NCAA Tournament March Madness

#249 Princeton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Princeton’s résumé combines a handful of valuable home wins over Bucknell, Northeastern, Vermont and Penn with a string of damaging road and neutral defeats at Akron, Kansas, Iona and in neutral-site games against Bradley, Temple and St Joseph’s that leave the committee skeptical. The clearest theme is a lack of success away from home, where those losses negate much of the resume-building from its best moments. The remaining Ivy League stretch offers clear chances to change the narrative, starting with a road test at Harvard and including home opportunities against Brown and Dartmouth and a later home game with Harvard, and those results will determine whether the early nonconference setbacks can be erased.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Akron62L104-69
11/11Bucknell312W73-63
11/15@Kansas17L76-57
11/18@Iona216L89-69
11/20Northeastern225W70-57
11/24(N)Bradley136L88-64
11/25(N)Temple144L79-75
11/26(N)Vermont186L79-74
11/30(N)St Joseph's PA218L60-58
12/3@Monmouth NJ221L63-58
12/6@Loyola-Chicago275L73-68
12/10Merrimack247L59-56
12/22@Temple144L65-61
12/30Vermont186W75-69
1/5Penn214W78-76
1/10Yale8219%
1/17@Harvard20029%
1/19@Dartmouth23135%
1/24Brown24460%
1/30@Cornell17024%
1/31@Columbia13317%
2/7@Penn21432%
2/13Cornell17044%
2/14Columbia13335%
2/20@Brown24438%
2/27Harvard20051%
2/28Dartmouth23157%
3/7@Yale828%