NCAA Tournament March Madness

#99 Oregon

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Projection: likely out

Oregon’s résumé looks shaky because its best moments—road victories at Maryland and at USC and a home win over Wisconsin—are outweighed by damaging neutral-site losses to Gonzaga, Creighton, San Diego State and Auburn and by heavy road defeats at Nebraska and Illinois. The Ducks have posted comfortable home blowouts against lesser opponents but have not accumulated resume-changing wins away from campus and have come up short against the conference’s elite, including Michigan and Michigan State. That combination of a thin slate of truly quality victories and multiple bad losses leaves little margin for error, and with the profile offering limited avenues to add a signature result the projection that Oregon is on the outside looking in is understandable.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Hawaii113W60-59
11/7Rice226W67-63
11/12S Dakota St220W83-69
11/17Oregon St178W87-75
11/24(N)Auburn38L84-73
11/25(N)San Diego St46L97-80
11/27(N)Creighton76L76-66
12/2USC79L82-77
12/6@UCLA27L74-63
12/13UC Davis159W104-62
12/17Portland202W94-69
12/21(N)Gonzaga11L91-82
12/28NE Omaha261W80-57
1/2@Maryland121W64-54
1/5@Rutgers124L88-85
1/8Ohio St26L72-62
1/13@Nebraska14L90-55
1/17Michigan2L81-71
1/20Michigan St10L68-52
1/25@Washington53L72-57
1/28UCLA27L73-57
2/1Iowa25L84-66
2/7@Purdue8L68-64
2/9@Indiana45L92-74
2/14Penn St138W83-72
2/17Minnesota78L61-44
2/21@USC79W71-70
2/25Wisconsin24W85-71
2/28@Northwestern59L63-62
3/3@Illinois7L80-54
3/7Washington53W85-79
3/10(N)Maryland121L70-60