NCAA Tournament March Madness

#204 CS Northridge

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

CS Northridge’s résumé shows flashes that a selection committee will notice but not enough reliable quality to expect an at-large bid. The program’s best moments include road wins at Delaware and UC San Diego and nonconference victories over Troy and Fresno State plus a home win over UC Santa Barbara, yet those positives are outweighed by ugly road blowouts at Northern Iowa, North Dakota State and Stanford and lopsided nonconference losses to Idaho and Idaho State that leave the profile with damaging blemishes. The team has not consistently beaten résumé-building opponents away from home and the remaining slate is heavy with road and neutral tests at UC Davis, Hawaii, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine that represent the only realistic chances to add a marquee win. With a thin list of quality wins and a handful of very bad losses, the clearest path to the NCAA field for this group is to secure the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Northern Iowa108L86-57
11/9@North Dakota308W93-85
11/11@N Dakota St140L90-68
11/16Troy113W94-85
11/26(N)Idaho191L78-64
11/28(N)Idaho St203L82-50
12/4CS Bakersfield306W87-66
12/6@UC Irvine125L85-71
12/10Fresno St135W89-87
12/13@Delaware297W88-66
12/22CS Sacramento282W100-88
12/27@Stanford76L88-80
1/1@UC Davis165L89-80
1/3UC Santa Barbara156W74-65
1/8Cal Poly245W95-90
1/10@CS Fullerton202L86-79
1/15@UC San Diego104W84-79
1/17Long Beach St229L87-80
1/25@Hawaii10017%
1/29UC Davis16553%
1/31UC San Diego10436%
2/5@Cal Poly24546%
2/7UC Riverside27374%
2/14Hawaii10035%
2/19@UC Santa Barbara15629%
2/21@Long Beach St22943%
2/26UC Irvine12543%
2/28@UC Riverside27353%
3/5@CS Bakersfield30660%
3/7CS Fullerton20261%