NCAA Tournament March Madness

#210 CS Northridge

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

They look like a team that will have to secure the Big West automatic because their résumé has flashes but no signature victory to carry an at-large case. High points such as home wins over UC Santa Barbara and Fresno State and a road triumph at Delaware show they can score and close games, but those wins come against underwhelming opposition compared with the damage done by heavy losses at Northern Iowa, North Dakota State and Idaho State and by road defeats at UC Irvine, Stanford and UC Davis. The remaining slate hands them meaningful chances to repair the profile with true road tests at UC Santa Barbara, Long Beach State and UC San Diego and a stretch of winnable home games against Cal Poly, UC Riverside and CS Bakersfield, so unless Northridge wins the headlining road games and then captures the conference crown their resume will read as short on the kind of quality wins a committee rewards.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Northern Iowa112L86-57
11/9@North Dakota280W93-85
11/11@N Dakota St120L90-68
11/16Troy113W94-85
11/26(N)Idaho190L78-64
11/28(N)Idaho St213L82-50
12/4CS Bakersfield303W87-66
12/6@UC Irvine118L85-71
12/10Fresno St138W89-87
12/13@Delaware281W88-66
12/22CS Sacramento285W100-88
12/27@Stanford81L88-80
1/1@UC Davis167L89-80
1/3UC Santa Barbara137W74-65
1/8Cal Poly269W95-90
1/10@CS Fullerton186L86-79
1/15@UC San Diego108W84-79
1/17Long Beach St236L87-80
1/24@Hawaii91L89-68
1/29UC Davis16752%
1/31UC San Diego10836%
2/5@Cal Poly26952%
2/7UC Riverside27674%
2/14Hawaii9131%
2/19@UC Santa Barbara13725%
2/21@Long Beach St23643%
2/26UC Irvine11840%
2/28@UC Riverside27653%
3/5@CS Bakersfield30360%
3/7CS Fullerton18656%