NCAA Tournament March Madness

#225 Princeton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Princeton’s resume simply does not give a committee confidence outside of the conference, so the only realistic path into the national field runs through capturing the Ivy automatic bid. The best moments are clear but modest, with home victories over Yale and Penn and nonconference wins against Bucknell and Northeastern, yet those results came in friendly settings and lack the impact of a road or neutral upset over a respected opponent. The worst moments are damaging and very visible, from heavy trips to Akron and Kansas and a road loss at Iona to a string of neutral-site setbacks to Bradley, Temple, Vermont and Saint Joseph’s, a pattern that signals the team struggles away from home. Upcoming Ivy games at Cornell, Columbia, Penn and Yale and home dates against Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Harvard and Dartmouth give Princeton a chance to finish strong, but even a clean sweep of those league tests would not erase the need for a marquee road or neutral victory, so winning the league crown is the clearest route to the bracket.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Akron54L104-69
11/11Bucknell326W73-63
11/15@Kansas14L76-57
11/18@Iona233L89-69
11/20Northeastern254W70-57
11/24(N)Bradley150L88-64
11/25(N)Temple145L79-75
11/26(N)Vermont211L79-74
11/30(N)St Joseph's PA166L60-58
12/3@Monmouth NJ198L63-58
12/6@Loyola-Chicago308L73-68
12/10Merrimack208L59-56
12/22@Temple145L65-61
12/30Vermont211W75-69
1/5Penn193W78-76
1/10Yale70W76-60
1/17@Harvard184L87-80
1/19@Dartmouth237L71-69
1/24Brown266W63-53
1/30@Cornell17830%
1/31@Columbia16227%
2/7@Penn19333%
2/13Cornell17852%
2/14Columbia16248%
2/20@Brown26648%
2/27Harvard18453%
2/28Dartmouth23763%
3/7@Yale709%