NCAA Tournament March Madness

#224 Cal Poly

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cal Poly’s résumé is built around a handful of meaningful wins away from home, including victories at Seattle and Utah and a gritty road triumph at Cal State Fullerton that demonstrate the ability to win outside the friendly confines. Those bright spots are undercut by an ugly loss at USC and nonconference setbacks at Colorado State and Montana along with a neutral-site defeat to Southeast Missouri State, and those kinds of bad losses are exactly the things committees remember. The remaining conference slate offers clear opportunities to repair the resume with home dates against UC Riverside and UC Davis, a rematch with Cal State Fullerton, and several important road tests at UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, Long Beach State, Cal State Northridge, and Cal State Bakersfield, so the team’s profile will depend on whether it can string together wins away from home or in neutral settings to neutralize the damage from earlier losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@USC28L94-64
11/8@Seattle111W73-71
11/12@Colorado St69L93-79
11/14@Montana195L90-82
11/20@Utah121W92-85
11/24@Northern Arizona265L93-87
11/25(N)SE Missouri St243L84-68
12/4@CS Fullerton286W94-91
12/6UC Riverside26768%
12/16Montana St15548%
12/19@UCLA333%
12/21Idaho20958%
1/1UC San Diego9729%
1/3@Long Beach St27047%
1/8@CS Northridge24041%
1/10UC Davis16450%
1/15Hawaii9929%
1/22@UC Santa Barbara14724%
1/24CS Fullerton28671%
1/29@CS Bakersfield28950%
1/31@UC Riverside26746%
2/5CS Northridge24064%
2/7@UC Davis16428%
2/12UC Irvine12537%
2/14UC Santa Barbara14744%
2/19@Hawaii9913%
2/20@Hawaii9913%
2/26Long Beach St27068%
2/28@UC San Diego9713%
3/5@UC Irvine12519%
3/7CS Bakersfield28971%