NCAA Tournament March Madness

#65 Colorado

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Projected seed: 4

Colorado's résumé is built on a couple of clean nonconference statements — neutral-site wins over San Francisco and Washington and a home victory over Providence — but it also includes a string of wins against lower-tier opponents such as Montana State and UC Davis that do little to silence questions about consistency, especially on the defensive end where the team has looked vulnerable at times. The real narrative is this brutal Big Twelve gauntlet that lies ahead and the mixed results so far in it; road dates at Iowa State, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Baylor, Texas Tech, BYU and Houston are either resume-makers or resume-breakers, and home tests against Kansas and Arizona give Colorado chances to land marquee wins in front of a friendly crowd. A neutral meeting with Stanford presents another midseason opportunity to bolster the profile without the travel penalty. The committee will reward road and neutral success and will be wary of a body of work that stacks many modest victories against only a few true quality scalps, so Colorado’s standing will come down to whether it can convert those upcoming high-leverage chances while tightening up on defense.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Montana St162W84-78
11/8E Washington238W102-97
11/14Providence60W97-88
11/17Alabama St271W94-66
11/21UC Davis163W95-79
11/27(N)San Francisco95W79-69
11/28(N)Washington48W81-68
12/1Cal Baptist129W78-70
12/6@Colorado St6439%
12/13UT San Antonio27495%
12/17Portland St18390%
12/20(N)Stanford9061%
12/28N Colorado16087%
1/3@Arizona St7443%
1/7Utah12580%
1/10Texas Tech1939%
1/14@Cincinnati7643%
1/17@West Virginia7744%
1/18Kansas1735%
1/20Kansas1735%
1/24UCF5256%
1/29@Iowa St26%
2/1TCU5658%
2/4@Baylor3326%
2/7Arizona St7465%
2/11@Texas Tech1920%
2/14@BYU912%
2/21Oklahoma St4955%
2/25Kansas St8268%
2/28@Houston1012%
3/3@Utah12561%
3/7Arizona522%