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
Yale University a Title IX steering committee to address complaints of sexual misconduct. Yale, like other Ivy League schools, instituted policies in the early 20th century designed to maintain the proportion of white Protestants from notable families in the student body (see "numerus clausus"), and was one of the last of the Ivies to eliminate such preferences, beginning with the class of 1970. Yale has a complicated relationship with its home city; for example, thousands of students volunteer every year in a myriad of community organizations, but city officials, who decry Yale's exemption from local property taxes, have long pressed the university