NCAA Tournament March Madness

#202 CS Fullerton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cal State Fullerton’s profile makes clear why the practical route to the national field runs through an automatic berth: a few encouraging flashes — a neutral win over St Thomas, a road victory at Denver and a home triumph over UC Santa Barbara — are outweighed by damaging trips to power opponents such as SMU, California and Oklahoma State and by losses at midmajor peers like Cal Poly and Hawaii. The committee will look at the scarcity of meaningful road and neutral victories and the frequency of poor outcomes away from their own arena while noting several close conference defeats that signal competitiveness without consistency. The remainder of the schedule includes a cluster of winnable home dates and a handful of tougher road tests at Cal Poly, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, so Fullerton can still alter its standing, but without a signature win away from home the cleanest, most reliable path onto the bracket is to secure the Big West’s automatic spot.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Wyoming102L92-82
11/10@California75L93-65
11/15Pacific120L85-73
11/21@Portland196L103-85
11/22(N)St Thomas MN130W88-80
11/23(N)N Colorado175L97-93
11/29Pepperdine267W83-69
12/4Cal Poly245L94-91
12/6@Hawaii100L69-59
12/13@Denver259W105-86
12/21@Oklahoma St67L94-89
12/28@SMU31L110-63
1/1UC Santa Barbara156W95-84
1/3UC Irvine125L86-64
1/8@UC San Diego104W88-71
1/10CS Northridge204W86-79
1/15@UC Davis165L74-69
1/17@UC Riverside273L81-72
1/22Long Beach St22965%
1/24@Cal Poly24546%
1/31@UC Santa Barbara15630%
2/5UC Riverside27374%
2/7CS Bakersfield30680%
2/12@Long Beach St22943%
2/14@UC Irvine12523%
2/19UC Davis16553%
2/21@CS Bakersfield30661%
2/28Hawaii10035%
3/5UC San Diego10436%
3/7@CS Northridge20439%