Seeded third in one of the NIT 's brackets , Georgetown faced Harvard , the No. 6 seed , in the first game . Harvard had qualified automatically for the NIT by winning the Ivy League regular-season championship and had missed an NCAA Tournament bid by losing to Yale in the championship game of the 2019 Ivy League Tournament . The two schools had not met since December 2009 . As the higher seed , Georgetown hosted the game , but with Capital One Arena booked to host a Washington Capitals National Hockey League game , the Hoyas met the Crimson at a packed McDonough Gymnasium in Georgetown 's first on-campus game since November 2016 . The crowd included United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan , a Harvard Law School alumna
2019 Ivy League Tournament
2019 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament
2018–19 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team