NCAA Tournament March Madness

#148 Boston College

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Boston College’s résumé reads like a team built on a stout defense but hamstrung by an inconsistent offense and a string of damaging losses, so its safest route to the NCAA tournament is the automatic bid. The resume lacks signature wins and the highlights are wins over league middling opponents and a road victory at Temple, while its low points include a baffling home loss to Central Connecticut and heavy defeats on the road at Louisville and Clemson plus setbacks to power conference foes such as NC State and LSU that will weigh heavily with the selection committee. The Eagles still have clear chances to improve with home dates against Stanford and California and a rematch with Notre Dame on the schedule, but several hostile trips to Notre Dame, Duke, Florida State and SMU make a sustained late-season surge unlikely, which is why winning the conference tournament is the most realistic path to the field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@FL Atlantic93L83-78
11/6Citadel352W76-47
11/11Central Conn268L60-59
11/15@Temple144W76-71
11/18Hampton243W63-52
11/21(N)Davidson131L59-49
11/23(N)Tulane190L93-90
11/26Harvard171W73-60
12/3LSU42L78-69
12/6New Haven338W67-63
12/10(N)Massachusetts183L76-74
12/22F Dickinson344W72-61
12/28Le Moyne266W72-64
1/3@Georgia Tech127L65-53
1/6NC State27L79-71
1/10@Louisville16L75-62
1/13@Clemson28L74-50
1/17Syracuse71W81-73
1/21Pittsburgh98W65-62
1/24@Notre Dame8120%
1/31Virginia129%
2/3@Duke31%
2/7Miami FL3722%
2/11Stanford7637%
2/14California7537%
2/17@Florida St10528%
2/21@SMU318%
2/24Wake Forest7035%
2/28@Miami FL379%
3/3@Virginia Tech5614%
3/7Notre Dame8139%