NCAA Tournament March Madness

#190 Idaho

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Idaho’s profile has enough flashes to earn attention — a road knockout at Washington State and a hard-fought road victory at South Dakota State, a neutral-site win over Cal State Northridge, and a signature conference scalp of Montana State — but those bright results are neutralized by a few damaging defeats, including a lopsided neutral loss to Sam Houston and ugly setbacks to Cal State Bakersfield, Idaho State and Portland State that weaken any at-large case. The Vandals have shown they can win away from home yet have been inconsistent in similar spots, and a close road loss at Notre Dame and narrow nonconference reversals at San Diego and UC San Diego underline that they have not reliably beaten quality opponents away from Moscow. With tough remaining road tests at Montana State and Montana and several winnable conference dates left at home and on the road against the likes of Weber State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado and Eastern Washington, Idaho can still reshape this resume, but unless they clean up those bad losses the clearest path to the NCAA field is to secure the Big Sky’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Washington St140W83-81
11/12@San Diego196L78-74
11/15@UC San Diego108L75-67
11/26(N)CS Northridge210W78-64
11/28(N)Sam Houston St104L94-68
12/3North Dakota280W90-58
12/6@S Dakota St192W84-81
12/10@Notre Dame79L80-65
12/21@Cal Poly269W83-80
12/23@CS Bakersfield303L64-63
1/3E Washington233W84-81
1/8Montana151L79-73
1/10Montana St148W92-89
1/15@Idaho St213L76-68
1/17@Weber St203W75-67
1/22CS Sacramento285W86-76
1/24Portland St153L69-66
1/29@N Colorado18738%
1/31@Northern Arizona31667%
2/5@Montana St14830%
2/7@Montana15131%
2/12Weber St20364%
2/14Idaho St21365%
2/19@Portland St15331%
2/21@CS Sacramento28559%
2/26Northern Arizona31684%
2/28N Colorado18760%
3/2@E Washington23347%