NCAA Tournament March Madness

#269 Denver

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Denver’s profile reads like a team that will have to win its conference tournament to get into the field because its season is a study in extremes: the best moments are gritty road wins at Montana State and Colorado State and a pair of victories over Missouri Kansas City that show it can close tough games away from home, but those highlights are outweighed by ugly blowouts at Arizona and Wyoming and nonconference setbacks at home to UT San Antonio and Cal State Fullerton that damage any at-large case. The defense has been vulnerable in hostile environments and the nonconference slate produced too few recognizable résumé builders, so the committee will notice the scarcity of quality neutral or marquee wins. The rest of the schedule still offers clear chances to improve with home dates against South Dakota and Oral Roberts and road tests at North Dakota, North Dakota State, NE Omaha and St. Thomas where a big road victory or a clean sweep of the remaining conference slate could flip the narrative before the league tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Seattle124L84-73
11/6@Washington46L84-70
11/9@Montana St156W75-73
11/15UT San Antonio346L84-79
11/21@Colorado St98W83-81
11/24@Arizona2L103-73
11/26@Wyoming106L101-59
12/3E Washington232W93-89
12/6@Idaho St218L93-79
12/13CS Fullerton189L105-86
12/20@N Colorado186W86-79
12/22@Tulsa55L90-85
12/31Missouri KC353W87-74
1/4@St Thomas MN130L92-88
1/8@S Dakota St191L87-79
1/10@South Dakota286L82-72
1/14Oral Roberts333W98-87
1/22N Dakota St125L82-77
1/24North Dakota272L93-86
1/28@Missouri KC353W69-61
1/31NE Omaha255L84-82
2/5@N Dakota St12514%
2/7@North Dakota27239%
2/12S Dakota St19144%
2/14@NE Omaha25535%
2/19South Dakota28665%
2/21St Thomas MN13031%
2/26@Oral Roberts33356%