NCAA Tournament March Madness

#142 Pacific

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Pacific's résumé is built around wins over lesser opponents and some useful road and neutral victories, but it lacks a meaningful signature triumph and is blemished by one-sided losses to power-conference opponents and a narrow defeat at Nevada. Road wins at Cal State Fullerton and Air Force and neutral-site victories over Stony Brook and Jacksonville show the team can win away from home, yet nonconference trips to Florida Atlantic and especially to BYU exposed an inability to hang with high-end teams. A competitive outing at California suggests they can rise for certain road tests, but the body of work still reads like a midlevel league profile rather than one with top-tier quality wins. The remaining West Coast slate offers clear pathways to improve with road tests at San Diego, Santa Clara and Oregon State and home chances against San Francisco and Saint Mary's, while an upset in Spokane would be transformative. Until those road and neutral opportunities produce signature victories the outlook will hinge on avoiding damaging losses and collecting the expected conference wins.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Nevada66L78-77
11/12Long Beach St257W69-66
11/15@CS Fullerton232W85-73
11/20@FL Atlantic111L82-59
11/24(N)Stony Brook247W86-58
11/25(N)Jacksonville317W68-53
11/29CS Sacramento276W68-54
12/3@Air Force324W80-65
12/6@California73L67-61
12/16@BYU10L93-57
12/21Nicholls St223W95-82
12/28@San Diego194L66-54
12/30@Loy Marymount11933%
1/2Oregon St17871%
1/4Pepperdine26683%
1/8@Portland23059%
1/10San Diego19473%
1/14@Santa Clara6017%
1/17@Oregon St17849%
1/24Seattle11252%
1/28Portland23078%
1/31@San Francisco9826%
2/4Santa Clara6035%
2/7@Pepperdine26665%
2/11Loy Marymount11955%
2/14St Mary's CA3220%
2/18@Washington St15844%
2/21@Gonzaga52%
2/28San Francisco9847%