As a result, Princeton received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
The Ivy League was the last NCAA Division I conference to hold a postseason tournament, instead choosing to award its automatic bids to the NCAA men's and women's tournaments to its regular-season champions; in the event that two teams finished tied atop the standings, Ivy League bylaws allowed for a one-game playoff to determine the recipient of the automatic bid, and in exceptionally rare cases, a three-team single-elimination tournament would be scheduled if three teams tied atop the standings (the Ivy League never had more than three regular season co-champions in one season).
In March 2016, the League announced that it would institute men's and women's conference tournaments beginning with the 2016–17 season.
The conference also reduced by one the number of regular-season games that its members are allowed to schedule.
[1] The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualified for the tournament and were seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.