2015 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament 2015 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament The 2015 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament took place May 1 to May 3 at Stevenson Field in Providence, Rhode Island. Yale defeated Princeton to win the tournament and received the Ivy League 's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. The top four teams in the Ivy League after the regular season advance to the Ivy League Conference Tournament. Brown, Cornell, and Princeton finished the regular season with identical 4-2 records and share the league title. Tiebreakers only apply to tournament seeding. The winner of the tournament only receives
Ivy League was formally designated as "Ivy Day" in 1874. Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale, Simmons, Bryn Mawr and many others. Princeton's "Ivy Club" was founded in 1879. The first usage of "Ivy" in reference to a group of colleges is from sportswriter Stanley Woodward (1895–1965). The first known instance of the term "Ivy League" being used appeared in "The Christian Science Monitor" on February 7, 1935. Several sportswriters and other journalists used the term shortly later to refer to the older colleges, those along the northeastern seaboard of the United States, chiefly the nine institutions with origins dating from