NCAA Tournament March Madness

#91 Oregon

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Projection: likely out

Oregon's profile reads like a team with comfortable home wins and a key road victory but too many damaging defeats to respected opponents away from home and at neutral sites. The resume includes decisive home wins over UC Davis and Portland and a road triumph at Maryland that show the ceiling, yet neutral-site losses to Auburn, San Diego State, Creighton and Gonzaga and heavy road setbacks at Nebraska and UCLA combined with losses to Michigan and Michigan State at home create a credibility problem. Because committees prize road and neutral success and signature wins are scarce, the Ducks' best path forward runs through winning at home against teams such as UCLA, Iowa, Penn State and Minnesota while finding a way to steal a road game at Purdue, Indiana, USC, Northwestern or Illinois. Until Oregon starts converting those home opportunities and avoids damaging road defeats it will likely sit outside the tournament field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Hawaii92W60-59
11/7Rice241W67-63
11/12S Dakota St184W83-69
11/17Oregon St221W87-75
11/24(N)Auburn25L84-73
11/25(N)San Diego St45L97-80
11/27(N)Creighton53L76-66
12/2USC50L82-77
12/6@UCLA41L74-63
12/13UC Davis163W104-62
12/17Portland192W94-69
12/21(N)Gonzaga9L91-82
12/28NE Omaha260W80-57
1/2@Maryland126W64-54
1/5@Rutgers159L88-85
1/8Ohio St38L72-62
1/13@Nebraska12L90-55
1/17Michigan2L81-71
1/20Michigan St4L68-52
1/25@Washington48L72-57
1/28UCLA4138%
2/1Iowa2124%
2/7@Purdue85%
2/9@Indiana3517%
2/14Penn St13373%
2/17Minnesota8458%
2/21@USC5023%
2/25Wisconsin4037%
2/28@Northwestern6029%
3/3@Illinois54%
3/7Washington4842%