NCAA Tournament March Madness

#315 Bucknell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Bucknell’s resume is built on a few clear positives — a home victory over Delaware and a quality road win at Mt St Mary’s that show the team can close games away from campus — but those moments are heavily offset by brutal road blowouts at Pittsburgh and St John’s and a humbling home loss to Cornell. Tight neutral losses to Bowling Green and Buffalo and a setback at Princeton expose inconsistency against both mid‑majors and power‑conference opponents, so the profile lacks a signature neutral‑site victory to balance the damage. With the remainder of the schedule mostly conference play the most meaningful opportunities are the road date at Colgate and the remaining neutral and road tests, where a statement result would erase much of the harm, while any repeat of one‑sided defeats would cement the negative impressions. Selection committees prize road and neutral success and punish the severity of bad losses, so Bucknell’s standing now hinges on grabbing those kinds of wins and avoiding more damaging results.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Delaware271W78-70
11/7@Mt St Mary's308W73-62
11/11@Princeton255L73-63
11/14Hofstra137L83-77
11/17@Pittsburgh95L84-50
11/20@St John's15L97-49
11/24(N)Bowling Green112L71-66
11/26(N)Buffalo208L73-71
11/30Cornell159L101-72
12/3@Akron60L97-77
12/6UMBC25949%
12/9@Rider34048%
12/20(N)Iowa312%
12/31@Holy Cross30637%
1/3Lehigh29757%
1/7@Navy19118%
1/10Loyola MD31861%
1/14Lafayette33266%
1/17@Colgate16415%
1/21Army34871%
1/24@Loyola MD31839%
1/26@Lafayette33244%
1/31Boston Univ24947%
2/4@American Univ23424%
2/7Colgate16432%
2/9Navy19137%
2/14@Boston Univ24926%
2/18American Univ23444%
2/22Holy Cross30659%
2/25@Army34850%
2/28@Lehigh29735%