NCAA Tournament March Madness

#231 Long Beach St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Long Beach State’s resume leaves little margin for error because its few high-profile chances were squandered and most meaningful wins came against middling conference foes; the nonconference schedule includes damaging road defeats at San Diego State and Iowa State that outweigh sturdy home victories over San Diego and Pepperdine, and the only true road triumphs of note came at CS Bakersfield and Hawaii while close defeats at Pacific, San Jose State and UC Santa Barbara underline competitiveness without a signature scalp. The pattern is clear: acceptable offense and defense numbers on paper but an inability to win away from home and a lack of top-end victories means the safest route to the NCAA field is by taking the Big West crown rather than hoping for an at-large nod.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@San Diego St48L77-45
11/8@Fresno St132L82-62
11/12@Pacific112L69-66
11/16Illinois St103L82-80
11/21Montana St133L78-72
11/26@Portland202L93-73
11/30San Diego224W76-72
12/4@UC Santa Barbara130L84-77
12/6UC San Diego118L80-74
12/9@San Jose St225L89-83
12/18Pepperdine264W81-78
12/21@Iowa St6L91-60
1/3Cal Poly212W74-66
1/8@UC Irvine104L74-64
1/10CS Bakersfield326W81-75
1/15UC Riverside258W88-73
1/17@CS Northridge175W87-80
1/22@CS Fullerton168L71-61
1/24UC Santa Barbara130L74-71
1/29@UC Riverside258L71-61
1/31Hawaii107L89-82
2/5@UC San Diego118L77-74
2/12CS Fullerton168L86-82
2/14@UC Davis159L71-54
2/19UC Irvine104L69-58
2/21CS Northridge175L78-76
2/26@Cal Poly212L102-92
2/28@CS Bakersfield326W88-87
3/5UC Davis159L76-70
3/8@Hawaii107W84-75