NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Penn

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#178 Penn

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Penn’s résumé shows solid wins but is marred by damaging losses that leave an at-large case thin. The Quakers’ best moments — a road victory at Drexel and home wins over St. Joseph’s and Brown along with a road triumph at Dartmouth — are offset by lopsided setbacks at Providence and Villanova and by road defeats at Rutgers, George Mason and in Ivy play, including narrow losses at Princeton and Harvard, which underline a lack of consistent success away from home. Lacking a marquee neutral-site scalp and with the remainder of the calendar filled by Ivy League opponents, the clearest path to the NCAA field is securing the conference’s automatic berth, with the home meeting against Princeton and road trips to Columbia, Cornell and Yale as the opportunities to change the committee’s view.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/9	@American Univ	210	L84-78
11/11	@Providence	64	L106-81
11/17	St Joseph's PA	173	W83-74
11/21	@Drexel	207	W84-68
11/28	Merrimack	209	W77-65
11/29	La Salle	219	W73-71
11/30	Hofstra	109	L77-60
12/6	(N)Villanova	24	L90-63
12/8	Lafayette	316	W74-72
12/20	@Rutgers	142	L70-69
12/28	@George Mason	73	L83-79
12/31	NJIT	331	W80-61
1/5	@Princeton	231	L78-76
1/10	Brown	265	W81-73
1/17	@Dartmouth	225	W84-74
1/19	@Harvard	171	L64-63
1/24	Yale	79	31%
1/30	@Columbia	168	37%
1/31	@Cornell	187	41%
2/7	Princeton	231	70%
2/13	Columbia	168	59%
2/14	Cornell	187	63%
2/21	@Yale	79	15%
2/27	Dartmouth	225	69%
2/28	Harvard	171	59%
3/6	@Brown	265	56%