NCAA Tournament March Madness

#171 CS Fullerton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

CS Fullerton’s resume is full of flashes but also of flaws, so their cleanest route to the NCAA Tournament comes through winning the Big West. They have some resume-building moments, like the road win at Denver, the neutral-site victory over St Thomas and the home win over UC Santa Barbara, and they showed they can compete at the highest level in a tight game at Oklahoma State, but those highs are offset by lopsided losses at California and SMU and a handful of damaging home setbacks to Pacific, Cal Poly and Hawaii that will stick with the committee. Their road resume is mixed with meaningful victories and costly defeats at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, and most of the stronger wins came at home or against mid-major opponents rather than on neutral floors against top-tier teams. With only a final trip to CS Northridge left to improve the profile, the practical path to the field for this group is winning the conference’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Wyoming97L92-82
11/10@California69L93-65
11/15Pacific113L85-73
11/21@Portland191L103-85
11/22(N)St Thomas MN103W88-80
11/23(N)N Colorado139L97-93
11/29Pepperdine265W83-69
12/4Cal Poly218L94-91
12/6@Hawaii106L69-59
12/13@Denver233W105-86
12/21@Oklahoma St68L94-89
12/28@SMU43L110-63
1/1UC Santa Barbara128W95-84
1/3UC Irvine110L86-64
1/8@UC San Diego114W88-71
1/10CS Northridge167W86-79
1/15@UC Davis152L74-69
1/17@UC Riverside263L81-72
1/22Long Beach St247W71-61
1/24@Cal Poly218W93-78
1/31@UC Santa Barbara128L83-69
2/5UC Riverside263W78-72
2/7CS Bakersfield322W82-66
2/12@Long Beach St247W86-82
2/14@UC Irvine110L86-65
2/19UC Davis152W93-92
2/21@CS Bakersfield322W88-80
2/28Hawaii106L87-85
3/5UC San Diego114W75-71
3/7@CS Northridge16738%