The 2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive

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among

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members. The tradition began when the league was formed during the 1956–57 season and its history extends to the predecessor

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, which was formed in 1902. Harvard won the regular season title outright and earned the conference's only

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bid. Overall, the conference had five postseason participants and won eight postseason games, marking the best postseason in league history. Wesley Saunders of

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was named Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year. James Jones of

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was named Ivy League Coach of the Year and Spencer Weisz of

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was named Ivy League Freshman of the Year.

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's Cedric Kuakumensah earned his second consecutive Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year recognition. Saunders was an

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honorable mention NCAA Men's Basketball All-American. On February 20, Matt Townsend of Yale was named a third team

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selection. Penn's Dau Jok was named to the Allstate Good Works Team by the

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(NABC) and earned the Most Courageous Award from the

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(USBWA). The NABC named Saunders, T.J. Bray of Princeton and Justin Sears of Yale to the All-District 13 First Team and Sean McGonagill of Brown and Siyani Chambers of Harvard to its Second Team. The USBWA named Saunders to its All-District I Team. The All-Ivy teams were as follows: ;FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY *Sean McGonagill, Brown (Sr., G - Brookfield, Ill.) *Alex Rosenberg, Columbia (Jr., F - Short Hills, N.J.) **Wesley Saunders, Harvard (Jr., G/F - Los Angeles) **T.J. Bray, Princeton (Sr., G - New Berlin, Wis.) *Justin Sears, Yale (So., F - Plainfield, N.J.) *Unanimous ;SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY *Maodo Lo, Columbia (So., G - Berlin) *Siyani Chambers, Harvard (So., G - Golden Valley, Minn.) *Steve Moundou-Missi, Harvard (Jr., F - Yaounde, Cameroon) *Laurent Rivard, Harvard (Sr., G - Saint-Bruno, Quebec, Canada) *Fran Dougherty, Penn (Sr., F - New Britain, Pa.)

NCAA tournament

College Basketball Invitational

CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

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