PRINCETON, N.J. – It was a close three-team race between Princeton, Yale, and Penn for the Ivy League crown during the 2022-23 regular season. The all-Ivy teams and major award winners, which was voted on by the league's eight head coaches, reflected the individual performances that led each of those teams to success. 
 
Penn’s Jordan Dingle was named the 2022-23 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Player of the Year following a regular season in which Dingle posted the second-highest scoring average in the Ivy League since the last 25 years. The junior averaged 23.6 points per game, which ranked second in the nation, and second only to Jim Barton’s 24.5 points per game during the 1987-88 season. Dingle was highly efficient from the charity stripe, connecting on 86.7 percent of his 165 free throw attempts, and was second in the Ivy League in three-pointers per game, knocking-down 2.8 shots from behind the arc per game.
 
The Yale Bulldogs received two major award honors: Defensive Player of the Year Bez Mbeng, and Coach of the Year James Jones. Mbeng, a sophomore guard, has made a name for his ability to wreak havoc on the defensive end of the floor. Mbeng tied for fourth in the Ivy League with 1.4 steals per game. Jones, who has been on the Bulldog bench since 1999, was named Ivy League Coach of the Year for a fourth time in his career, previously winning in 2020, 2016, and 2015. He guided Yale to a 20-7 record on the year and a 10-4 mark in Ivy League play, earning a share of the Ivy title.
 
Princeton’s Caden Pierce became one of the Tigers’ most consistent players during the second half of the season, reaching double-digit points in 6 of his last 12 games and grabbing double-digit rebounds in 5 of his last 10 games. He averaged 8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game and had 5 double-doubles on the year for the Tigers.
 
Dingle was one of four unanimous selections to the All-Ivy First Team, the other three being Harvard senior Chris Ledlum, Princeton senior Tosan Evbuomwan, and Yale junior Matt Knowling. Brown sophomore Kino Lilly Jr., the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, also was voted to the first team. Ledlum was second in the conference with 18.8 points per game and led the league in rebounding with 8.4 rebounds per game. Evbuomwan was fifth in scoring at 14.5 points per game, sixth in rebounding with 6.2 per game, and first with 4.9 assists per game. Knowling averaged 14.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game, while Lilly Jr. ranked third in scoring at 16.9 points per game.
 
The All-Ivy Second Team was as fairly distributed as the First Team with the five spots being represented by five different schools. Paxson Wojcik, a senior standout for Brown, was selected to the second team after posting 14.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. The rest of the All-Ivy Second Team was made up of Cornell’s Greg Dolan, Dartmouth’s Dame Adelekun, Princeton’s Matt Allocco, and Yale’s EJ Jarvis.
 
Cornell’s Nazir Williams, Penn’s Max Martz and Mbeng each earned honorable mention all-Ivy.

Additionally, one student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and on the court as members of the 2022-23 Ivy League Men's Basketball Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s Paxson Wojcik, Columbia's Zavian McLean, Cornell’s Greg Dolan, Dartmouth's Dame Adelekun, Harvard’s Idan Tretout, Penn's Lucas Monroe, Princeton’s Tosan Evbuomwan and Yale's Michael Feinberg were each named to the team.
 
2023 ALL-IVY LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Jordan Dingle, Penn (Jr., G – Valley Stream, N.Y.) 
 
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Bez Mbeng, Yale (So., G – Potomac, Md.)
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Caden Pierce, Princeton (Fr., F – Glenn Ellyn, Ill.)
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
James Jones, Yale
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
*Chris Ledlum, Harvard (Sr., G/F – Brooklyn, N.Y.)
*Jordan Dingle, Penn (Jr., G – Valley Stream, N.Y.) 
*Tosan Evbuomwan, Princeton (Sr., F – Newcastle, England)
*Matt Knowling, Yale (Jr., F – Ellington, Conn.)
Kino Lilly Jr., Brown (So., G – Glenn Dale, Md.)
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Paxson Wojcik, Brown (Sr., G – Charleston, S.C.)
Greg Dolan, Cornell (Sr., G – Williamsville, N.Y.)
Dame Adelekun, Dartmouth (Sr., F – Gastonia, N.C.)
Matt Allocco, Princeton (Jr., G – Hilliard, Ohio)
EJ Jarvis, Yale (Sr., F – Washington, D.C.)
 
HONORABLE MENTION
Nazir Williams, Cornell (So., G – Nyack, N.Y.)
Max Martz, Penn (Jr., F/G – Upper Arlington, Ohio)
Bez Mbeng, Yale (So., G – Potomac, Md.)
 
*unanimous selection