NCAA Tournament March Madness

#167 CS Northridge

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

CS Northridge’s profile makes clear why the safest path to the NCAA Tournament runs through the Big West automatic bid: the resume is built on solid conference wins like Fresno State and UC Santa Barbara at home and resume-boosting road victories at Delaware, UC San Diego and Cal Poly, but those highs are counterbalanced by damaging nonconference and neutral-site setbacks such as the trips to Northern Iowa and Stanford and the neutral losses to Idaho and Idaho State, and a few ill-timed conference defeats away at places like UC Irvine and UC Riverside underscore inconsistency on the road. The team still has a meaningful chance to improve perception with its final regular-season home date against CS Fullerton, yet without an additional marquee neutral or true road triumph the committee will view this body of work as one that leans on conference success rather than an at-large profile.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Northern Iowa76L86-57
11/9@North Dakota282W93-85
11/11@N Dakota St117L90-68
11/16Troy159W94-85
11/26(N)Idaho173L78-64
11/28(N)Idaho St253L82-50
12/4CS Bakersfield322W87-66
12/6@UC Irvine110L85-71
12/10Fresno St126W89-87
12/13@Delaware270W88-66
12/22CS Sacramento255W100-88
12/27@Stanford61L88-80
1/1@UC Davis152L89-80
1/3UC Santa Barbara128W74-65
1/8Cal Poly218W95-90
1/10@CS Fullerton171L86-79
1/15@UC San Diego114W84-79
1/17Long Beach St247L87-80
1/24@Hawaii106L89-68
1/29UC Davis152W94-78
1/31UC San Diego114W81-64
2/5@Cal Poly218W97-96
2/7UC Riverside263W88-74
2/14Hawaii106W84-60
2/19@UC Santa Barbara128W85-83
2/21@Long Beach St247W78-76
2/26UC Irvine110L68-67
2/28@UC Riverside263L95-84
3/5@CS Bakersfield322W86-84
3/7CS Fullerton17162%