NCAA Tournament March Madness

#279 CS Fullerton

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Cal State Fullerton’s résumé is defined by a handful of encouraging results and several damaging losses, with a neutral win over St. Thomas and a road victory at Pepperdine standing out but heavy defeats at Wyoming and California and road setbacks at Portland and Hawaii exposing a clear vulnerability away from home. The Titans have shown they can beat midlevel opponents but lack a marquee signature win, and the remaining nonconference road dates at Denver, Oklahoma State and SMU offer the only realistic chances to change that narrative while the conference slate at UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Long Beach State, Cal Poly, UC Davis, CS Northridge and CS Bakersfield is where they must pile up clean, convincing victories. Until Fullerton can pair more quality wins with fewer ugly defeats in hostile environments, the body of work reads like a team still trying to prove it can win when the venue and opponent make the margin for error very small.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Wyoming97L92-82
11/10@California71L93-65
11/15Pacific123L85-73
11/21@Portland244L103-85
11/22(N)St Thomas MN160W88-80
11/23(N)N Colorado162L97-93
11/29Pepperdine294W83-69
12/4Cal Poly241L94-91
12/6@Hawaii101L69-59
12/13@Denver28039%
12/21@Oklahoma St493%
12/28@SMU402%
1/1UC Santa Barbara14033%
1/3UC Irvine12429%
1/8@UC San Diego999%
1/10CS Northridge24755%
1/15@UC Davis16521%
1/17@UC Riverside25034%
1/22Long Beach St26558%
1/24@Cal Poly24132%
1/31@UC Santa Barbara14016%
2/5UC Riverside25056%
2/7CS Bakersfield30166%
2/12@Long Beach St26536%
2/14@UC Irvine12413%
2/19UC Davis16540%
2/21@CS Bakersfield30144%
2/28Hawaii10122%
3/5UC San Diego9922%
3/7@CS Northridge24733%