NCAA Tournament March Madness

#145 Portland St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Portland State’s résumé reads like a team that can beat its league rivals but hasn’t done enough against high-profile opponents to earn an at-large ticket, so the clearest path is to claim the conference’s automatic berth; its best moments are road and neutral wins over familiar Big Sky foes including Weber State, Idaho State and Montana State and gritty road victories at Sacramento and Northern Arizona, its worst moments are a damaging home loss to Nebraska Omaha and missed chances to turn competitive road games at Stanford, Colorado, San Francisco and Tulane into resume builders, and a late stretch of losses at Montana and Montana State further hollowed out at-large hopes, leaving the conference tournament as the place to create the sort of marquee result that would change the projection.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Stanford62L89-79
11/12@San Francisco120L80-70
11/17CS Bakersfield327W93-80
11/25@Utah Tech185W68-63
12/3@South Dakota281W77-71
12/6NE Omaha262L60-55
12/17@Colorado69L84-73
12/20@Tulane210L63-61
1/1@Weber St197W95-90
1/3@Idaho St250W93-87
1/10CS Sacramento265W96-69
1/15N Colorado140W76-73
1/17Northern Arizona319W63-52
1/22@E Washington165W65-61
1/24@Idaho164W69-66
1/29Montana181L64-60
1/31Montana St132W63-54
2/2Idaho St250W88-65
2/7@CS Sacramento265W74-73
2/12@Northern Arizona319W77-68
2/14@N Colorado140L77-65
2/19Idaho164W77-67
2/21E Washington165L67-55
2/26@Montana St132L84-69
2/28@Montana181L74-68
3/2Weber St197W84-60
3/8(N)Idaho St250W85-78
3/10Montana181L75-72