NCAA Tournament March Madness

#282 Denver

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Denver’s resume features signature road wins at Montana State and Colorado State and a gritty home victory over Eastern Washington, but those bright spots are offset by damaging blowouts at Arizona and Wyoming along with losses at Seattle, Washington and a nonconference setback to UT San Antonio, and those lopsided defeats have exposed defensive weaknesses that undercut otherwise respectable offensive performances. The remaining slate gives clear chances to repair the profile with home dates against Missouri KC and NE Omaha and road opportunities at Oral Roberts, S Dakota St, N Dakota St and St Thomas MN as well as matchups at Tulsa and N Colorado that should produce clean wins if handled properly. Put simply, taking care of the manageable conference opponents and avoiding more ugly results away from home is the path back into comfortable consideration, while failing to do that will leave the early losses and defensive lapses as the dominant narrative.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Seattle111L84-73
11/6@Washington59L84-70
11/9@Montana St153W75-73
11/15UT San Antonio258L84-79
11/21@Colorado St68W83-81
11/24@Arizona8L103-73
11/26@Wyoming107L101-59
12/3E Washington245W93-89
12/6@Idaho St17323%
12/13CS Fullerton28763%
12/20@N Colorado15420%
12/22@Tulsa857%
12/31Missouri KC34177%
1/3@St Thomas MN18123%
1/4@St Thomas MN18123%
1/8@S Dakota St16321%
1/10@South Dakota27438%
1/14Oral Roberts30768%
1/22N Dakota St14937%
1/24North Dakota33576%
1/28@Missouri KC34157%
1/31NE Omaha26859%
2/5@N Dakota St14919%
2/7@North Dakota33555%
2/12S Dakota St16340%
2/14@NE Omaha26837%
2/19South Dakota27460%
2/21St Thomas MN18144%
2/26@Oral Roberts30746%