2016–17 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team 2016–17 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team The 2016–17 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 18th-year head coach James Jones, played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, Connecticut and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 18–11, 10–4 in Ivy League play to finish in third place. In the inaugural Ivy League Tournament, they defeated Harvard before losing to Princeton in the championship game. The Bulldogs finished the 2015–16 season 23–7, 13–1 in
Ivy League the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954. Seven of the eight schools were founded during the colonial period (Cornell was founded in 1865), and thus account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, and are ranked among the best universities worldwide by "U.S. News & World Report". All eight universities place in the top fourteen of the 2019 "U.S. News & World Report" national university rankings, including four Ivies in the top three (Columbia and Yale are tied for third). In the