NCAA Tournament March Madness

#210 Idaho

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Idaho’s resume hinges on a road victory at Washington State that proves the program can beat power-conference opposition away from home, but that marquee moment is undercut by a crushing neutral-site loss to Sam Houston State and road setbacks at San Diego and UC San Diego that expose persistent inconsistency outside its building. A comfortable home win over North Dakota and a neutral win over CS Northridge help the profile, yet the committee will fixate on the damage from those lopsided defeats and the thin body of quality road and neutral results. Upcoming chances at Notre Dame and South Dakota State and a gauntlet of conference trips to the likes of Montana, Montana State and Weber State offer clear pathways to repair the résumé if Idaho can replicate its Washington State performance away from home, but until that happens the picture reads as a team with a headline win and troubling blemishes that need to be erased.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Washington St165W83-81
11/12@San Diego269L78-74
11/15@UC San Diego97L75-67
11/26(N)CS Northridge240W78-64
11/28(N)Sam Houston St127L94-68
12/3North Dakota336W90-58
12/6@S Dakota St16331%
12/10@Notre Dame648%
12/21@Cal Poly22342%
12/23@CS Bakersfield28953%
1/3E Washington24768%
1/8Montana19558%
1/10Montana St15651%
1/14Idaho St17155%
1/15@Idaho St17133%
1/17@Weber St19036%
1/22CS Sacramento27972%
1/24Portland St16252%
1/29@N Colorado15329%
1/31@Northern Arizona26649%
2/5@Montana St15630%
2/7@Montana19536%
2/12Weber St19058%
2/14Idaho St17155%
2/19@Portland St16230%
2/21@CS Sacramento27951%
2/26Northern Arizona26670%
2/28N Colorado15351%
3/2@E Washington24746%