NCAA Tournament March Madness

#327 Bucknell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Bucknell's resume forces a blunt conclusion: the team's only reliable route to the NCAA tournament is by winning the Patriot League title. Nonconference play included a solid home victory over Delaware and an eye-catching road win at Mt St Mary's but those positives are buried beneath blowout defeats at Power Five sites such as Pittsburgh and St John's and heavy losses at Akron, at Princeton, and a damaging home loss to Cornell. League play has offered flashes against Lehigh, Loyola Maryland, and Lafayette yet Bucknell has struggled away from home, shown by the loss at Colgate and several tight conference setbacks that fail to elevate the résumé. Remaining dates at home against Colgate and Navy and road trips to Boston University, Lafayette, and Army are the only genuine opportunities to repair the profile, so any faltering there will leave the team with no credible at-large case. The thin supply of quality wins, the severity of certain losses, and the limited margin for error left on the schedule make winning the conference tournament the practical necessity.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Delaware281W78-70
11/7@Mt St Mary's297W73-62
11/11@Princeton224L73-63
11/14Hofstra115L83-77
11/17@Pittsburgh100L84-50
11/20@St John's20L97-49
11/24(N)Bowling Green128L71-66
11/26(N)Buffalo169L73-71
11/30Cornell180L101-72
12/3@Akron53L97-77
12/6UMBC254L73-66
12/9@Rider355W51-38
12/20(N)Iowa23L94-39
12/31@Holy Cross328L65-58
1/3Lehigh305W72-65
1/7@Navy178L76-55
1/10Loyola MD322W70-67
1/14Lafayette317W76-69
1/17@Colgate204L95-76
1/21Army337L87-84
1/24@Loyola MD322L67-62
1/26@Lafayette31736%
1/28@Lafayette317L81-79
1/31Boston Univ29251%
2/4@American Univ22117%
2/7Colgate20433%
2/9Navy17828%
2/14@Boston Univ29230%
2/18American Univ22135%
2/22Holy Cross32861%
2/25@Army33743%
2/28@Lehigh30533%