NCAA Tournament March Madness

#61 Grand Canyon

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Projection: likely out

Grand Canyon’s résumé has flashes that belong on the bubble, highlighted by true road wins at Boise State and at San Diego State and a home victory over San Diego State that show they can beat quality opponents away from familiar comforts, but those signature nights are offset by damaging outings such as a cold-shooting neutral loss to Iowa, a heavy defeat at Saint Louis and home setbacks to New Mexico and Nevada that erode the profile. The defense has been a steady strength while the offense has gone through long stretches of inconsistency, and inconsistent results in league play and away from Phoenix leave the program on the outside looking in. The cleanest path to reverse that standing runs through the Mountain West bracket, where knocking off familiar conference foes like Boise State, Fresno State, New Mexico and San Diego State would replace bad losses with résumé-shaping wins.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3PFW260W90-71
11/7Youngstown St214L90-81
11/10N Illinois333W88-59
11/15@St Louis41L78-64
11/21Northwestern LA281W85-72
11/25(N)Utah126W68-58
11/26(N)Iowa25L59-46
12/2Stetson303W67-45
12/6(N)Oklahoma St66L84-78
12/13Coastal Car247W82-61
12/20@Wyoming98W82-70
12/22IUPUI317W91-78
1/3Colorado St88L70-60
1/7@Boise St62W75-58
1/10San Jose St225W76-58
1/13@New Mexico50L87-64
1/17Utah St30W84-74
1/21San Diego St48W70-69
1/24@Fresno St132W68-57
1/27@Nevada75L66-60
1/30Boise St62W86-69
2/3Air Force345W81-57
2/7@UNLV108L80-78
2/11New Mexico50L70-64
2/14@San Jose St225W94-79
2/17@San Diego St48W73-63
2/21Wyoming98L70-65
2/25UNLV108W80-67
2/28@Utah St30L74-69
3/3@Air Force345W86-60
3/7Fresno St132W85-60
3/12(N)Nevada75L84-80