NCAA Tournament March Madness

#251 Princeton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Princeton’s résumé leaves little room for a committee to hand out an at-large invitation, so the only sure path into the field is to win the Ivy League’s automatic berth. The team’s best moments came in league play with home victories over Yale and Penn and a road success at Columbia, but those league wins do not offset heavy setbacks away from campus, most notably the bruising losses at Kansas and Akron and a string of neutral and road defeats against mid-major opponents such as Bradley, Temple, Iona and Loyola‑Chicago that undercut nonconference credibility. With road and neutral-site success scarce and the signature wins that committee voters favor absent, the conference tournament is the singular opportunity to flip the profile and earn a spot in the big dance.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Akron61L104-69
11/11Bucknell331W73-63
11/15@Kansas19L76-57
11/18@Iona259L89-69
11/20Northeastern283W70-57
11/24(N)Bradley122L88-64
11/25(N)Temple162L79-75
11/26(N)Vermont235L79-74
11/30(N)St Joseph's PA121L60-58
12/3@Monmouth NJ181L63-58
12/6@Loyola-Chicago293L73-68
12/10Merrimack174L59-56
12/22@Temple162L65-61
12/30Vermont235W75-69
1/5Penn163W78-76
1/10Yale78W76-60
1/17@Harvard149L87-80
1/19@Dartmouth274L71-69
1/24Brown287W63-53
1/30@Cornell159L87-64
1/31@Columbia190W80-68
2/7@Penn163L61-60
2/13Cornell159L89-65
2/14Columbia190L75-65
2/20@Brown287L80-71
2/27Harvard149L58-56
2/28Dartmouth274W82-61
3/7@Yale78L78-53