NCAA Tournament March Madness

#168 Cornell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cornell's profile makes sense as a team that will need the league's automatic berth because its offense has flashed in road wins at Harvard and Princeton and in home victories such as Colgate and a dominant trip to Bucknell, yet those bright spots are offset by ugly losses on the road at Michigan State and Yale and damaging home setbacks to Columbia and Penn that expose a porous defense and inconsistent road resume, and with close defeats to mid-majors and several nonconference stumbles there is no signature neutral-court victory to sell the committee on an at-large case, so the remaining trip to Dartmouth is the last chance to build momentum before the league tournament where securing the automatic spot is the clearest path to the national field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Kent156L110-102
11/9@Illinois St95L76-65
11/13@Lafayette327W97-78
11/18Army337W86-73
11/20Colgate245W95-94
11/30@Bucknell331W101-72
12/2@George Mason109L99-81
12/3@Towson174L93-80
12/7@Samford210L93-90
12/21@SUNY Albany325W83-75
12/29@Michigan St10L114-97
1/5Columbia189L104-99
1/10Dartmouth268L102-91
1/17@Yale81L102-68
1/19@Brown290W89-67
1/24@Harvard154W86-79
1/30Princeton246W87-64
1/31Penn162L91-81
2/7@Columbia189W88-67
2/13@Princeton246W89-65
2/14@Penn162L82-76
2/21Harvard154L73-54
2/27Yale81W72-69
2/28Brown290W86-80
3/7@Dartmouth26860%