NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Cornell

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#187 Cornell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cornell’s path to the field runs through the Ivy because the profile shows an offense that can light up the scoreboard in wins at Bucknell and Lafayette and a narrow home victory over Colgate but a defense that has been carved up in road trips to Michigan State and Kent and in a heavy loss at Yale, and those damaging defeats outweigh the résumé’s modest signature moments; inconsistency on the road and home losses to league opponents like Columbia and Dartmouth leave little margin for error, so the realistic route is to capitalize on the remaining Ivy slate — including road tests at Princeton and Penn and home dates with Harvard and Yale — and earn the automatic berth rather than rely on outside judgment.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/7	@Kent	147	L110-102
11/9	@Illinois St	86	L76-65
11/13	@Lafayette	316	W97-78
11/18	Army	335	W86-73
11/20	Colgate	192	W95-94
11/30	@Bucknell	324	W101-72
12/2	@George Mason	73	L99-81
12/3	@Towson	172	L93-80
12/7	@Samford	257	L93-90
12/21	@SUNY Albany	296	W83-75
12/29	@Michigan St	9	L114-97
1/5	Columbia	168	L104-99
1/10	Dartmouth	225	L102-91
1/17	@Yale	79	L102-68
1/19	@Brown	265	W89-67
1/24	@Harvard	171	35%
1/30	Princeton	231	69%
1/31	Penn	178	59%
2/7	@Columbia	168	35%
2/13	@Princeton	231	47%
2/14	@Penn	178	37%
2/21	Harvard	171	57%
2/27	Yale	79	30%
2/28	Brown	265	75%
3/7	@Dartmouth	225	46%