NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Penn

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#218 Penn

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Penn’s profile is a mix of encouraging signs and damaging results that leave its fate hinging on what comes next. The résumé includes a meaningful road victory at Drexel and a solid nonconference win over St Joseph’s PA that show the team can win away from campus, but those positives are outweighed by heavy defeats at Providence and in the neutral‑site game against Villanova and another poor defensive outing at Hofstra, which expose real weaknesses. A close loss at Rutgers suggests the team can hang with better opponents but still counts as a missed opportunity, and the remaining nonconference game at George Mason and the home date with NJIT represent clear chances to add resume‑helping results. The Ivy League grind will be decisive because road wins at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia or Cornell would burnish the résumé in a way home victories cannot, while losses in those settings would further compound the damage from the early lopsided defeats.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/9	@American Univ	254	L84-78
11/11	@Providence	75	L106-81
11/17	St Joseph's PA	197	W83-74
11/21	@Drexel	288	W84-68
11/28	Merrimack	263	W77-65
11/29	La Salle	261	W73-71
11/30	Hofstra	103	L77-60
12/6	(N)Villanova	25	L90-63
12/8	Lafayette	323	W74-72
12/20	@Rutgers	159	L70-69
12/28	@George Mason	87	L83-79
12/31	NJIT	354	89%
1/5	@Princeton	256	45%
1/10	Brown	238	64%
1/17	@Dartmouth	253	45%
1/19	@Harvard	182	33%
1/24	Yale	83	25%
1/30	@Columbia	136	22%
1/31	@Cornell	163	28%
2/7	Princeton	256	67%
2/13	Columbia	136	42%
2/14	Cornell	163	49%
2/21	@Yale	83	11%
2/27	Dartmouth	253	67%
2/28	Harvard	182	54%
3/6	@Brown	238	42%