After the annual 14-game round robin home and away schedule, Harvard and Princeton tied as co-champion, resulting in a one-game playoff to determine the league's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

[7][8] The six-season championshipless spell tied a school record and put the team on the verge of establishing a new one should the season not be successful.

[12] However, in 2010, Johnson tweaked it to be a slightly more uptempo version of the motion offense, which resulted in the highest scoring Princeton team in decades.

[21] In 2009, the team adopted 11-year-old Christian Michael "Crunch" Regulski, a pediatric brain tumor patient, as part of the Friends of Jaclyn program.

[24] Mavraides scored 25 including 5 three-point shots,[14] but Princeton lost to Harvard at Lavietes Pavilion on March 5 and giving them a split of the season series.

[25][26] Princeton fell a half game behind Harvard who clinched at least a share of the 2010–11 Ivy League men's basketball season Championship with a 12–2 conference record.

[27] On March 8, Princeton defeated Penn to force a one-game playoff at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

[7][29] The share of the championship ended a six-season championshipless run, which tied a record for the longest in school history.

[30] Princeton won by a 63–62 margin thanks to a last second shot by Davis to earn its 24th NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bid.

[40] Defensive Player of the Year: Kareem Maddox (Sr., F, Oak Park, CA) All-Ivy League (ALL CAPS: Unanimous)