NCAA Tournament March Madness

#281 Denver

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Denver’s resume features signature road wins at Montana State and Colorado State and a gritty home victory over Eastern Washington, but those bright spots are offset by damaging blowouts at Arizona and Wyoming along with losses at Seattle, Washington and a nonconference setback to UT San Antonio, and those lopsided defeats have exposed defensive weaknesses that undercut otherwise respectable offensive performances. The remaining slate gives clear chances to repair the profile with home dates against Missouri KC and NE Omaha and road opportunities at Oral Roberts, S Dakota St, N Dakota St and St Thomas MN as well as matchups at Tulsa and N Colorado that should produce clean wins if handled properly. Put simply, taking care of the manageable conference opponents and avoiding more ugly results away from home is the path back into comfortable consideration, while failing to do that will leave the early losses and defensive lapses as the dominant narrative.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Seattle111L84-73
11/6@Washington59L84-70
11/9@Montana St156W75-73
11/15UT San Antonio260L84-79
11/21@Colorado St67W83-81
11/24@Arizona9L103-73
11/26@Wyoming107L101-59
12/3E Washington247W93-89
12/6@Idaho St17122%
12/13CS Fullerton28763%
12/20@N Colorado15320%
12/22@Tulsa847%
12/31Missouri KC34277%
1/3@St Thomas MN18223%
1/4@St Thomas MN18223%
1/8@S Dakota St16321%
1/10@South Dakota27838%
1/14Oral Roberts30567%
1/22N Dakota St14937%
1/24North Dakota33675%
1/28@Missouri KC34258%
1/31NE Omaha26459%
2/5@N Dakota St14918%
2/7@North Dakota33655%
2/12S Dakota St16340%
2/14@NE Omaha26437%
2/19South Dakota27860%
2/21St Thomas MN18244%
2/26@Oral Roberts30546%