NCAA Tournament March Madness

#154 Harvard

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Harvard’s profile leaves little margin for error, so the idea that the team will need to secure the Ivy League’s automatic qualification makes sense. The best stretches came in league play, highlighted by wins over Princeton at home and on the road and by road victories at Yale, Cornell and Columbia that show the team can win away from Cambridge. The worst moments are concentrated in nonconference travel, with a heavy defeat at St. John’s, setbacks at Boston College, Massachusetts, Furman and Penn State and a painful neutral-site loss to Boston University that undermine at-large appeal. Because the resume lacks a marquee nonconference signature and contains damaging road losses away from the league, the clearest and most realistic path to the NCAA field is to capture the conference’s automatic qualification, a task the team has shown it can pursue if it brings its Ivy road form into postseason play.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9New Hampshire349W86-75
11/11Northeastern284L77-60
11/15@Army337W75-52
11/16@Marist204W56-54
11/19@Penn St137L84-80
11/22(N)Boston Univ264L75-74
11/26@Boston College161L73-60
11/29Bryant355W56-53
12/3@Massachusetts198L78-71
12/6@Furman203L79-69
12/20Holy Cross330W81-53
12/23@St John's21L85-59
12/28@Colgate245W78-69
1/5Dartmouth268L76-68
1/10@Columbia189W79-54
1/17Princeton246W87-80
1/19Penn162W64-63
1/24Cornell168L86-79
1/30@Brown290W69-59
1/31@Yale82W67-65
2/7@Dartmouth268W71-58
2/13Brown290W56-53
2/14Yale82L76-75
2/21@Cornell168W73-54
2/27@Princeton246W58-56
2/28@Penn162L64-61
3/6Columbia189W81-71