 Yale beat Princeton 76–60 in the first Ivy playoff game, but fell to Penn 77–58 in the game to determine the NCAA berth.In 2015, Yale tied Harvard for the Ivy title with an 11–3 record, with a playoff between the two to determine the NCAA automatic bid.Harvard won that playoff game at the Palestra in Philadelphia on March 14, 2015 by a score of 53-51, thus preventing Yale from reaching the NCAA Tournament in which the Bulldogs had not appeared in 53 years.