Stay current with all the latest news on the Crimson as it makes its run through March Madness.
Watch Parties Announced for Harvard vs. North Carolina in NCAA Tournament Second Round - March 18
Join Harvard community members at Kennedy's in Harvard Square as the 13th-seeded Crimson take on fourth-seeded North Carolina Thursday in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The viewing party begins at 7 p.m. with tip off scheduled for 7:20 p.m. live on TNT. Fans in attendance will be treated to free rally towels and foam fingers (limited quantities available).
Kennedy's On The Square
15 Dunster Street
Cambridge, MA
Second Round Media Day - March 18
The Ivy League as a 13 Seed - March 18
Harvard earned a 13 seed in the 2015 NCAA tournament, marking the sixth time an Ivy League team has been seeded 13th in the Big Dance. This will mark the first time Harvard has been selected as a No. 13 seed and the first for an Ivy League school since Princeton in 2011.
That version of the Tigers fell by two points to fourth-seeded Kentucky, 59-57. In total, Ivy League schools own a 1-5 record as No. 13 seeds. Princeton defeated UCLA, seeded fourth, in 1996, 43-41, before falling to Mississippi State, 63-41, in the round of 32.
All seven opponents for 13th-seeded Ivy schools have been from the power 5 conferences. Thursday's game with North Carolina will mark the first time one of the opponents has been a school from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Year
2015
2011
2005
2000
1996
1990
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Ivy League 13 Seed
Harvard
Princeton
Penn
Penn
Princeton
Princeton
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Opponent
North Carolina
Kentucky
Boston College
Illinois
UCLA
Mississippi State
Arkansas
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Round
Round of 64
Round of 64
Round of 64
Round of 64
Round of 64
Round of 32
Round of 64
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Result
L, 57-59
L, 65-85
L, 58-68
W, 43-41
L, 41-63
L, 64-68
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Harvard is Dancing Again - March 17
For the fourth consecutive year and fifth time in program history, the Harvard men's basketball team is heading to the Big Dance!
The Crimson is seeded 13th in the West Region and will face fourth-seeded North Carolina in the tournament's second round Thursday, March 19 at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Tip off is scheduled for 7:20 p.m. EST live on TNT.
Harvard once again held a Selection Show viewing party in the Lee Family Hall of History and was one of several programs from around the country featured live during the show. Hundreds of students, fans and alumni joined the team to watch as the brackets were revealed and cheered on as Harvard heard its name announced among the field for a fourth straight year.
Harvard punched its ticket to the Big Dance on Saturday when it defeated Yale, 53-51, in a one-game playoff. The Crimson and Bulldogs shared the Ivy League championship with identical 11-3 conference records, the fifth straight Ivy title for Harvard, and played in just the ninth playoff game in Ancient Eight history for the right to represent the league in March Madness.
Harvard will be making its fourth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament, becoming just the third program to represent the Ivy League in the Big Dance in four successive years. Princeton was the last to do so in 1989-92, with Penn making six straight trips from 1970-75. Dartmouth also went to the NCAA Tournament for four-straight years from 1941-44 before the formation of the league.
The Crimson has advanced to the third round in each of the last two years, and with a win on Thursday will again join Penn (1971-73, 1978-80) and Princeton (1964-67) as one of just three programs in Ivy history to win a game in the tournament in three successive years.
Ivy League Men's Basketball Playoff – March 17
Harvard punched its ticket to the NCAA tournament with a 53-51 win over Yale in a one-game playoff after the two archrivals tied for the Ivy League title with identical 11-3 conference marks.
The 2015 playoff marked just the ninth time in the conference's 59 seasons that two or more teams finished tied atop the conference standings at year's end. Harvard was playing in its second playoff after falling to Princeton in 2011 on Douglas Davis' buzzer beater, 63-62, while Yale was playing in its third.
This year's playoff again came down to the wire as Steve Moundou-Missi hit a shot from just inside the arc with 7.2 seconds remaining to put the Crimson ahead by two. Yale had one final attempt to tie or win the game, but Moundou-Missi, the conference's defensive player of the year, was able to disrupt Javier Duren's shot just enough and Justin Sears' putback attempt hit off the rim as time expired, unleashing a flood of Crimson supporters who had made the six-plus hour drive to Philadelphia to witness the game.
