NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Harvard

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#207 Harvard

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Harvard's résumé mixes encouraging road flashes with damaging setbacks, as a competitive outing at Penn State and true road wins at Army and Marist show the team can handle travel but most victories have come against inferior opponents. Ugly defeats to Northeastern, Boston College, UMass and Furman, along with a narrow neutral loss to Boston University, have blunted the impact of that road toughness and left the nonconference ledger thin. The remainder of the schedule hands Harvard clear chances to alter the narrative, most notably the road tests at St John’s and Colgate and the critical Ivy road dates at Yale and Princeton, while home meetings with league rivals offer paths to pile up resume-friendly wins. Unless those opportunities produce a marquee victory or a dominant finish in league play the season’s trajectory will likely come down to performance in the Ivy League tournament.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/9	New Hampshire	338	W86-75
11/11	Northeastern	209	L77-60
11/15	@Army	336	W75-52
11/16	@Marist	155	W56-54
11/19	@Penn St	106	L84-80
11/22	(N)Boston Univ	298	L75-74
11/26	@Boston College	138	L73-60
11/29	Bryant	307	W56-53
12/3	@Massachusetts	161	L78-71
12/6	@Furman	152	L79-69
12/20	Holy Cross	293	75%
12/23	@St John's	16	2%
12/28	@Colgate	165	31%
1/5	Dartmouth	257	69%
1/10	@Columbia	130	22%
1/17	Princeton	269	71%
1/19	Penn	248	67%
1/24	Cornell	167	53%
1/30	@Brown	222	41%
1/31	@Yale	78	11%
2/7	@Dartmouth	257	47%
2/13	Brown	222	64%
2/14	Yale	78	25%
2/21	@Cornell	167	31%
2/27	@Princeton	269	50%
2/28	@Penn	248	45%
3/7	Columbia	130	42%