NCAA Tournament March Madness

#175 CS Northridge

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

CS Northridge is projected to need the conference’s automatic bid because its best work comes from conference play and a few respectable road wins while its nonconference resume is blemished by damaging losses and a shortage of marquee neutral-site victories. The Matadors’ resume is bolstered by a true road victory at Delaware, wins away at UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly, and a solid home result against Fresno State, all of which show they can win outside their own gym and handle capable midmajor foes. Those positives are offset by a heavy setback at Northern Iowa, neutral-site defeats to Idaho and Idaho State, and repeated losses to UC Irvine, and those results blunt any case for an at-large berth. With most of the resume’s quality coming from league games, the clearest way into the NCAA tournament is to run through the Big West tournament and dispatch the league’s top opposition on neutral courts.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Northern Iowa72L86-57
11/9@North Dakota275W93-85
11/11@N Dakota St113L90-68
11/16Troy143W94-85
11/26(N)Idaho145L78-64
11/28(N)Idaho St250L82-50
12/4CS Bakersfield326W87-66
12/6@UC Irvine104L85-71
12/10Fresno St132W89-87
12/13@Delaware293W88-66
12/22CS Sacramento265W100-88
12/27@Stanford58L88-80
1/1@UC Davis159L89-80
1/3UC Santa Barbara130W74-65
1/8Cal Poly212W95-90
1/10@CS Fullerton168L86-79
1/15@UC San Diego118W84-79
1/17Long Beach St231L87-80
1/24@Hawaii107L89-68
1/29UC Davis159W94-78
1/31UC San Diego118W81-64
2/5@Cal Poly212W97-96
2/7UC Riverside258W88-74
2/14Hawaii107W84-60
2/19@UC Santa Barbara130W85-83
2/21@Long Beach St231W78-76
2/26UC Irvine104L68-67
2/28@UC Riverside258L95-84
3/5@CS Bakersfield326W86-84
3/7CS Fullerton168L90-77
3/12(N)UC San Diego118W80-70
3/13(N)UC Irvine104L93-78