NCAA Tournament March Madness

#178 CS Northridge

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

It makes sense that CS Northridge looks like a team that must win the conference tournament because the résumé is a blend of meaningful mid‑major victories and several damaging blowouts and poor road results that leave little room for an at‑large case. The Matadors have shown they can win tough games away with the trip to Delaware and the win at UC San Diego and they beat Fresno State at home and UC Santa Barbara in conference play, but those positives are countered by ugly losses at Northern Iowa and at North Dakota State and a lopsided neutral loss to Idaho State plus a rough outing at Hawaii that create resume holes committees notice. A sequence of upcoming opportunities, including a visit to UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State along with home dates against Hawaii and UC Irvine and a favorable trip to CS Bakersfield, gives Northridge a path to repair the profile, yet without a clear marquee road or neutral win the cleanest path to the NCAA field remains winning the Big West.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Northern Iowa88L86-57
11/9@North Dakota291W93-85
11/11@N Dakota St124L90-68
11/16Troy137W94-85
11/26(N)Idaho179L78-64
11/28(N)Idaho St254L82-50
12/4CS Bakersfield316W87-66
12/6@UC Irvine118L85-71
12/10Fresno St121W89-87
12/13@Delaware267W88-66
12/22CS Sacramento250W100-88
12/27@Stanford74L88-80
1/1@UC Davis156L89-80
1/3UC Santa Barbara129W74-65
1/8Cal Poly225W95-90
1/10@CS Fullerton171L86-79
1/15@UC San Diego113W84-79
1/17Long Beach St240L87-80
1/24@Hawaii91L89-68
1/29UC Davis156W94-78
1/31UC San Diego113W81-64
2/5@Cal Poly225W97-96
2/7UC Riverside277W88-74
2/14Hawaii9138%
2/19@UC Santa Barbara12928%
2/21@Long Beach St24052%
2/26UC Irvine11847%
2/28@UC Riverside27760%
3/5@CS Bakersfield31671%
3/7CS Fullerton17160%