NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Cornell

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#180 Cornell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cornell's profile reads like an offense-first team that produced eye-catching road wins at Bucknell, Brown and Harvard and a tense home victory over Colgate, but those bright spots are offset by lopsided road setbacks at Michigan State, Yale and Kent and damaging home losses to Columbia and Dartmouth that expose a porous defense and blunt any at-large narrative. The remaining Ivy slate against Princeton, Penn and Columbia with return trips to Princeton and Penn and another meeting with Harvard is the obvious avenue to the big dance because sweeping those league battles would erase the bad losses and give the resume the kind of head-to-head and road success committees reward while falling short would leave the Tigers relying on an otherwise thin body of work.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/7	@Kent	139	L110-102
11/9	@Illinois St	84	L76-65
11/13	@Lafayette	317	W97-78
11/18	Army	337	W86-73
11/20	Colgate	204	W95-94
11/30	@Bucknell	327	W101-72
12/2	@George Mason	76	L99-81
12/3	@Towson	168	L93-80
12/7	@Samford	249	L93-90
12/21	@SUNY Albany	304	W83-75
12/29	@Michigan St	7	L114-97
1/5	Columbia	164	L104-99
1/10	Dartmouth	240	L102-91
1/17	@Yale	70	L102-68
1/19	@Brown	264	W89-67
1/24	@Harvard	183	W86-79
1/30	Princeton	224	70%
1/31	Penn	189	63%
2/7	@Columbia	164	36%
2/13	@Princeton	224	48%
2/14	@Penn	189	41%
2/21	Harvard	183	62%
2/27	Yale	70	29%
2/28	Brown	264	77%
3/7	@Dartmouth	240	50%