NCAA Tournament March Madness

#186 CS Fullerton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cal State Fullerton’s profile makes clear they are not a comfortable at-large team because a tough nonconference slate produced several heavy road defeats at power programs like California, SMU and Oklahoma State that overshadow the brighter moments such as a neutral-site win over St. Thomas and road victories at Denver and UC San Diego. The league picture is mixed with an important home victory over UC Santa Barbara but also damaging home and road setbacks like the loss to Cal Poly and defeats at UC Davis and UC Riverside, so there are too few true neutral or road wins to convince a committee. The remaining schedule offers manageable home dates against UC Riverside and CS Bakersfield and meaningful road tests at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine that could repair the résumé, but until Fullerton strings together a string of quality wins away from Titan Gym their clearest path to the NCAA field is securing the Big West’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Wyoming108L92-82
11/10@California63L93-65
11/15Pacific116L85-73
11/21@Portland191L103-85
11/22(N)St Thomas MN129W88-80
11/23(N)N Colorado188L97-93
11/29Pepperdine272W83-69
12/4Cal Poly270L94-91
12/6@Hawaii92L69-59
12/13@Denver269W105-86
12/21@Oklahoma St69L94-89
12/28@SMU35L110-63
1/1UC Santa Barbara137W95-84
1/3UC Irvine114L86-64
1/8@UC San Diego106W88-71
1/10CS Northridge209W86-79
1/15@UC Davis163L74-69
1/17@UC Riverside276L81-72
1/22Long Beach St234W71-61
1/24@Cal Poly270W93-78
1/31@UC Santa Barbara13729%
2/5UC Riverside27678%
2/7CS Bakersfield30283%
2/12@Long Beach St23448%
2/14@UC Irvine11424%
2/19UC Davis16357%
2/21@CS Bakersfield30265%
2/28Hawaii9236%
3/5UC San Diego10641%
3/7@CS Northridge20944%