2017–18 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team 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 in Ivy League play to finish in third place. They lost in the semifinals of the Ivy League Tournament to Penn. The Bulldogs finished the 2016–17 season 18–11, 10–4 in Ivy League play to finish in
Ivy League knew infected the Ivy League colleges". A business writer, warning in 2001 against discriminatory hiring, presented a cautionary example of an attitude to avoid (the bracketed phrase is his): The phrase "Ivy League" historically has been perceived as connected not only with academic excellence, but also with social elitism. In 1936, sportswriter John Kieran noted that student editors at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn were advocating the formation of an athletic association. In urging them to consider "Army and Navy and Georgetown and Fordham and Syracuse and Brown and Pitt" as candidates for membership, he exhorted: Aspects