NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Columbia

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#130 Columbia

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Columbia’s profile is a mix of encouraging road performances and a couple of ugly setbacks that explain its current standing. Road wins at New Haven, Lehigh and Fairfield and a dominant outing at Longwood demonstrate it can close games away from home, and a tight home victory over Hofstra serves as the résumé’s best scalp, yet the blowout loss at Connecticut and the road loss at Stony Brook are damaging results that selection committees do not overlook. A looming trip to California is a chance to add a marquee road win while the Ivy League stretch — including trips to Yale, Princeton and Harvard as well as home dates with Harvard, Princeton and Cornell — offers multiple clear opportunities to replace bad losses with meaningful victories. In short, the body of work shows useful upside and tangible ways to improve, but the bad losses limit margin for error going forward.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/7	@New Haven	343	W71-53
11/10	@Connecticut	7	L89-62
11/13	MA Lowell	302	W86-72
11/18	Boston Univ	298	W54-49
11/21	@Lehigh	305	W82-67
11/23	Longwood	313	W95-70
11/26	@Fairfield	303	W106-77
12/3	Hofstra	109	W72-70
12/6	SUNY Albany	322	W93-65
12/9	@Stony Brook	193	L77-73
12/21	@California	76	22%
12/28	@North Florida	334	83%
1/5	@Cornell	167	50%
1/10	Harvard	207	78%
1/17	@Brown	222	61%
1/19	@Yale	78	23%
1/24	@Dartmouth	257	66%
1/30	Penn	248	83%
1/31	Princeton	269	85%
2/7	Cornell	167	71%
2/13	@Penn	248	65%
2/14	@Princeton	269	69%
2/21	Dartmouth	257	84%
2/27	Brown	222	80%
2/28	Yale	78	43%
3/7	@Harvard	207	58%