NCAA Tournament March Madness

#164 Cornell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cornell's résumé leaves little doubt about why the projection calls for an Ivy automatic: the best moments came in league play and included road wins at traditional Ivy venues and a narrow home victory over Colgate, but those bright spots are offset by a string of damaging nonconference road defeats and a bruising loss at Michigan State that exposed the team's defensive weaknesses; the Big Red did not collect signature neutral-site or true road victories against top-tier opponents and they split outcomes with Yale while taking a tough neutral-court setback, so the committee will focus on the short list of quality wins within the league and expect Cornell to secure the tournament berth by winning the Ivy rather than relying on at-large credentials.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Kent148L110-102
11/9@Illinois St103L76-65
11/13@Lafayette325W97-78
11/18Army337W86-73
11/20Colgate249W95-94
11/30@Bucknell331W101-72
12/2@George Mason96L99-81
12/3@Towson157L93-80
12/7@Samford215L93-90
12/21@SUNY Albany324W83-75
12/29@Michigan St9L114-97
1/5Columbia189L104-99
1/10Dartmouth274L102-91
1/17@Yale81L102-68
1/19@Brown290W89-67
1/24@Harvard152W86-79
1/30Princeton252W87-64
1/31Penn150L91-81
2/7@Columbia189W88-67
2/13@Princeton252W89-65
2/14@Penn150L82-76
2/21Harvard152L73-54
2/27Yale81W72-69
2/28Brown290W86-80
3/7@Dartmouth274W111-90
3/14(N)Yale81L88-76