NCAA Tournament March Madness

#180 Penn

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Penn’s position tracks because its résumé contains useful midmajor wins and respectable road performances but no signature victory against a top opponent, so the only secure path to the NCAA Tournament is winning the Ivy League’s automatic bid. The high points include gritty road wins at Drexel and Cornell and league victories at home over Princeton and Columbia that show the team can close out tough conference games. The low points are the blowout loss at Providence, the neutral-site thumping by Villanova and a home setback to Yale that damage any at-large case. Close defeats at Rutgers, George Mason and at Harvard and an early narrow loss at Princeton demonstrate competitiveness away from home but remain losses, not résumé-building wins. With a return game against Cornell, trips to Yale and Brown and home dates with Dartmouth and Harvard still on the slate, Penn’s remaining schedule gives it clear chances to seize the Ivy crown and the automatic ticket that appears to be its most realistic route to the tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9@American Univ250L84-78
11/11@Providence63L106-81
11/17St Joseph's PA153W83-74
11/21@Drexel227W84-68
11/28Merrimack169W77-65
11/29La Salle239W73-71
11/30Hofstra102L77-60
12/6(N)Villanova26L90-63
12/8Lafayette327W74-72
12/20@Rutgers161L70-69
12/28@George Mason96L83-79
12/31NJIT303W80-61
1/5@Princeton242L78-76
1/10Brown281W81-73
1/17@Dartmouth249W84-74
1/19@Harvard167L64-63
1/24Yale75L77-60
1/30@Columbia204L72-67
1/31@Cornell144W91-81
2/7Princeton242W61-60
2/13Columbia204W76-67
2/14Cornell14454%
2/21@Yale7515%
2/27Dartmouth24974%
2/28Harvard16759%
3/6@Brown28160%