battle 4 Atlantis.[7] Among the highlights of the season were victories by both Harvard and Princeton over eventual 2012 ACC men's basketball tournament champion Florida State.[8][9] Zack Rosen finished the season as the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year.
Following the annual 14-game
Honors and accolades
Five players (Eitan Chemerinski - Jr., Cornell; Austin Morgan - Jr., Yale; Matthew Sullivan - Jr., Brown; Reggie Willhite - Sr., Yale; Chris Wroblewski - Sr. Cornell) were named
In season
Each week the Ivy League selects a player of the week and a rookie of the week.[21]
Player of the Week | Rookie of the Week | ||||||||
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Name | School | Class | Position | Name | School | Position | |||
November 14, 2011 | Zack Rosen | Penn | Sr. | G | Shonn Miller | Cornell | F | ||
Greg Mangano | Yale | Sr. | C | Jvonte Brooks | Dartmouth | F | |||
November 21, 2011 | Zack Rosen | Penn | Sr. | G | Shonn Miller | Cornell | F | ||
Gabas Maldunas | Dartmouth | F | |||||||
November 28, 2011 | Keith Wright | Harvard | Sr. | F | Alex Rosenberg | Columbia | F | ||
Shonn Miller | Cornell | F | |||||||
December 5, 2011 | Meiko Lyles | Columbia | So. | F | Jonah Travis | Harvard | F | ||
December 12, 2011 | Kyle Casey | Harvard | Jr. | F | Gabas Maldunas | Dartmouth | F | ||
Tyler Bernardini | Penn | Sr. | G | ||||||
December 19, 2011 | Ian Hummer | Princeton | Jr. | F | Galal Cancer | Cornell | F | ||
John Golden | Dartmouth | G | |||||||
December 26, 2011 | Tyler Bernardini | Penn | Sr. | G | Jvonte Brooks | Dartmouth | F | ||
Greg Mangano | Yale | Sr. | C | Denton Koon | Princeton | F | |||
January 9, 2012 | Greg Mangano | Yale | Sr. | C | Gabas Maldunas | Dartmouth | F | ||
Keith Wright | Harvard | Sr. | F | Shonn Miller | Cornell | F | |||
January 23, 2012 | Mark Cisco | Columbia | Jr. | C | Corbin Miller | Harvard | G | ||
January 30, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy | Brown | Jr. | F | Steve Moundou-Missi | Harvard | F | ||
February 6, 2012 | Greg Mangano | Yale | Sr. | C | Shonn Miller | Cornell | F | ||
February 13, 2012 | Chris Wroblewski | Cornell | Sr. | G | Jvonte Brooks | Dartmouth | F | ||
February 20, 2012 | Zack Rosen | Penn | Sr. | G | Gabas Maldunas | Dartmouth | F | ||
February 27, 2012 | Zack Rosen | Penn | Sr. | G | John Golden | Dartmouth | G | ||
March 5, 2012 | Kyle Casey | Harvard | Jr. | F | Jvonte Brooks | Dartmouth | F | ||
Zack Rosen | Penn | Sr. | G |
All-Ivy
The following players earned Ivy League postseason recognition:[22]
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USBWA
On March 6, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association released its 2011–12 Men's All-District Teams, based upon voting from its national membership. There were nine regions from coast to coast, and a player and coach of the year were selected in each. The following lists all the Big Ten representatives selected within their respective regions.[23]
District I (New England) Coach of the Year
All-District Team
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District II (New York, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
All-District Team
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NABC
The
First Team
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Second Team
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Other
Rosen was named an honorable mention Associated Press All-American.[25] Wright was also selected to participate in the NABC 2012 Reese's Division I All-Star Game at the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final four.[26]
Rankings
On December 5, 2011, Harvard made its first ever appearance in either the
Week | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Final |
AP Poll[32] | RV | RV | RV | RV | 25 | RV | RV | 24 | 22 | RV | RV | RV | RV | 25 | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | |
Coaches Poll[32] | RV | RV | 24 | RV | 25 | 23 | 21 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 21 | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV |
Postseason
NCAA tournament
Team | Bid Type | Seed | Results |
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Harvard | Automatic | #12 | lost to #5 Vanderbilt 79–70[33] |
National Invitation tournament
The Ivy League did not have any entrants in this tournament.
