Below are details about Harvard’s men’s basketball team winning the Ivy League championship in 2008:

• The Harvard Crimson finished the 2007-2008 season with an overall record of 14-14 and a conference record of 10-4.
• Their record was good enough to earn them a share of the Ivy League title with the Cornell Big Red.
• This was the first Ivy League championship for Harvard’s men’s basketball team since 1950, ending a 58-year championship drought.
• Harvard and Cornell faced each other in a one-game playoff to determine which team would earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
• The game was played on March 14, 2008, at the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Harvard won the game by a score of 82-70, earning the team its first-ever NCAA Tournament bid.
• Harvard’s victory was led by senior co-captain Drew Housman, who scored 22 points and had 4 assists.
• Harvard lost to the fifth-seeded University of Connecticut in the first round of the NCAA Tournament by a score of 80-87.
• Despite the loss, the Crimson’s Ivy League championship and NCAA Tournament appearance were seen as a major accomplishment for the program and a sign of its growth under head coach Tommy Amaker.