NCAA Tournament March Madness

#150 Penn

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Penn’s body of work points to the Ivy automatic bid as the clearest path to the NCAA Tournament because the nonconference resume is marred by road setbacks at Providence and Rutgers, a neutral-site drubbing at Villanova, and other damaging losses away from home that give the committee little incentive to override the lack of a marquee win. The best parts of the resume are a late run through the league that includes neutral-site victories over Harvard and Yale and resume-enhancing road wins such as the trip to Cornell and the win at Drexel, which show the team can win away from its gym and rise to big moments. Those bright spots are outweighed by home and midseason stumbles like the defeat to Hofstra and earlier road losses that leave Penn short on a signature nonconference scalp, so unless it earns the automatic berth by winning the Ivy crown there is too much downside for a reliable at-large case.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9@American Univ238L84-78
11/11@Providence71L106-81
11/17St Joseph's PA116W83-74
11/21@Drexel222W84-68
11/28Merrimack179W77-65
11/29La Salle233W73-71
11/30Hofstra87L77-60
12/6(N)Villanova33L90-63
12/8Lafayette325W74-72
12/20@Rutgers124L70-69
12/28@George Mason96L83-79
12/31NJIT332W80-61
1/5@Princeton252L78-76
1/10Brown290W81-73
1/17@Dartmouth274W84-74
1/19@Harvard152L64-63
1/24Yale81L77-60
1/30@Columbia189L72-67
1/31@Cornell164W91-81
2/7Princeton252W61-60
2/13Columbia189W76-67
2/14Cornell164W82-76
2/21@Yale81L74-70
2/27Dartmouth274W80-71
2/28Harvard152W64-61
3/6@Brown290W82-61
3/14(N)Harvard152W62-60
3/15(N)Yale81W88-84