NCAA Tournament March Madness
#125 UC Irvine
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Projection: need to automatically qualify
UC Irvine’s resume is anchored by a stingy defense but hampered by an inconsistent offense, a combination that produced a resume-building neutral win over South Dakota State and a useful road victory at San Jose State while also yielding a neutral setback to New Mexico State and narrow defeats at Utah Valley and versus Northern Iowa that leave little margin for error. The remaining slate offers clear paths to strengthen the case with home dates against Belmont and CS Northridge and road tests at Hawaii and UC Santa Barbara, and how the team performs away from home and in those high-visibility conference matchups will determine whether its good defensive identity can outweigh the damage from nonconference slips.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/7 | Cal Baptist | 136 | L69-61 |
| 11/15 | Weber St | 190 | W79-70 |
| 11/19 | @Utah Valley | 89 | L79-72 |
| 11/22 | Northern Iowa | 91 | L70-69 |
| 11/25 | (N)New Mexico St | 119 | L57-45 |
| 11/26 | (N)S Dakota St | 163 | W64-52 |
| 11/30 | @San Jose St | 186 | W72-63 |
| 12/4 | UC Riverside | 267 | W73-60 |
| 12/6 | CS Northridge | 240 | 83% |
| 12/19 | Belmont | 85 | 47% |
| 12/21 | (N)N Dakota St | 149 | 58% |
| 1/1 | @CS Bakersfield | 289 | 72% |
| 1/3 | @CS Fullerton | 287 | 72% |
| 1/8 | Long Beach St | 270 | 86% |
| 1/10 | @Hawaii | 101 | 31% |
| 1/11 | @Hawaii | 101 | 31% |
| 1/17 | @UC Davis | 166 | 51% |
| 1/22 | @UC Riverside | 267 | 69% |
| 1/24 | @UC San Diego | 97 | 30% |
| 1/29 | Hawaii | 101 | 52% |
| 2/5 | CS Bakersfield | 289 | 88% |
| 2/7 | @UC Santa Barbara | 147 | 46% |
| 2/12 | @Cal Poly | 223 | 62% |
| 2/14 | CS Fullerton | 287 | 87% |
| 2/19 | @Long Beach St | 270 | 70% |
| 2/21 | UC San Diego | 97 | 52% |
| 2/26 | @CS Northridge | 240 | 65% |
| 2/28 | UC Santa Barbara | 147 | 68% |
| 3/5 | Cal Poly | 223 | 81% |
| 3/7 | UC Davis | 166 | 72% |