NCAA Tournament March Madness

#138 Portland St

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Portland State’s résumé looks the way it does because it pairs a string of solid conference victories and a few rugged road wins with damaging nonconference losses at Stanford, San Francisco, Colorado and Tulane that make it clear the team has not yet beaten a power-conference opponent away from home. The Vikings have shown they can defend and grind out results in places like Utah Tech, South Dakota and Weber State and they have comfortable home wins over Sacramento State and Idaho State, but those wins come against lesser opposition and do little to erase the hurt of true road defeats. The remaining slate includes road tests at Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado and home chances against Idaho, Eastern Washington and Weber State, and unless Portland State starts picking up meaningful results away from its arena it will still be leaning on a conference-tournament run to lock up a spot.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Stanford74L89-79
11/12@San Francisco112L80-70
11/17CS Bakersfield319W93-80
11/25@Utah Tech194W68-63
12/3@South Dakota276W77-71
12/6NE Omaha256L60-55
12/17@Colorado71L84-73
12/20@Tulane200L63-61
1/1@Weber St216W95-90
1/3@Idaho St232W93-87
1/10CS Sacramento248W96-69
1/15N Colorado163W76-73
1/17Northern Arizona313W63-52
1/22@E Washington215W65-61
1/24@Idaho181W69-66
1/29Montana159L64-60
1/31Montana St155W63-54
2/2Idaho St232W88-65
2/7@CS Sacramento248W74-73
2/12@Northern Arizona31377%
2/14@N Colorado16344%
2/19Idaho18171%
2/21E Washington21575%
2/26@Montana St15543%
2/28@Montana15944%
3/2Weber St21676%