NCAA Tournament March Madness

#45 Baylor

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Projection: next four out

Baylor’s profile reads like a borderline tournament résumé because it pairs impressive neutral-site wins and a gritty road victory with a string of damaging losses that a committee would notice, including bad defeats at home and road setbacks at power conference venues; the neutral wins over Creighton and San Diego State and the road triumph at Oklahoma State are the résumé’s best moments and prove the team can win outside its building, while the home setbacks to Houston and Texas Tech and the losses at Memphis, Kansas and to Iowa State expose inconsistency and subtract from the résumé’s polish; the neutral loss to St John’s further underscores that volatility. Remaining games at Kansas State, Arizona State and Arizona, plus road dates at UCF and Houston and a home opportunity against Utah, offer clear paths to repair the profile, but until Baylor converts those chances against recognizable opponents it sits just outside the field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3UTRGV135W96-81
11/9Washington47W78-69
11/14Tarleton St211W94-81
11/24(N)Creighton78W81-74
11/25(N)St John's21L96-81
11/26(N)San Diego St41W91-81
12/2CS Sacramento258W110-88
12/6@Memphis99L78-71
12/10Norfolk St310W97-67
12/19Alcorn St345W113-56
12/21Southern Univ270W111-67
1/3@TCU50L69-63
1/7Iowa St7L70-60
1/10Houston4L77-55
1/13@Oklahoma St63W94-79
1/16@Kansas15L80-62
1/20Texas Tech16L92-73
1/24TCU50L97-90
1/28@Cincinnati51L67-57
1/31@West Virginia56W63-53
2/4Colorado72W86-67
2/7@Iowa St7L72-69
2/10BYU22L99-94
2/14(N)Louisville14L82-71
2/17@Kansas St10163%
2/21Arizona St7073%
2/24Arizona318%
2/28@UCF5244%
3/4@Houston49%
3/7Utah11986%