NCAA Tournament March Madness

#130 Montana St

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Montana State’s profile reads like a team that challenged itself out of conference and showed it can win away from home with a key road victory at Long Beach State and solid head-to-head success against Montana, yet that resume is offset by a string of damaging road losses at power-conference venues such as Colorado, Stanford, Boise State and Oregon State and a surprising home loss to Denver and a rough trip to Idaho State that the committee will view as bad losses. Those headline moments show the Bobcats can hang with good teams and that close losses to quality opponents keep them competitive, but without a signature neutral-site win to balance the blemishes their body of work leaves them leaning toward the bottom of the bracket and likely needing to secure the conference tournament to lock up a bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Colorado64L84-78
11/9Denver220L75-73
11/12@Stanford61L77-68
11/15@Boise St57L62-58
11/21@Long Beach St247W78-72
11/29@Utah St36L84-81
12/3St Thomas MN104W82-74
12/6@Oral Roberts308L72-68
12/13@Oregon St178L67-57
12/16@Cal Poly218W83-80
1/1N Colorado139W89-75
1/3Northern Arizona319W77-68
1/8@E Washington162W68-64
1/10@Idaho173L92-89
1/17Montana188W76-67
1/19@N Colorado139W73-68
1/22Idaho St253W74-62
1/24Weber St193W91-88
1/29@CS Sacramento256L83-80
1/31@Portland St145L63-54
2/5Idaho173W73-66
2/7E Washington162L72-71
2/14@Montana188W82-71
2/19@Weber St193L82-79
2/21@Idaho St253L91-76
2/26Portland St145W84-69
2/28CS Sacramento256W82-61
3/2@Northern Arizona319W76-65