NCAA Tournament March Madness

#277 Dartmouth

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Dartmouth’s résumé is built around a couple of standout moments and some damaging nonconference slips, and that contrast is what drives the projection. The team’s most persuasive wins came in a decisive neutral-site victory at St. Peter’s and a narrow home win over New Hampshire, but those highlights are offset by poor nonconference results to Marist, a road loss at Bryant and a defeat at Appalachian State that weaken the body of work. The selection committee will weight road and neutral success heavily, so upcoming high-profile road tests at Wyoming, Colorado State and Florida are the primary opportunities to add a marquee win, while the Ivy slate — trips to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cornell plus home games against Harvard, Yale, Brown, Penn and Princeton — gives Dartmouth multiple chances to rebuild momentum. Until those opportunities are seized, the résumé remains defined by the gap between those two clean wins and the midseason setbacks.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9Marist152L75-56
11/12@Bryant312L82-75
11/16Appalachian St296L85-77
11/29@St Peter's330W87-61
12/3New Hampshire346W69-68
12/6@Wyoming10711%
12/9@Colorado St675%
12/13Boston Univ24957%
12/16@Holy Cross30647%
12/19@Sacred Heart27539%
12/29@Florida121%
1/5@Harvard20127%
1/10@Cornell15921%
1/17Penn22553%
1/19Princeton25558%
1/24Columbia13432%
1/30@Yale776%
1/31@Brown22832%
2/7Harvard20148%
2/13Yale7716%
2/14Brown22853%
2/21@Columbia13415%
2/27@Penn22531%
2/28@Princeton25536%
3/7Cornell15940%