NCAA Tournament March Madness

#100 Nevada

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Projection: likely out

Nevada’s résumé is built on comfortable home and neutral wins over midmajor opponents like Louisiana Tech, San Francisco and UC Santa Barbara that show the Pack can dominate lesser competition. Those positives are undermined by damaging blemishes, most glaringly a road loss at Santa Clara and a home loss to UC Davis that read as bad losses, plus a neutral-site defeat to Washington that highlights trouble beating higher-end teams away from home. Road inconsistency is an issue since the roster has yet to produce a resume-changing road or neutral victory to erase those strikes. The conference slate still presents chances to add quality wins on the road at Boise State, San Diego State and Utah State and to collect resume-friendly home victories, but it also contains obvious traps where another poor result would deepen doubts. Taken together the profile shows useful midmajor wins but not the upper-tier scalps and reliable road performance that committees prize, even as upcoming games offer clear opportunities to alter that judgment.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Louisiana Tech194W77-50
11/8Pacific130W78-77
11/12S Illinois133W86-81
11/15@Santa Clara49L98-83
11/18UC Davis166L75-71
11/22UC Santa Barbara147W77-64
11/27(N)Washington59L83-66
11/28(N)San Francisco105W81-65
12/2UC San Diego97W76-70
12/7@Washington St16560%
12/13Duquesne14273%
12/20Boise St6246%
12/30@Colorado St6727%
1/3@Fresno St16059%
1/6San Diego St4741%
1/10Wyoming10764%
1/14@Utah St4320%
1/17@Air Force33187%
1/20San Jose St18682%
1/24@New Mexico11042%
1/27Grand Canyon10363%
1/30UNLV13973%
2/3@Boise St6225%
2/7Fresno St16079%
2/14@San Diego St4721%
2/17@San Jose St18664%
2/21Utah St4339%
2/24New Mexico11064%
2/28@UNLV13952%
3/3@Wyoming10742%
3/7Air Force33195%