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>
Ivy League "a philosophical enclave" and not a statement about class. Columnist Russell Baker opined that "Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets." Still, the last five presidents have all attended Ivy League schools for at least part of their education— George H. W. Bush (Yale undergrad), Bill Clinton (Yale Law School), George W. Bush (Yale undergrad, Harvard Business