NCAA Tournament March Madness

#287 Brown

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Brown looks like a team that must win the Ivy's automatic berth because its nonconference body of work includes solid home wins over Holy Cross and Bryant and gritty road victories at Maine and New Hampshire but it lacks a marquee win and showed clear vulnerability away from home with losses at Boston University, Providence, Stony Brook and Rhode Island. Conference play produced damaging home setbacks to Yale, Penn and Cornell and road defeats at Yale and Harvard that undermine any at-large case, while its best moments — the home win over Princeton and the tight road triumph at Dartmouth — prove it can beat respectable peers. Given the accumulation of bad results against resume-damaging opponents and the absence of a signature triumph, the conference title is where Brown must solve its deficiencies to earn a tournament spot.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7Siena195L62-46
11/9Vermont235L89-84
11/12@Boston Univ254L90-77
11/14Hampton272L72-63
11/18Holy Cross330W68-49
11/20@Stony Brook229L80-70
11/23@Maine348W58-53
11/26@New Hampshire350W59-47
12/2@Rhode Island134L66-56
12/5Bryant355W75-56
12/9@Providence73L86-79
1/5Yale78L70-53
1/10@Penn163L81-73
1/17Columbia190W86-80
1/19Cornell159L89-67
1/24@Princeton251L63-53
1/30Harvard149L69-59
1/31Dartmouth274L77-70
2/6@Yale78L81-69
2/13@Harvard149L56-53
2/14@Dartmouth274W79-76
2/20Princeton251W80-71
2/27@Columbia190L80-62
2/28@Cornell159L86-80
3/6Penn163L82-61