College Basketball Invitational
Team | Results |
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Penn | defeated Quinnipiac 74–63[34] lost to Butler 63–53[35] |
Princeton | defeated Evansville 95–86[36] lost to Pittsburgh 82–61[37] |
CollegeInsider.com tournament
Team | Results |
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Yale | lost to Fairfield 68–56[38] |
Notes
- ^ "Mitch Henderson Named Princeton Men's Basketball Coach". IvyLeagueSports.com. April 20, 2011. Archived from the original on January 29, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "Yale's Mangano Invited to the 2011 USA Basketball World University Games Team Training Camp". IvyLeagueSports.com. June 8, 2011. Archived from the original on January 29, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ a b "2011-12 Ivy League MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 5, 2012. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "Yale's Kreisberg Named to Israel Under-20 Men's Basketball National Team". IvyLeagueSports.com. June 27, 2011. Archived from the original on January 29, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "2011-12 Ivy League MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 5, 2012. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "2011-12 Ivy League MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 12, 2012. p. 7. Retrieved March 13, 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "2011-12 Ivy League MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 12, 2012. p. 18. Retrieved March 13, 2012.[permanent dead link]
- CBS Interactive. Archived from the originalon November 23, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
- ^ "Florida State Seminoles Schedule - 2011-12". ESPN. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "Harvard Handed No. 12 Seed, to Face Vanderbilt in the 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship". IvyLeagueSports.com. March 11, 2012. Archived from the original on August 13, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "Penn, Princeton to Play in the 2012 College Basketball Invitational". IvyLeagueSports.com. March 11, 2012. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "Yale Men's Basketball Open with Fairfield in the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Tournament". IvyLeagueSports.com. March 11, 2012. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ Ivy League (March 12, 2012). "@Ivy_Athletics status". Twitter. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "2011-12 Ivy League Men's Basketball: Postseason - Week 1 • March 12, 2012" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 12, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
- ^ "2011-12 Ivy League Men's Basketball: Postseason - Week 2 • March 18, 2012" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 18, 2012. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 13, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- College Sports Information Directors of America. February 2, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
- College Sports Information Directors of America. February 23, 2012. Archived from the originalon July 13, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- College Sports Information Directors of America. February 23, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "Brown's Leffelman, Cornell's Wroblewski Named Academic All-America in Men's Basketball". IvyLeagueSports.com. February 22, 2011. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
- ^ "2011-12 Ivy League MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 5, 2012. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "2011-12 Ivy League MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. March 5, 2012. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "Men's Basketball All-Ivy -- 2011-12". IvyLeagueSports.com. March 7, 2012. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ^ "USBWA Names 2011-12 Men's All-District Teams". U.S. Basketball Writers Association. March 6, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
- ^ "National Association of Basketball Coaches Announces 2012 Division I All-District Teams" (PDF). National Association of Basketball Coaches. March 14, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
- ^ "2011-12 AP All-America Teams". Washington Examiner. March 26, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Harvard's Wright Selected to Play in the 2012 NABC Division I All-Star Game". IvyLeagueSports.com. March 26, 2012. Archived from the original on September 18, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
- ^ "Duke, UNC don't cede much in Top 25". ESPN. December 5, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ Brennan, Eamonn (December 5, 2011). "Harvard shakes one monkey off its back". ESPN. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Harvard Men's Basketball Appears In National Polls". IvyLeagueSports.com. December 5, 2011. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings – Week 9 (Jan. 2)". ESPN. January 2, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ^ "2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings – Week 14 (Feb. 6)". ESPN. February 6, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ^ a b "2011–12 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings". ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures. Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- ^ "Vanderbilt overcomes Harvard's late charge to advance". ESPN. March 15, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ "Quinnipiac 63 (18-14, 10-8 NEC); Pennsylvania 74 (20-12, 11-3 Ivy)". ESPN. March 14, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ "Butler 63 (22-14, 11-7 Horizon); Pennsylvania 53 (20-13, 11-3 Ivy)". ESPN. March 19, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ "Princeton 95 (20-11, 10-4 Ivy); Evansville 86 (16-16, 9-9 MVC)". ESPN. March 13, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ "Princeton 61 (20-12, 10-4 Ivy); Pittsburgh 82 (19-16, 5-13 Big East)". ESPN. March 19, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ "Yale 56 (19-10, 9-5 Ivy); Fairfield 68 (20-14, 12-6 MAAC)". ESPN. March 14, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.