2017–18 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team third place. In the inaugural Ivy League Tournament, they defeated Harvard before losing to Princeton in the championship game. !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Ivy League regular season !colspan=9 style=| Ivy League Tournament </small> 2017–18 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team The 2017–18 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 19th-year head coach James Jones, played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, Connecticut as members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 16–15, 9–5
Public Ivy Public Ivy "Public Ivy" is a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book "Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities" to refer to U.S. universities that are claimed to provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public university price. Public Ivies are considered, according to "The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education", to be capable of "successfully competing with the Ivy League schools in academic rigor … attracting superstar faculty and in competing for the best and brightest students of all races." Moll, who earned his Master of Divinity degree from Yale