NCAA Tournament March Madness

#133 Cal Baptist

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cal Baptist’s profile reads like a team that has flashes of quality but not enough signature résumé-building work to feel safe on at-large merit, with its best moments coming on the road at Oregon State and in wins at UC Irvine and a neutral-site triumph over San Diego, while its worst moments include a heavy neutral loss to BYU and tough defeats at Colorado and on the road in conference that undercut those bright spots. The nonconference body of work shows the ability to win away from home but lacks multiple true top-tier scalps, and the cluster of damaging road losses in league play has made the resume fragile. The schedule ahead gives clear opportunities to repair the profile, with a mix of home dates against Tarleton State and Abilene Christian and road tests at Southern Utah, Utah Tech, UT Arlington and Utah Valley, but unless Cal Baptist converts those chances into a run that beats the better conference opponents away from home they will likely need the conference’s automatic berth to reach the big dance.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3SC Upstate298W87-75
11/7@UC Irvine118W69-61
11/14W Illinois357W69-59
11/18UC Riverside276W80-57
11/21Grambling279W72-59
11/25(N)San Diego196W76-61
11/29@Oregon St214W75-69
12/1@Colorado80L78-70
12/3(N)BYU15L91-60
12/6@Utah114L91-85
12/12@E Washington233W88-83
12/16Southern Univ263W75-67
12/20CS Sacramento285W74-67
12/29@Utah Valley106L73-66
1/1@UT Arlington143L63-51
1/3@Tarleton St182L81-76
1/8Utah Tech215W84-72
1/10Southern Utah278W58-55
1/15@Abilene Chr253W74-58
1/21Utah Tech215W73-64
1/24Utah Valley106W78-71
1/31@UT Arlington14342%
2/5Tarleton St18272%
2/7Abilene Chr25383%
2/12@Southern Utah27871%
2/14@Utah Tech21557%
2/19@Utah Valley10631%
2/26UT Arlington14364%
2/28Tarleton St18272%
3/5Abilene Chr25383%
3/7@Southern Utah27871%