NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Columbia

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#168 Columbia

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Columbia needs the Ivy's automatic spot because its nonconference résumé offers mostly modest scalps — solid road wins at Cornell, Fairfield and North Florida and a gritty home victory over Hofstra — while its profile is punctured by a lopsided loss at Connecticut, a tough trip to California and damaging league losses at Yale, Brown and Harvard, and those beatings are hard to overcome without a signature neutral-site victory to balance them. Remaining Ivy dates at home against Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton and Cornell and trips to Penn, Princeton and Harvard plus late tests against Yale and Brown represent the only concentrated opportunity to erase the bad losses and build the kind of conference résumé a selection committee would have to respect.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/7	@New Haven	338	W71-53
11/10	@Connecticut	11	L89-62
11/13	MA Lowell	303	W86-72
11/18	Boston Univ	291	W54-49
11/21	@Lehigh	307	W82-67
11/23	Longwood	276	W95-70
11/26	@Fairfield	263	W106-77
12/3	Hofstra	109	W72-70
12/6	SUNY Albany	296	W93-65
12/9	@Stony Brook	258	L77-73
12/21	@California	75	L74-56
12/28	@North Florida	343	W90-82
1/5	@Cornell	187	W104-99
1/10	Harvard	171	L79-54
1/17	@Brown	265	L86-80
1/19	@Yale	79	L91-74
1/24	@Dartmouth	225	50%
1/30	Penn	178	63%
1/31	Princeton	231	72%
2/7	Cornell	187	65%
2/13	@Penn	178	41%
2/14	@Princeton	231	51%
2/21	Dartmouth	225	71%
2/27	Brown	265	78%
2/28	Yale	79	33%
3/7	@Harvard	171	39%