{"id":713123,"date":"2026-04-08T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/713123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:35:12","slug":"philly-hosting-2027-ivy-league-basketball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/713123\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly hosting 2027 Ivy League basketball tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ivy League will host its 2027 men\u2019s and women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ivyleague.com\/news\/2026\/4\/6\/general-ivy-madness-to-return-to-the-palestra-in-2027-as-part-of-centennial-celebration.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">college basketball tournaments<\/a> in Philadelphia.\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time the tournament has been held on the University of Pennsylvania campus since 2018, when Penn\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ivyleague.com\/news\/2018\/3\/11\/mens-basketball-penn-wins-ivy-league-tournament.aspx?path=mbball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">men\u2019s team<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ivyleague.com\/news\/2018\/3\/11\/womens-basketball-princeton-takes-home-ivy-league-tournament-title.aspx?path=wbball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton University women\u2019s team<\/a> won. After that tournament, it began rotating at various venues within the athletic conference.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince its inception, Ivy Madness has provided a season-capstone experience for student-athletes, coaches, and fans, and it has thrived in each Ivy League community it has visited over the past eight years,\u201d Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris said in a release. \u201cWe anticipate tremendous excitement for the 2027 tournaments in Philadelphia.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>As with all conference tournaments, the Ivy League winner will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I college basketball tournament.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 2027 tournament was originally scheduled to be held at <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/facilities\/leede-arena\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leede Arena<\/a> in Hanover, New Hampshire, home of Dartmouth College. According to a release, Dartmouth opted to pass on hosting the tournament so the league could celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Palestra.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Palestra first opened in 1926 with a capacity of more than 10,000; it holds 8,722 people.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":713124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1339,123628,40085,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-713123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-basketball","tag-ivy-league","tag-march-madness","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}