 Following the annual 14 @-@ game round robin home & home schedule , Harvard emerged as champion and earned the conference 's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Tournament . Harvard entered the tournament as a number 12 seed , making its first NCAA tournament appearance since 1946 . Princeton and Penn were invited to the 2012 College Basketball Invitational . Yale was invited to the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Tournament . The season marked the first time that four Ivy League teams ( Harvard , Penn , Princeton and Yale ) participated in the postseason . The season marked the second time that the Ivy League had three 20 @-@ win teams ( Harvard , Penn and Princeton ) . 
