NCAA Tournament March Madness

#268 Pepperdine

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Pepperdine has flashed enough to suggest it can compete, with road wins at Portland and CS Bakersfield and solid home victories over Rice and New Orleans, but those moments are overwhelmed by heavy losses to Gonzaga and Saint Mary's and a string of road defeats at programs such as UCLA and Washington State that expose an inability to win away from home or beat a high-end opponent on a neutral court, so with resume damage coming from lopsided conference setbacks and only two regular-season chances left against Seattle at home and Washington State on the road, the clearest way for the Waves to reach the NCAA field is to secure the West Coast Conference's automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@UCLA42L74-63
11/15N Colorado151L88-81
11/18New Orleans188W90-79
11/21SF Austin89L63-60
11/26(N)Fresno St124L76-53
11/29@CS Fullerton174L83-69
12/2Abilene Chr232L71-63
12/6Vermont235L65-56
12/13@CS Bakersfield326W70-62
12/18@Long Beach St243L81-78
12/20Rice236W84-62
12/28Gonzaga9L96-56
12/30St Mary's CA27L72-45
1/2@Santa Clara35L82-63
1/4@Pacific105L74-69
1/8@San Diego225L83-63
1/10San Francisco134L80-60
1/14Portland205W67-63
1/21@Gonzaga9L84-60
1/24@Washington St129L95-79
1/28San Diego225L92-88
2/4@Seattle120L83-81
2/7Pacific105L92-59
2/11@St Mary's CA27L88-60
2/14Loy Marymount139W90-89
2/18@Portland205W95-87
2/21@Oregon St183L83-73
2/25Seattle12029%
2/28Washington St12931%