NCAA Tournament March Madness
#77 Yale
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Projected seed: 10 (automatic qualifier)
Yale’s resume is anchored by meaningful road victories at Akron and Vermont and by neutral-site wins over Wisconsin Green Bay and College of Charleston, which show an offense that can carry the club away from home while a loss to Rhode Island underscores defensive inconsistency. The upcoming road trip to Alabama is the season’s clearest chance for a marquee victory and the remaining Ivy League stretch, including trips to Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and Columbia along with a home meeting with Princeton, provides a straightforward path to polish the profile. Because of the combination of strong away and neutral results, a damaging loss that needs erasing, and a league slate that still offers controlled opportunities, the committee’s placement of Yale reflects a team with solid credentials yet vulnerable to late setbacks.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/7 | @Navy | 192 | W97-68 |
| 11/11 | @Quinnipiac | 148 | W97-60 |
| 11/15 | Stony Brook | 219 | W86-79 |
| 11/18 | Rhode Island | 95 | L86-77 |
| 11/21 | (N)WI Green Bay | 272 | W73-67 |
| 11/23 | (N)Col Charleston | 188 | W74-63 |
| 11/24 | (N)Akron | 57 | W97-94 |
| 11/30 | @Vermont | 209 | W77-74 |
| 12/7 | IL Chicago | 199 | 89% |
| 12/10 | (N)SUNY Albany | 316 | 94% |
| 12/29 | @Alabama | 12 | 11% |
| 1/5 | @Brown | 229 | 79% |
| 1/10 | @Princeton | 255 | 82% |
| 1/17 | Cornell | 158 | 85% |
| 1/19 | Columbia | 134 | 79% |
| 1/24 | @Penn | 224 | 78% |
| 1/30 | Dartmouth | 276 | 94% |
| 1/31 | Harvard | 201 | 89% |
| 2/6 | Brown | 229 | 91% |
| 2/9 | @Howard | 312 | 89% |
| 2/13 | @Dartmouth | 276 | 84% |
| 2/14 | @Harvard | 201 | 75% |
| 2/21 | Penn | 224 | 91% |
| 2/27 | @Cornell | 158 | 68% |
| 2/28 | @Columbia | 134 | 59% |
| 3/7 | Princeton | 255 | 93% |