NCAA Tournament March Madness

#267 UC Riverside

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UC Riverside’s resume is shaped by a handful of meaningful road wins and a string of damaging losses that explain where it sits. The team showed it can win away with victories at North Dakota and at San Diego and it picked up a home win over Grambling, but those bright spots are undercut by heavy defeats at Cal Baptist and by road losses at New Mexico, UC Irvine and Utah Tech that expose struggles against stronger opposition. Dropping a home game to North Dakota after beating that same opponent on the road highlights the inconsistency that matters most to a committee. With high-visibility road trips to BYU and UCLA on the horizon and a Big West schedule that pairs winnable home dates against Cal Poly and CS Fullerton with difficult assignments at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State, the resume will depend on protecting the home court, earning at least one resume-changing road or neutral win and avoiding any more damaging losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@North Dakota336W74-70
11/11@New Mexico110L82-68
11/15North Dakota336L76-74
11/18@Cal Baptist136L80-57
11/21@San Diego269W85-71
11/24Grambling284W83-74
11/29@Utah Tech241L77-69
12/4@UC Irvine125L73-60
12/6@Cal Poly22332%
12/13@BYU101%
12/20@St Thomas MN18225%
12/23@UCLA332%
1/1Hawaii10124%
1/8@CS Bakersfield28943%
1/10UC San Diego9723%
1/15@Long Beach St27040%
1/17CS Fullerton28765%
1/22UC Irvine12531%
1/24@UC Davis16623%
1/29Long Beach St27062%
1/31Cal Poly22354%
2/5@CS Fullerton28742%
2/7@CS Northridge24035%
2/12UC Santa Barbara14737%
2/14@UC San Diego9710%
2/19CS Bakersfield28965%
2/21UC Davis16642%
2/26@UC Santa Barbara14719%
2/28CS Northridge24057%
3/5@Hawaii10110%
3/6@Hawaii10110%