NCAA Tournament March Madness

#152 Harvard

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Harvard’s résumé leans toward automatic qualification because its most important wins have come on the road against conference rivals at Columbia, Princeton, Cornell and Yale, showing the team can win away from home when it matters most. Those signature Ivy moments offset a nonconference slate that was compromised by damaging trips to St. John’s and Boston College and neutral-site setbacks to Northeastern and Boston University. With remaining Ivy opportunities still available, Harvard controls the clearest path to the automatic berth by protecting its head‑to‑head position and avoiding any more bad losses. The combination of authoritative league road wins and a shaky nonconference record is exactly the profile that points to an automatic spot.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9New Hampshire349W86-75
11/11Northeastern286L77-60
11/15@Army337W75-52
11/16@Marist204W56-54
11/19@Penn St138L84-80
11/22(N)Boston Univ261L75-74
11/26@Boston College156L73-60
11/29Bryant355W56-53
12/3@Massachusetts196L78-71
12/6@Furman191L79-69
12/20Holy Cross329W81-53
12/23@St John's17L85-59
12/28@Colgate249W78-69
1/5Dartmouth274L76-68
1/10@Columbia189W79-54
1/17Princeton252W87-80
1/19Penn150W64-63
1/24Cornell164L86-79
1/30@Brown290W69-59
1/31@Yale81W67-65
2/7@Dartmouth274W71-58
2/13Brown290W56-53
2/14Yale81L76-75
2/21@Cornell164W73-54
2/27@Princeton252W58-56
2/28@Penn150L64-61
3/6Columbia189W81-71
3/14(N)Penn150L62-60