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 Dakota | 336 | W74-70 |
| 11/11 | @New Mexico | 110 | L82-68 |
| 11/15 | North Dakota | 336 | L76-74 |
| 11/18 | @Cal Baptist | 136 | L80-57 |
| 11/21 | @San Diego | 269 | W85-71 |
| 11/24 | Grambling | 284 | W83-74 |
| 11/29 | @Utah Tech | 241 | L77-69 |
| 12/4 | @UC Irvine | 124 | L73-60 |
| 12/6 | @Cal Poly | 223 | 32% |
| 12/13 | @BYU | 10 | 1% |
| 12/20 | @St Thomas MN | 182 | 25% |
| 12/23 | @UCLA | 33 | 2% |
| 1/1 | Hawaii | 100 | 24% |
| 1/8 | @CS Bakersfield | 289 | 43% |
| 1/10 | UC San Diego | 97 | 23% |
| 1/15 | @Long Beach St | 272 | 40% |
| 1/17 | CS Fullerton | 287 | 65% |
| 1/22 | UC Irvine | 124 | 31% |
| 1/24 | @UC Davis | 165 | 23% |
| 1/29 | Long Beach St | 272 | 62% |
| 1/31 | Cal Poly | 223 | 54% |
| 2/5 | @CS Fullerton | 287 | 42% |
| 2/7 | @CS Northridge | 239 | 35% |
| 2/12 | UC Santa Barbara | 147 | 37% |
| 2/14 | @UC San Diego | 97 | 10% |
| 2/19 | CS Bakersfield | 289 | 65% |
| 2/21 | UC Davis | 165 | 42% |
| 2/26 | @UC Santa Barbara | 147 | 19% |
| 2/28 | CS Northridge | 239 | 57% |
| 3/5 | @Hawaii | 100 | 10% |
| 3/6 | @Hawaii | 100 | 10% |