The Ivy League baseball tournament is the conference baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Ivy League. The top four finishers from the round-robin regular season participate in a double elimination tournament held at the site of the regular season champion, with the winner earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. won the inaugural Ivy League tournament in 2023.
From 1993 until 2022 (except for 2020 and 2021 when the series was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), the league's top two teams played in a best-of-three series at the end of the regular season, which was known as the Ivy League Championship Series.
History In 1930, six of the eight Ivy League teams formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. Harvard joined in 1934, while Brown, Army and Navy joined in 1948. When Army and Navy joined the Patriot League for the 1993 season, the Ivy League began sponsoring baseball.
From 1993 to 2017, the teams are split into two divisions; the Mid-Atlantic members are in the Lou Gehrig Division, and the New England members are in the Red Rolfe Division. The winners of each division met in a best-of-three championship series to determine the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
The divisions were dissolved in 2018, with the top two teams from the regular season meeting in the championship series. The team with the best regular season record is named the Ivy League champion. However, the winner of the championship series still gained the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The event was canceled for 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Starting in 2023, the Ivy League replaced the series format with a four-team double elimination tournament held at the site of the regular season champion. The winner of the tournament receives an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.
Champions For a list of EIBL champions, see List of Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Champions By year The following is a list of conference champions and sites by year.
Championship Series Year Champion Runner-up Games Venue 1993 2 Palmer Field • Middletown, CT 1994 3 Palmer Field • Middletown, CT 1995 2 Yale Field • New Haven, CT 1996 2 Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ 1997 3 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA 1998 2 Yale Field • New Haven, CT 1999 3 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA 2000 2 Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ 2001 3 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH 2002 2 Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ 2003 3 Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ 2004 2 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH 2005 2 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA 2006 2 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA 2007 2 Murray Stadium • Providence, RI 2008 3 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH 2009 3 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH 2010 3 Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY 2011 3 Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ 2012 3 Hoy Field • Ithaca, NY 2013 Columbia 2 Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY 2014 2 Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY 2015 3 Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY 2016 3 Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ 2017 2 Yale Field • New Haven, CT 2018 2 Yale Field • New Haven, CT 2019 2 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA 2020 Canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic 2021 Canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic 2022 3 Meiklejohn Stadium • Philadelphia, PA
Tournament Year Champion Runner-up Venue 2023 Meiklejohn Stadium • Philadelphia, PA 2024 Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NYYogi Berra Stadium • Little Falls, NJ 2025 Bush Field • New Haven, CT 2026 Yale Bush Field • New Haven, CT
Championships by school The following is a list of conference champions listed by school. Program Winning years Princeton 13 8 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2016 Columbia 11 7 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022, 2025 Harvard 11 6 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2019 Yale 8 4 1993, 1994, 2017, 2026 Penn 9 3 1995, 2023, 2024 Dartmouth 11 2 2009, 2010 Brown 2 1 2007 Cornell 3 1 2012
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