NCAA Tournament March Madness

#204 Columbia

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Columbia's résumé shows enough quality wins away from home to keep hope alive but not enough signature victories to erase some damaging setbacks, so the most reliable route to the tournament runs through winning the Ivy. Road successes at Princeton and Cornell and nonconference victories at Lehigh and North Florida demonstrate the team can win outside its gym, yet those highs are undercut by heavy road losses at Connecticut and California and a shocking home defeat to Harvard followed by a loss in the rematch with Cornell. Conference play has been streaky, with losses at Brown and Yale exposing inconsistency, so the remaining slate against Dartmouth, Brown, Yale and a road trip to Harvard are Columbia's final opportunities to clear up the blemishes on its profile and make an at-large case unnecessary.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@New Haven333W71-53
11/10@Connecticut9L89-62
11/13MA Lowell319W86-72
11/18Boston Univ280W54-49
11/21@Lehigh300W82-67
11/23Longwood284W95-70
11/26@Fairfield263W106-77
12/3Hofstra102W72-70
12/6SUNY Albany326W93-65
12/9@Stony Brook217L77-73
12/21@California67L74-56
12/28@North Florida337W90-82
1/5@Cornell144W104-99
1/10Harvard167L79-54
1/17@Brown281L86-80
1/19@Yale75L91-74
1/24@Dartmouth249W79-69
1/30Penn180W72-67
1/31Princeton242L80-68
2/7Cornell144L88-67
2/13@Penn180L76-67
2/14@Princeton242W75-65
2/21Dartmouth24970%
2/27Brown28177%
2/28Yale7528%
3/7@Harvard16733%