NCAA Tournament March Madness

#255 Princeton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Princeton’s nonconference slate reads like a stress test that exposed clear strengths and weaknesses, with comfortable victories over Bucknell and Northeastern and competitive neutral-site showings against Temple, Vermont and St. Joseph’s standing as the team’s best moments, while heavy defeats at Akron, Kansas and Iona and a lopsided neutral loss to Bradley are the kind of damaging results that a committee will not forget. The defense has shown steadiness in those better outings but the offense has been inconsistent, particularly away from home where losses at Monmouth and other road setbacks have left the resume with more holes than it would like. What remains important are the upcoming chances to repair that profile, notably a difficult road trip to Loyola-Chicago, another road game at Temple and league tests at Harvard and Yale where strong performances on the road or in neutral settings would go a long way toward offsetting the bad losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Akron60L104-69
11/11Bucknell315W73-63
11/15@Kansas18L76-57
11/18@Iona184L89-69
11/20Northeastern229W70-57
11/24(N)Bradley129L88-64
11/25(N)Temple157L79-75
11/26(N)Vermont209L79-74
11/30(N)St Joseph's PA181L60-58
12/3@Monmouth NJ213L63-58
12/6@Loyola-Chicago28844%
12/10Merrimack28566%
12/22@Temple15723%
12/30Vermont20952%
1/5Penn22556%
1/10Yale7718%
1/17@Harvard20130%
1/19@Dartmouth27742%
1/24Brown22856%
1/30@Cornell15923%
1/31@Columbia13417%
2/7@Penn22534%
2/13Cornell15943%
2/14Columbia13434%
2/20@Brown22834%
2/27Harvard20151%
2/28Dartmouth27764%
3/7@Yale777%