 On December 5 , 2011 , Harvard made its first ever appearance in either the AP ( 25 ) or Coaches Poll ( 24 ) . It leaves Brown as the only remaining Ivy League school to have never been ranked in the AP Poll and leaves only seven schools that have played Division I basketball since the AP Poll began that have never been ranked in it . Harvard is the first Ivy League team ranked in the Coaches Poll since the 2009 – 10 Cornell Big Red and the first Ivy League team ranked in the AP Poll since the 1997 – 98 Princeton Tigers , who finished 8th in the poll . By January 2 , the team achieved rankings of 22 in the AP Poll and 21 in the Coaches Poll . The team was also ranked 21st in the Coaches Poll On February 6 . Below are Harvard 's rankings for the season : 
