NCAA Tournament March Madness

#150 Montana St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Montana State’s résumé reads like a team with flashes of quality but not enough signature work, because its best moments — a road victory at Long Beach State and conference wins at Northern Colorado, Eastern Washington and home versus rival Montana — are offset by damaging results such as the home loss to Denver and a string of tight defeats away at Colorado, Stanford, Boise State, Oregon State and Utah State plus a nonconference setback at Oral Roberts. Those results leave the committee with few true high-end wins and several blemishes away from Worthy neutral-site success, so their path to the field hinges on how they handle the final gauntlet. Upcoming league games at Montana and at Weber State along with home dates with Sacramento and Portland State and trips to Idaho State and Northern Arizona are clear chances to erase the bad losses and build an at-large case otherwise the conference championship becomes a necessity.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Colorado73L84-78
11/9Denver221L75-73
11/12@Stanford74L77-68
11/15@Boise St58L62-58
11/21@Long Beach St240W78-72
11/29@Utah St25L84-81
12/3St Thomas MN120W82-74
12/6@Oral Roberts332L72-68
12/13@Oregon St180L67-57
12/16@Cal Poly225W83-80
1/1N Colorado147W89-75
1/3Northern Arizona313W77-68
1/8@E Washington197W68-64
1/10@Idaho179L92-89
1/17Montana157W76-67
1/19@N Colorado147W73-68
1/22Idaho St254W74-62
1/24Weber St214W91-88
1/29@CS Sacramento250L83-80
1/31@Portland St143L63-54
2/5Idaho179W73-66
2/7E Washington197L72-71
2/14@Montana15740%
2/19@Weber St21451%
2/21@Idaho St25460%
2/26Portland St14359%
2/28CS Sacramento25079%
3/2@Northern Arizona31375%