NCAA Tournament March Madness

#201 Harvard

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Harvard’s resume is uneven, built around a few sturdy moments and a handful of damaging setbacks. Its best results — road wins at Army and Marist and a home victory over Bryant — and a competitive trip to Penn State provide the kind of road cred committees respect, but those are offset by ugly losses at Northeastern and at Boston College and a late neutral-site defeat to Boston University that sting when top wins are thin. A nonconference trip to St John’s and additional road dates at Furman and Colgate are the clearest paths to a signature scalp while the Ivy slate and home dates against Dartmouth, Princeton, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Yale and Columbia offer multiple chances to shore up the résumé. What will decide matters most is whether Harvard can add a true road or neutral signature or avoid further bad losses in conference play, because that balance determines how much the current profile can be improved.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9New Hampshire346W86-75
11/11Northeastern229L77-60
11/15@Army348W75-52
11/16@Marist152W56-54
11/19@Penn St96L84-80
11/22(N)Boston Univ249L75-74
11/26@Boston College124L73-60
11/29Bryant312W56-53
12/3@Massachusetts187L78-71
12/6@Furman15531%
12/20Holy Cross30679%
12/23@St John's152%
12/28@Colgate16432%
1/5Dartmouth27773%
1/10@Columbia13424%
1/17Princeton25570%
1/19Penn22566%
1/24Cornell15953%
1/30@Brown22844%
1/31@Yale7711%
2/7@Dartmouth27752%
2/13Brown22866%
2/14Yale7725%
2/21@Cornell15932%
2/27@Princeton25549%
2/28@Penn22544%
3/7Columbia13444%