NCAA Tournament March Madness

#71 Arizona St

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Projection: likely out

Arizona State’s profile has bright moments that demonstrate upside, like a neutral-site victory over Texas, a clutch neutral win over Santa Clara and resume-boosting victories over Kansas State and Oklahoma State, but those highlights are overwhelmed by damaging results away from home and on neutral courts, including losses at BYU and Houston, defeats at Arizona and UCLA and ugly neutral setbacks to Gonzaga and USC. Committees prize quality road and neutral victories and protection from bad losses and right now Arizona State lacks enough of the former to counteract the latter. Upcoming conference tests at Baylor and at TCU, a home date with Texas Tech and trips to Kansas and Iowa State plus a matchup with Utah give the team clear paths to improve, yet until it turns those into marquee wins and avoids more lopsided defeats the projection that it misses the tournament makes sense.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Southern Utah266W81-64
11/9Utah Tech184W81-66
11/14Gonzaga10L77-65
11/17Georgia St293W75-62
11/20@Hawaii91W83-76
11/24(N)Texas35W87-86
11/25(N)Washington St133W100-94
11/26(N)USC49L88-75
12/6(N)Oklahoma54W86-70
12/9Northern Arizona313W73-48
12/13(N)Santa Clara39W82-79
12/17@UCLA41L90-77
12/21Oregon St180L78-75
1/3Colorado73L95-89
1/7@BYU22L104-76
1/10Kansas St101W87-84
1/14@Arizona3L89-82
1/18@Houston4L103-73
1/21West Virginia55L75-63
1/24Cincinnati51W82-68
1/27@UCF53L79-76
1/31Arizona3L87-74
2/4@Utah127W71-63
2/7@Colorado73L78-70
2/10Oklahoma St62W85-76
2/17Texas Tech1625%
2/21@Baylor4427%
2/24@TCU5031%
2/28Utah12778%
3/3Kansas1524%
3/7@Iowa St76%