Due to a cheating scandal that involved defending champion Harvard, Princeton was the preseason favorite.
[1] Harvard won the regular season title outright and earned the conference's only postseason bid.
[3] Casey and Curry had been first-team and second-team All-Ivy selections for the 2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season, respectively.
[1] Twelve different television networks scheduled a total of 36 Ivy League men's basketball live broadcasts for the 2012–13 season.
[5] The conference endured two one-day postponements due to the February 2013 nor'easter (also known as Winter Storm Nemo).
Columbia's Brian Barbour completed his career with an 89.7% free throw shooting percentage, surpassing Jim Barton of Dartmouth (class of 1989) who tallied 89.5%.
On March 12, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association released its 2012–13 Men's All-District Teams, based upon voting from its national membership.
The victory was the conferences first since the 2009–10 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team advanced to the Sweet Sixteen.