The Yale Bulldogs

Yale Bulldogs

The Yale Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the Yale University. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, and twenty one in men's golf.-Men's baseball:...

 men's basketball team represents Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...

, competing in the Ivy League

Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...

. The team plays home games in the John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium

Payne Whitney Gymnasium

The Payne Whitney Gymnasium is the gymnasium of Yale University. Built in the prevailing Gothic architecture style of the campus in 1932, it is a remarkable building, possessing a Gothic tower, a third-floor swimming pool, a polo practice room, and a rooftop running track. It is the second-largest...

 (capacity 2,532). The current head coach is James Jones.

Yale has been named national champion twice - in 1901 and 1903 - by the Helms Athletic Foundation

Helms Athletic Foundation

The Helms Athletic Foundation was an athletic foundation based in Los Angeles, founded in 1936 by Bill Schroeder and Paul Helms. It put together a panel of experts to select National Champion teams and make All-America team selections in a number of college sports including football and basketball...

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Yale has won four Ivy League championships - 1957, 1962, 1963 and 2002. (Before the official formation of the Ivy League, there was the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League

Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League

The Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League is a defunct athletic conference comprising the predecessor institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States that subsequently formed the Ivy League. Its membership ranged between five and eight institutions...

 - the forerunner to the Ivy Group. Yale won eight EIBL titles - 1902, 1903, 1907, 1915, 1917, 1923, 1933 and 1949.) The Bulldogs captured the first official Ivy League title in 1957 as they finished 12-2 and lost to eventual national champion North Carolina

North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball

The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is considered one of the most successful programs in NCAA history...

, 90-74, in the NCAA East Regional. The 1962 club finished 13-1 in Ivy play, but lost in overtime to Wake Forest

Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team participates in the Atlantic Coast Conference and their homecourt is the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Their only Final Four appearance was in 1962 and through the years they have produced several NBA players. The Demon Deacons have...

, 92-82, in the East Regional. The 1963 team tied Princeton

Princeton Tigers men's basketball

The Princeton Tigers men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing Princeton University. The school competes in the Ivy League in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . The Tigers play home basketball games at the Jadwin Gymnasium in...

 for the Ivy title with an 11-3 record, but fell to the Tigers in a playoff, 65-53. In 2002, the Bulldogs were part of the first three-way tie in Ivy history. Yale beat Princeton 76-60 in the first Ivy playoff game, but fell to Penn 77-58 in the game to determine the NCAA berth.

The team has appeared in three NCAA Tournament

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

s, in 1949, 1957, and 1962.