NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Dartmouth

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#240 Dartmouth

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Dartmouth’s profile reads like a résumé built around a few genuine road scalps and a string of ugly defeats, so the clearest path to the NCAA Tournament is through the Ivy automatic bid. The program’s best moments — a decisive road win at St Peter’s and gritty victories away at Harvard and Cornell — prove the team can win outside of its own gym against respectable opponents, but those are offset by damaging losses at Florida, Wyoming and Colorado State and a flat outing at Sacred Heart that would cripple an at-large argument. With the remaining Ivy slate featuring pivotal road tests at Yale and Columbia and winnable home dates against Harvard and Cornell, Dartmouth can repair the damage by winning the league race and then the conference tournament, because resume builders are concentrated in those remaining conference showdowns and neutral-site opportunities.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/9	Marist	162	L75-56
11/12	@Bryant	349	L82-75
11/16	Appalachian St	216	L85-77
11/29	@St Peter's	238	W87-61
12/3	New Hampshire	315	W69-68
12/6	@Wyoming	111	L93-80
12/9	@Colorado St	95	L76-55
12/13	Boston Univ	292	W77-64
12/16	@Holy Cross	328	W89-64
12/19	@Sacred Heart	286	L85-63
12/29	@Florida	8	L94-72
1/5	@Harvard	183	W76-68
1/10	@Cornell	180	W102-91
1/17	Penn	189	L84-74
1/19	Princeton	224	W71-69
1/24	Columbia	164	L79-69
1/30	@Yale	70	8%
1/31	@Brown	264	46%
2/7	Harvard	183	51%
2/13	Yale	70	20%
2/14	Brown	264	67%
2/21	@Columbia	164	25%
2/27	@Penn	189	31%
2/28	@Princeton	224	37%
3/7	Cornell	180	50%