NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Harvard

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#182 Harvard

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Harvard's season reads like a work in progress. The team has flashed the right stuff with road victories at Army and Marist and a dominant home performance against Holy Cross, and it showed it can hang with a Power Five opponent in a tight game at Penn State. Those bright spots are offset by damaging defeats away from Cambridge, including a heavy loss at St John's and setbacks at Boston College and Furman, plus close nonconference losses to Northeastern and in a neutral-site meeting with Boston University that leave the resume thin. A stretch of Ivy League games and a road trip to Colgate give Harvard clear opportunities to add valuable road and neutral wins and to erase some of the ugly results. Strong showings in those spots would validate the better moments. Conversely, more road slips will make it difficult to overcome the rough nonconference slate.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/9	New Hampshire	331	W86-75
11/11	Northeastern	213	L77-60
11/15	@Army	334	W75-52
11/16	@Marist	155	W56-54
11/19	@Penn St	128	L84-80
11/22	(N)Boston Univ	293	L75-74
11/26	@Boston College	156	L73-60
11/29	Bryant	319	W56-53
12/3	@Massachusetts	175	L78-71
12/6	@Furman	152	L79-69
12/20	Holy Cross	329	W81-53
12/23	@St John's	19	L85-59
12/28	@Colgate	186	W78-69
1/5	Dartmouth	253	73%
1/10	@Columbia	136	28%
1/17	Princeton	256	73%
1/19	Penn	218	67%
1/24	Cornell	163	56%
1/30	@Brown	238	49%
1/31	@Yale	83	14%
2/7	@Dartmouth	253	52%
2/13	Brown	238	71%
2/14	Yale	83	31%
2/21	@Cornell	163	34%
2/27	@Princeton	256	52%
2/28	@Penn	218	46%
3/7	Columbia	136	49%