NCAA Tournament March Madness

#80 Colorado

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Projection: likely out

Colorado's résumé reads like a team that can light up the scoreboard but struggles to protect it against quality opponents, with signature neutral wins over Washington and San Francisco and a road victory at Arizona State and the home win over Providence providing the flashes of quality the committee wants to see, while ugly results such as the home loss to Northern Colorado and road setbacks at Cincinnati and West Virginia plus a nonconference defeat to UCF and a loss at Kansas have inflicted real damage. The offense has produced in moments and kept Colorado competitive against the league's better teams yet the defense has been inconsistent enough that several road tests turned into clear defeats rather than resume-building statements. Upcoming conference road dates at Baylor, Texas Tech, BYU and Houston and home chances against TCU and Arizona State are the remaining forks in the road; unless Colorado turns one of those into a true signature win it will be hard to leap fully back onto the right side of the bubble.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Montana St148W84-78
11/8E Washington233W102-97
11/14Providence71W97-88
11/17Alabama St313W94-66
11/21UC Davis167W95-79
11/27(N)San Francisco102W79-69
11/28(N)Washington48W81-68
12/1Cal Baptist133W78-70
12/6@Colorado St95L91-86
12/13UT San Antonio348W88-64
12/17Portland St153W84-73
12/20(N)Stanford81L77-68
12/28N Colorado187L86-81
1/3@Arizona St78W95-89
1/7Utah114W85-73
1/10Texas Tech18L73-71
1/14@Cincinnati56L77-68
1/17@West Virginia58L72-61
1/20Kansas14L75-69
1/24UCF45L95-86
1/29@Iowa St56%
2/1TCU5147%
2/4@Baylor5229%
2/7Arizona St7860%
2/11@Texas Tech1811%
2/14@BYU1510%
2/21Oklahoma St7256%
2/25Kansas St8663%
2/28@Houston66%
3/3@Utah11451%
3/7Arizona19%