NCAA Tournament March Madness

#144 Cornell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cornell's clearest path to the NCAA tournament runs through winning the Ivy automatic spot because the résumé showcases a high-octane offense and several resume-building road wins yet is marred by a string of lopsided nonconference losses that undercut any at-large argument. The team’s best moments include road victories at Princeton and Harvard and a decisive trip to Brown plus a strong showing at Bucknell and a tight home win over Colgate, evidence that it can win away from home and in close games. The worst moments are stark and specific: heavy defeats at Kent, Illinois State, and Michigan State, a blowout at Yale, and home setbacks to Columbia and Dartmouth that a committee will view as damaging. With remaining games at Penn and at Dartmouth and home dates against Harvard, Yale, and Brown still to be played, Cornell has clear opportunities to repair the defensive profile and accumulate the kind of road results and bad-loss avoidance that would make an at-large case plausible, but until those results arrive securing the Ivy automatic bid remains the most realistic route.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Kent146L110-102
11/9@Illinois St88L76-65
11/13@Lafayette327W97-78
11/18Army338W86-73
11/20Colgate213W95-94
11/30@Bucknell331W101-72
12/2@George Mason96L99-81
12/3@Towson168L93-80
12/7@Samford206L93-90
12/21@SUNY Albany326W83-75
12/29@Michigan St13L114-97
1/5Columbia204L104-99
1/10Dartmouth249L102-91
1/17@Yale75L102-68
1/19@Brown281W89-67
1/24@Harvard167W86-79
1/30Princeton242W87-64
1/31Penn180L91-81
2/7@Columbia204W88-67
2/13@Princeton242W89-65
2/14@Penn18046%
2/21Harvard16766%
2/27Yale7538%
2/28Brown28184%
3/7@Dartmouth24960%