NCAA Tournament March Madness

#245 Cal Poly

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cal Poly’s season has a couple of résumé-building road wins at Utah and Seattle that show the team can compete away from home, but those bright spots are outweighed by lopsided defeats at USC and UCLA and damaging losses to Montana and Northern Arizona that a committee will not overlook. Conference play has been uneven with thin wins over CS Fullerton and UC Davis that help the case but too many road slips at Long Beach State and CS Northridge and a home loss to UC Riverside that leave the league body of work fragile. The remaining conference slate offers clear opportunities to improve, including trips to CS Bakersfield and chances at home against CS Fullerton, yet without an eye-catching road or neutral victory the at-large route looks unlikely. Given the mix of quality wins, bad losses and an unimpressive profile away from campus the most reliable way for Cal Poly to reach the NCAA field is to secure the Big West’s automatic qualifying spot.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@USC51L94-64
11/8@Seattle123W73-71
11/12@Colorado St88L93-79
11/14@Montana163L90-82
11/20@Utah114W92-85
11/24@Northern Arizona321L93-87
11/25(N)SE Missouri St251L84-68
12/4@CS Fullerton202W94-91
12/6UC Riverside273L88-84
12/16Montana St152L83-80
12/19@UCLA39L108-87
12/21Idaho191L83-80
1/1UC San Diego104W67-65
1/3@Long Beach St229L74-66
1/8@CS Northridge204L95-90
1/10UC Davis165W84-78
1/15Hawaii100L86-66
1/22@UC Santa Barbara15623%
1/24CS Fullerton20254%
1/29@CS Bakersfield30653%
1/31@UC Riverside27346%
2/5CS Northridge20454%
2/7@UC Davis16525%
2/12UC Irvine12536%
2/14UC Santa Barbara15643%
2/19@Hawaii10013%
2/20@Hawaii10013%
2/26Long Beach St22958%
2/28@UC San Diego10414%
3/5@UC Irvine12518%
3/7CS Bakersfield30674%