NCAA Tournament March Madness

#131 Cal Baptist

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cal Baptist’s résumé hinges on a handful of signature road and neutral victories, most notably wins at UC Irvine and Oregon State and a neutral-site triumph over San Diego that show the program can win away from home and on a neutral floor. Those bright spots are tempered by a damaging result at BYU and defeats at Colorado and Utah that expose a ceiling against stronger opponents and weaken the committee’s view of their nonconference body of work. The WAC slate gives them clear ways to reinforce the positive narrative with road tests at Utah Valley, UT Arlington and Tarleton State and home dates against Utah Tech, Southern Utah and Abilene Christian, so avoiding any upset losses away from home and piling up wins against those conference foes would protect the value of their best moments while erasing the sting of the bad results.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3SC Upstate258W87-75
11/7@UC Irvine124W69-61
11/14W Illinois353W69-59
11/18UC Riverside250W80-57
11/21Grambling285W72-59
11/25(N)San Diego257W76-61
11/29@Oregon St179W75-69
12/1@Colorado63L78-70
12/3BYU11L91-60
12/6@Utah122L91-85
12/12@E Washington24063%
12/16Southern Univ21179%
12/20CS Sacramento27585%
12/29@Utah Valley8525%
1/1@UT Arlington16850%
1/3@Tarleton St19556%
1/8Utah Tech24882%
1/10Southern Utah31691%
1/15@Abilene Chr22260%
1/21Utah Tech24882%
1/24Utah Valley8546%
1/31@UT Arlington16850%
2/5Tarleton St19576%
2/7Abilene Chr22279%
2/12@Southern Utah31678%
2/14@Utah Tech24864%
2/19@Utah Valley8525%
2/26UT Arlington16871%
2/28Tarleton St19576%
3/5Abilene Chr22279%
3/7@Southern Utah31678%