NCAA Tournament March Madness

#155 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@Colorado71L84-78
11/9Denver236L75-73
11/12@Stanford74L77-68
11/15@Boise St53L62-58
11/21@Long Beach St231W78-72
11/29@Utah St26L84-81
12/3St Thomas MN117W82-74
12/6@Oral Roberts334L72-68
12/13@Oregon St210L67-57
12/16@Cal Poly247W83-80
1/1N Colorado163W89-75
1/3Northern Arizona313W77-68
1/8@E Washington215W68-64
1/10@Idaho181L92-89
1/17Montana159W76-67
1/19@N Colorado163W73-68
1/22Idaho St232W74-62
1/24Weber St216W91-88
1/29@CS Sacramento248L83-80
1/31@Portland St138L63-54
2/5Idaho181W73-66
2/7E Washington215L72-71
2/14@Montana15940%
2/19@Weber St21651%
2/21@Idaho St23256%
2/26Portland St13857%
2/28CS Sacramento24878%
3/2@Northern Arizona31374%