NCAA Tournament March Madness

#250 Princeton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Princeton’s résumé reads like a team that can win on a given night but has not done enough in the right places to earn an at-large berth, because the profile is built on modest home and neutral victories while being punctured by damaging losses on the road and at neutral sites; nonconference trips to Akron, Kansas and Iona and neutral-site setbacks to Bradley, Temple, Vermont and St Joseph’s PA undercut the program, and heavy defeats at home to Cornell and Columbia and a string of road losses leave little evidence of consistent success away from Jadwin. The Tigers’ best moments, including wins at Columbia and conference victories over Penn, Yale and Brown and a solid showing against Vermont, demonstrate they can compete, but those bright spots are outweighed by bad losses and a lack of quality road or neutral wins that committees prize. With the regular season winding down and only a few remaining chances — a road test at Brown, a home date with Harvard, a home game with Dartmouth and a tough trip to Yale — Princeton’s path to the big dance realistically runs through the Ivy automatic qualifier unless it can string together resume-changing results in those games.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Akron68L104-69
11/11Bucknell331W73-63
11/15@Kansas15L76-57
11/18@Iona257L89-69
11/20Northeastern276W70-57
11/24(N)Bradley131L88-64
11/25(N)Temple161L79-75
11/26(N)Vermont223L79-74
11/30(N)St Joseph's PA155L60-58
12/3@Monmouth NJ207L63-58
12/6@Loyola-Chicago315L73-68
12/10Merrimack162L59-56
12/22@Temple161L65-61
12/30Vermont223W75-69
1/5Penn174W78-76
1/10Yale75W76-60
1/17@Harvard166L87-80
1/19@Dartmouth254L71-69
1/24Brown274W63-53
1/30@Cornell149L87-64
1/31@Columbia191W80-68
2/7@Penn174L61-60
2/13Cornell149L89-65
2/14Columbia191L75-65
2/20@Brown27444%
2/27Harvard16643%
2/28Dartmouth25462%
3/7@Yale758%