NCAA Tournament March Madness

#224 San Diego

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Needing the West Coast Conference title to reach the NCAA field is a fair projection because San Diego’s résumé is a mix of promising showings and damaging losses. The Toreros have proven they can hang with strong opposition when they matched up with Gonzaga at home and when they won on the road at UC San Diego and on a neutral court against Loyola Marymount, and they have home victories over Pepperdine and Washington State that bolster the profile, but those positives are offset by heavy defeats at Washington and at Saint Mary’s and by surprising home losses to UC Riverside and Cal Baptist. The team’s inability to string together quality road or neutral wins and the presence of upsetting nonconference losses leave little room for an at-large case, so the clearest path to the Big Dance runs through a conference tournament championship.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7Idaho St250L71-68
11/12Idaho145W78-74
11/18Grambling298W78-68
11/21UC Riverside258L85-71
11/25(N)Cal Baptist106L76-61
11/30@Long Beach St231L76-72
12/5@San Jose St225L86-69
12/9USC80L94-81
12/13Northern Arizona319W78-69
12/19@UC San Diego118W82-80
12/22@Washington53L86-56
12/28Pacific112W66-54
12/30Gonzaga10L99-93
1/2@San Francisco121L74-64
1/4@Santa Clara35L98-70
1/8Pepperdine264W83-63
1/10@Pacific112L77-70
1/15@Seattle119L75-64
1/21Washington St137W96-92
1/24Santa Clara35L85-73
1/28@Pepperdine264W92-88
1/31Oregon St177L78-76
2/4@St Mary's CA24L87-60
2/7@Loy Marymount161L83-63
2/11Portland202W71-58
2/15San Francisco121L92-79
2/21Loy Marymount161L77-65
2/25@Oregon St177L92-82
2/28@Portland202L87-74
3/5(N)Loy Marymount161W66-62
3/6(N)Seattle119L58-56