NCAA Tournament March Madness
#246 Penn
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Projection: need to automatically qualify
Penn’s resume is built on a handful of respectable wins and a clear offensive upside but has been damaged by several ugly road losses to Power Conference opponents and by persistent defensive issues. The Quakers have shown they can score in wins over St. Joseph’s, Drexel, Merrimack and La Salle, yet those victories come against modest opposition and do little to erase the bad losses at American University, Providence, Hofstra and the one-sided trip to Villanova that exposed those defensive problems. Road play has been inconsistent with the Drexel road win standing out while trips to bigger programs have not, so the coming run of games — including road tests at Rutgers, at George Mason and at perennial Ivy contenders at Princeton, at Harvard and at Yale alongside a home date with Princeton and other league matchups — represent clear chances to strengthen the profile or to deepen the concerns that make the team’s position precarious.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/9 | @American Univ | 225 | L84-78 |
| 11/11 | @Providence | 72 | L106-81 |
| 11/17 | St Joseph's PA | 180 | W83-74 |
| 11/21 | @Drexel | 284 | W84-68 |
| 11/28 | Merrimack | 271 | W77-65 |
| 11/29 | La Salle | 252 | W73-71 |
| 11/30 | Hofstra | 119 | L77-60 |
| 12/6 | Villanova | 37 | L90-63 |
| 12/8 | Lafayette | 327 | 77% |
| 12/20 | @Rutgers | 135 | 19% |
| 12/28 | @George Mason | 68 | 7% |
| 12/31 | NJIT | 348 | 84% |
| 1/5 | @Princeton | 269 | 43% |
| 1/10 | Brown | 216 | 56% |
| 1/17 | @Dartmouth | 270 | 43% |
| 1/19 | @Harvard | 208 | 33% |
| 1/24 | Yale | 77 | 20% |
| 1/30 | @Columbia | 129 | 17% |
| 1/31 | @Cornell | 167 | 26% |
| 2/7 | Princeton | 269 | 65% |
| 2/13 | Columbia | 129 | 35% |
| 2/14 | Cornell | 167 | 46% |
| 2/21 | @Yale | 77 | 8% |
| 2/27 | Dartmouth | 270 | 65% |
| 2/28 | Harvard | 208 | 55% |
| 3/6 | @Brown | 216 | 34% |