NCAA Tournament March Madness

#209 Vermont

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Vermont’s resume is built around a couple of genuine road and neutral-site statements that show it can win away from home, with victories at Brown and Northeastern and a neutral-site triumph at Princeton standing out, but those bright spots are offset by damaging results that raise questions about consistency, most notably a lopsided trip to Oregon State, neutral losses to Liberty and Rhode Island, and setbacks at Buffalo and against Yale that suggest the defense can be exposed against higher-level competition. The schedule has not featured many marquee scalps, so the best wins are solid but not eye-catching, while the worst losses are the kind that selection committees remember when weighing résumé durability. That balance leaves Vermont in a position where road and neutral success matters a great deal, and forthcoming chances at Pepperdine and a return visit to Princeton along with a series of conference games against New Hampshire, Maine, Binghamton, NJIT and others give the team clear opportunities to either pad a résumé that already shows road toughness or to compound earlier damage if it stumbles away from home.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9@Brown229W89-84
11/15@Northeastern230W85-74
11/18@Buffalo208L94-90
11/24(N)Liberty104L79-73
11/25(N)Rhode Island95L80-65
11/26(N)Princeton255W79-74
11/30Yale77L77-74
12/3@Oregon St178L80-58
12/6@Pepperdine28653%
12/14Merrimack28474%
12/17Siena15050%
12/20Iona18357%
12/30@Princeton25547%
1/3@New Hampshire34670%
1/8Binghamton34987%
1/15Maine32581%
1/19@SUNY Albany31660%
1/22@MA Lowell31158%
1/24@Bryant31359%
1/29UMBC27972%
1/31NJIT35088%
2/5@Maine32563%
2/7New Hampshire34686%
2/12@Binghamton34972%
2/14Bryant31379%
2/19@UMBC27951%
2/21@NJIT35073%
2/26MA Lowell31178%
3/3SUNY Albany31679%