The winner received the association's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA volleyball tournament.
With the Ivy League choosing not to participate in spring athletics, neither Harvard nor defending conference champion Princeton participated in the season.
As a result EIVA changed tournament formats.
Seeds 1 and 2 received byes to the semifinals, which were played at Rec Hall in University Park, Pennsylvania.
[1] Seedings and placement were to be determined by win percentage should teams not have played every match.