NCAA Tournament March Madness

#331 Bucknell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Bucknell's resume makes it clear that the club will need to win the Patriot League tournament because its positive results are modest and its negative results are damaging: solid road wins at Mt St Mary's and Rider and gritty league victories over Loyola Maryland, Lafayette and Army plus a high-scoring home win over Boston University are real but limited, while lopsided road defeats at Pittsburgh, St John's and Iowa and humbling nonconference setbacks at Princeton, Cornell and Akron along with bad conference losses at Colgate and Navy have done serious resume damage. The absence of meaningful neutral-site blowouts against the likes of Bowling Green or Buffalo and uneven play away from home leave too few signature moments for a committee to comfortably extend an at-large invite, so the automatic conference berth is the clearest path to the Big Dance.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Delaware293W78-70
11/7@Mt St Mary's277W73-62
11/11@Princeton252L73-63
11/14Hofstra87L83-77
11/17@Pittsburgh94L84-50
11/20@St John's17L97-49
11/24(N)Bowling Green147L71-66
11/26(N)Buffalo199L73-71
11/30Cornell164L101-72
12/3@Akron64L97-77
12/6UMBC185L73-66
12/9@Rider357W51-38
12/20(N)Iowa25L94-39
12/31@Holy Cross329L65-58
1/3Lehigh284W72-65
1/7@Navy142L76-55
1/10Loyola MD322W70-67
1/14Lafayette325W76-69
1/17@Colgate249L95-76
1/21Army337L87-84
1/24@Loyola MD322L67-62
1/28@Lafayette325L81-79
1/31Boston Univ261W103-97
2/4@American Univ238W60-59
2/7Colgate249L78-59
2/9Navy142L76-60
2/14@Boston Univ261L82-69
2/18American Univ238L75-57
2/22Holy Cross329L72-63
2/25@Army337W75-73
2/28@Lehigh284L89-79
3/3Army337W65-55
3/5@Navy142L74-69