2018–19 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team 2018–19 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team The 2018–19 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 20th-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. The Bulldogs finished the 2017–18 season 16–15, 9–5 in Ivy League play to finish in third place. In the Ivy League Tournament, they lost to Penn in the semifinal round. !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Ivy League regular season </small>
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