NCAA Tournament March Madness

#160 CS Northridge

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

CS Northridge’s résumé pairs a handful of eye-catching wins at home, like victories over Fresno State and Hawaii, and quality road successes at Delaware and UC San Diego and at Cal Poly with a string of damaging defeats away from home and on neutral floors, most notably at Northern Iowa, North Dakota State, Stanford and in Idaho. That pattern signals an offense that can carry games while a defense can be vulnerable in hostile environments, leaving the committee wary because the profile lacks enough signature road or neutral wins and carries several bad losses. The remainder of the schedule includes manageable home tests against UC Riverside, CS Bakersfield and UC Irvine plus important road trips to UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State, so Northridge’s best path to the field is to seize those upcoming opportunities rather than depend on the résumé as it stands.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Northern Iowa88L86-57
11/9@North Dakota290W93-85
11/11@N Dakota St124L90-68
11/16Troy137W94-85
11/26(N)Idaho177L78-64
11/28(N)Idaho St251L82-50
12/4CS Bakersfield318W87-66
12/6@UC Irvine119L85-71
12/10Fresno St120W89-87
12/13@Delaware267W88-66
12/22CS Sacramento258W100-88
12/27@Stanford74L88-80
1/1@UC Davis155L89-80
1/3UC Santa Barbara129W74-65
1/8Cal Poly225W95-90
1/10@CS Fullerton171L86-79
1/15@UC San Diego113W84-79
1/17Long Beach St240L87-80
1/24@Hawaii105L89-68
1/29UC Davis155W94-78
1/31UC San Diego113W81-64
2/5@Cal Poly225W97-96
2/7UC Riverside278W88-74
2/14Hawaii105W84-60
2/19@UC Santa Barbara12932%
2/21@Long Beach St24056%
2/26UC Irvine11952%
2/28@UC Riverside27863%
3/5@CS Bakersfield31874%
3/7CS Fullerton17164%