NCAA Tournament March Madness

#118 Cal Baptist

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Projection: likely out

Cal Baptist’s résumé is anchored by a resume-defining road win at Oregon State and a neutral-site victory over San Diego, but those positives are offset by a blowout neutral loss to BYU and damaging road defeats at Colorado and at Utah that selection committees will not overlook. Most of the wins have come against lower-level nonconference and conference opponents such as SC Upstate, Grambling, Tarleton State, Utah Tech and Abilene Christian, so there is a scarcity of eye-catching victories away from home or on neutral courts. With the remainder of the schedule featuring familiar conference matchups at Utah Tech and at Utah Valley and home dates against UT Arlington, Tarleton State, Abilene Christian and Southern Utah, there are limited chances left to manufacture a signature win. The combination of one notable road scalp, several poor results away from neutral courts and few remaining opportunities to flip the résumé leaves the team on the outside of a strong at-large case.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3SC Upstate298W87-75
11/7@UC Irvine119W69-61
11/14W Illinois361W69-59
11/18UC Riverside278W80-57
11/21Grambling279W72-59
11/25(N)San Diego214W76-61
11/29@Oregon St179W75-69
12/1@Colorado73L78-70
12/3(N)BYU22L91-60
12/6@Utah127L91-85
12/12@E Washington198W88-83
12/16Southern Univ270W75-67
12/20CS Sacramento258W74-67
12/29@Utah Valley87L73-66
1/1@UT Arlington168L63-51
1/3@Tarleton St212L81-76
1/8Utah Tech186W84-72
1/10Southern Utah268W58-55
1/15@Abilene Chr234W74-58
1/21Utah Tech186W73-64
1/24Utah Valley87W78-71
1/31@UT Arlington168W87-77
2/5Tarleton St212W56-55
2/7Abilene Chr234W65-63
2/12@Southern Utah268W83-66
2/14@Utah Tech18654%
2/19@Utah Valley8729%
2/26UT Arlington16871%
2/28Tarleton St21278%
3/5Abilene Chr23482%
3/7@Southern Utah26871%