NCAA Tournament March Madness

#2 Arizona

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Projected seed: 1 (automatic qualifier)

Arizona’s résumé is built around a parade of signature neutral-site victories over Florida, UCLA, Alabama, San Diego State, Iowa State, and Houston and by road wins at Connecticut, Baylor, BYU, and Houston that show it can win outside Tucson. The only real blemishes are close setbacks at Kansas and at Texas Tech, but those look like exceptions next to an otherwise dominant ledger that includes comfortable blowouts of lesser opponents and a statement home win over Kansas. To cement a top seed Arizona simply needs to keep piling up neutral-site and road wins and avoid another narrow defeat so the handful of close losses don’t knock down a résumé full of marquee results.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)Florida4W93-87
11/7Utah Tech188W93-67
11/11Northern Arizona319W84-49
11/14(N)UCLA27W69-65
11/19@Connecticut11W71-67
11/24Denver234W103-73
11/29Norfolk St327W98-61
12/6Auburn38W97-68
12/13(N)Alabama18W96-75
12/16Abilene Chr242W96-62
12/20(N)San Diego St48W68-45
12/22Bethune-Cookman243W107-71
12/29S Dakota St220W99-71
1/3@Utah126W97-78
1/7Kansas St101W101-76
1/10@TCU43W86-73
1/14Arizona St67W89-82
1/17@UCF54W84-77
1/21Cincinnati44W77-51
1/24West Virginia59W88-53
1/26@BYU23W86-83
1/31@Arizona St67W87-74
2/7Oklahoma St66W84-47
2/9@Kansas21L82-78
2/14Texas Tech20L78-75
2/18BYU23W75-68
2/21@Houston5W73-66
2/24@Baylor49W87-80
2/28Kansas21W84-61
3/2Iowa St6W73-57
3/7@Colorado70W89-79
3/12(N)UCF54W81-59
3/13(N)Iowa St6W82-80
3/14(N)Houston5W79-74