NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Penn

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#189 Penn

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Penn’s resume shows flashes but not enough signature work to feel secure, with solid road wins at Drexel and Dartmouth and steady conference home performances providing hope while a pair of bruising defeats at Providence and in a neutral-site game with Villanova and a handful of road setbacks at American, Rutgers, George Mason, Princeton and Harvard drag the profile down; those heavy losses and a home setback to Yale blunt the value of Penn’s better results and leave the club short on marquee victories. The remaining slate—home rematch with Princeton plus league trips to Columbia, Cornell and Yale and a home date with Columbia and Cornell—gives clear opportunities to build a résumé the committee respects, but without claiming the Ivy’s automatic berth the path to the national tournament remains uncertain.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/9	@American Univ	221	L84-78
11/11	@Providence	71	L106-81
11/17	St Joseph's PA	157	W83-74
11/21	@Drexel	212	W84-68
11/28	Merrimack	208	W77-65
11/29	La Salle	222	W73-71
11/30	Hofstra	115	L77-60
12/6	(N)Villanova	27	L90-63
12/8	Lafayette	317	W74-72
12/20	@Rutgers	155	L70-69
12/28	@George Mason	76	L83-79
12/31	NJIT	336	W80-61
1/5	@Princeton	224	L78-76
1/10	Brown	264	W81-73
1/17	@Dartmouth	240	W84-74
1/19	@Harvard	183	L64-63
1/24	Yale	70	L77-60
1/30	@Columbia	164	33%
1/31	@Cornell	180	37%
2/7	Princeton	224	68%
2/13	Columbia	164	55%
2/14	Cornell	180	59%
2/21	@Yale	70	12%
2/27	Dartmouth	240	69%
2/28	Harvard	183	60%
3/6	@Brown	264	55%