NCAA Tournament March Madness
#66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/3 | Montana St | 164 | W84-78 |
| 11/8 | E Washington | 235 | W102-97 |
| 11/14 | Providence | 62 | W97-88 |
| 11/17 | Alabama St | 259 | W94-66 |
| 11/21 | UC Davis | 165 | W95-79 |
| 11/27 | (N)San Francisco | 103 | W79-69 |
| 11/28 | (N)Washington | 49 | W81-68 |
| 12/1 | Cal Baptist | 129 | W78-70 |
| 12/6 | @Colorado St | 65 | 39% |
| 12/13 | UT San Antonio | 267 | 95% |
| 12/17 | Portland St | 182 | 89% |
| 12/20 | (N)Stanford | 84 | 58% |
| 12/28 | N Colorado | 161 | 88% |
| 1/3 | @Arizona St | 73 | 42% |
| 1/7 | Utah | 123 | 80% |
| 1/10 | Texas Tech | 30 | 45% |
| 1/14 | @Cincinnati | 74 | 43% |
| 1/17 | @West Virginia | 75 | 43% |
| 1/18 | Kansas | 18 | 39% |
| 1/20 | Kansas | 18 | 39% |
| 1/24 | UCF | 60 | 59% |
| 1/29 | @Iowa St | 2 | 5% |
| 2/1 | TCU | 56 | 58% |
| 2/4 | @Baylor | 33 | 26% |
| 2/7 | Arizona St | 73 | 64% |
| 2/11 | @Texas Tech | 30 | 25% |
| 2/14 | @BYU | 9 | 11% |
| 2/21 | Oklahoma St | 46 | 55% |
| 2/25 | Kansas St | 82 | 68% |
| 2/28 | @Houston | 10 | 12% |
| 3/3 | @Utah | 123 | 61% |
| 3/7 | Arizona | 5 | 22% |