Yale Bulldogs women's basketball the NCAA Tournament. They have made two postseason appearances, the 2011 WNIT and the 2018 WBI. Yale Bulldogs women's basketball The Yale Bulldogs women's basketball team is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing Yale University. The school competes in the Ivy League in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The Bulldogs, also nicknamed the Elis, play home basketball games at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, Connecticut on the university campus. The team is currently coached by Allison Guth, entering her third year. The Bulldogs have never played in the NCAA Tournament. Yale won the Ivy League
Ivy League university Additionally, each university receives millions of dollars in research grants and other subsidies from federal and state governments. Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges. "Planting the ivy" was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s. In 1893, an alumnus told "The Harvard Crimson", "In 1850, class day was placed upon the University Calendar. ... the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time." At Penn, graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873 and that practice