NCAA Tournament March Madness

#169 CS Fullerton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

CS Fullerton’s profile pairs a handful of solid road and neutral victories with several damaging defeats at major‑conference sites, so winning the Big West looks like the clearest path to the NCAA field. The Titans have shown they can win away from home by taking Denver and knocking off Long Beach State and CS Bakersfield in hostile settings, and they have a useful neutral victory over St Thomas plus a home win over UC Santa Barbara, yet those positives are seriously undercut by lopsided losses at California and SMU and a poor outing at Wyoming that a committee will remember. Splitting with Cal Poly and with UC Santa Barbara and hanging tight in defeats at Oklahoma State and at UC Davis proves they can compete on the road but leaves them short of the kind of durable, high‑quality wins that carry an at‑large case. With a resume that mixes some resume‑building results and several blemishes, the conference tournament is the biggest remaining opportunity to change the profile and secure an automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Wyoming98L92-82
11/10@California71L93-65
11/15Pacific111L85-73
11/21@Portland199L103-85
11/22(N)St Thomas MN109W88-80
11/23(N)N Colorado140L97-93
11/29Pepperdine263W83-69
12/4Cal Poly213L94-91
12/6@Hawaii115L69-59
12/13@Denver234W105-86
12/21@Oklahoma St65L94-89
12/28@SMU42L110-63
1/1UC Santa Barbara127W95-84
1/3UC Irvine106L86-64
1/8@UC San Diego113W88-71
1/10CS Northridge177W86-79
1/15@UC Davis156L74-69
1/17@UC Riverside260L81-72
1/22Long Beach St233W71-61
1/24@Cal Poly213W93-78
1/31@UC Santa Barbara127L83-69
2/5UC Riverside260W78-72
2/7CS Bakersfield327W82-66
2/12@Long Beach St233W86-82
2/14@UC Irvine106L86-65
2/19UC Davis156W93-92
2/21@CS Bakersfield327W88-80
2/28Hawaii115L87-85
3/5UC San Diego113W75-71
3/7@CS Northridge177W90-77