NCAA Tournament March Madness

#73 California

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Projection: likely out

California’s résumé pairs a marquee neutral-site victory over UCLA and meaningful road wins at Stanford and Miami with a signature home win over North Carolina, showing the team can beat quality opponents, but those highs are offset by damaging defeats including lopsided losses to Duke and Virginia and a brutal road loss at Syracuse that leave questions about consistency. With the regular season effectively done their only realistic route to change the projection is a deep conference tournament run where neutral-floor wins over the likes of Florida State or Virginia would be necessary to erase the damage from those bad losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3CS Bakersfield326W87-60
11/6Wright St140W77-67
11/10CS Fullerton168W93-65
11/13@Kansas St101L99-96
11/18Presbyterian270W67-57
11/21CS Sacramento265W91-67
11/25(N)UCLA27W80-72
12/2Utah126W79-72
12/6Pacific112W67-61
12/13Northwestern LA281W79-70
12/19Morgan St353W97-50
12/21Columbia189W74-56
12/30Louisville19L90-70
1/2Notre Dame89W72-71
1/7@Virginia13L84-60
1/10@Virginia Tech55L78-75
1/14Duke1L71-56
1/17North Carolina29W84-78
1/24@Stanford58W78-66
1/28@Florida St56L63-61
1/31@Miami FL31W86-85
2/4Georgia Tech162W90-85
2/7Clemson36L77-55
2/11@Syracuse83L107-100
2/14@Boston College156W86-75
2/21Stanford58W72-66
2/25SMU42W73-69
2/28Pittsburgh94L72-56
3/4@Georgia Tech162W76-65
3/7@Wake Forest74L80-73
3/11(N)Florida St56L95-89