NCAA Tournament March Madness

#218 Cal Poly

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cal Poly’s resume is built on a handful of bona fide road scalps — wins at Seattle, at Utah and at Cal State Fullerton — but those bright spots are offset by heavy setbacks at USC and at UCLA and ugly nonconference defeats at Montana and Montana State that sap the team’s margin for error. In Big West play the team has split with top rivals, combining resume-making home victories over UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara with damaging road losses and tight games that count against them. That pattern of oscillation between signature victories and lop-sided defeats makes the at-large case thin and leaves winning the conference tournament as the clearest path to the field, with a trip to Cal State Bakersfield the last chance to improve the profile before postseason play.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@USC70L94-64
11/8@Seattle115W73-71
11/12@Colorado St83L93-79
11/14@Montana188L90-82
11/20@Utah120W92-85
11/24@Northern Arizona319L93-87
11/25(N)SE Missouri St230L84-68
12/4@CS Fullerton171W94-91
12/6UC Riverside263L88-84
12/16Montana St130L83-80
12/19@UCLA34L108-87
12/21Idaho173L83-80
1/1UC San Diego114W67-65
1/3@Long Beach St247L74-66
1/8@CS Northridge167L95-90
1/10UC Davis152W84-78
1/15Hawaii106L86-66
1/22@UC Santa Barbara128L107-67
1/24CS Fullerton171L93-78
1/29@CS Bakersfield322W104-79
1/31@UC Riverside263W94-87
2/5CS Northridge167L97-96
2/7@UC Davis152L67-58
2/12UC Irvine110W79-73
2/14UC Santa Barbara128W89-79
2/19@Hawaii106W86-75
2/26Long Beach St247W102-92
2/28@UC San Diego114L80-64
3/5@UC Irvine110L107-85
3/7CS Bakersfield32282%