NCAA Tournament March Madness
#70 Yale
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Projected seed: 12 (automatic qualifier)
Yale’s placement as the automatic qualifier makes sense because its résumé pairs eye-catching neutral-site and road wins with a strong Ivy foundation, showing it can win away from home and in tournament-like settings with neutral wins over Green Bay, Charleston and Akron and road triumphs at Navy and Quinnipiac. The offense has repeatedly shown it can score in bunches while the defense was exposed by the heavy loss at Alabama and the road defeat at Princeton, the latter a blemish inside the league picture. Dominant home results against Cornell and Columbia and a gritty road victory at Penn give the Bulldogs a reliable Ivy core, and a sequence of winnable conference games to finish, capped by a return matchup with Princeton, gives Yale a clear opportunity to lock up or even enhance this standing if it closes out those chances.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/7 | @Navy | 178 | W97-68 |
| 11/11 | @Quinnipiac | 181 | W97-60 |
| 11/15 | Stony Brook | 241 | W86-79 |
| 11/18 | Rhode Island | 103 | L86-77 |
| 11/21 | (N)WI Green Bay | 226 | W73-67 |
| 11/23 | (N)Col Charleston | 171 | W74-63 |
| 11/24 | (N)Akron | 53 | W97-94 |
| 11/30 | @Vermont | 209 | W77-74 |
| 12/7 | IL Chicago | 136 | W80-66 |
| 12/10 | (N)SUNY Albany | 304 | W93-82 |
| 12/29 | @Alabama | 17 | L102-78 |
| 1/5 | @Brown | 264 | W70-53 |
| 1/10 | @Princeton | 224 | L76-60 |
| 1/17 | Cornell | 180 | W102-68 |
| 1/19 | Columbia | 164 | W91-74 |
| 1/24 | @Penn | 189 | W77-60 |
| 1/30 | Dartmouth | 240 | 92% |
| 1/31 | Harvard | 183 | 88% |
| 2/6 | Brown | 264 | 94% |
| 2/9 | @Howard | 272 | 86% |
| 2/13 | @Dartmouth | 240 | 80% |
| 2/14 | @Harvard | 183 | 72% |
| 2/21 | Penn | 189 | 88% |
| 2/27 | @Cornell | 180 | 71% |
| 2/28 | @Columbia | 164 | 68% |
| 3/7 | Princeton | 224 | 91% |