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 St249L71-68
11/12Idaho165W78-74
11/18Grambling298W78-68
11/21UC Riverside260L85-71
11/25(N)Cal Baptist112L76-61
11/30@Long Beach St234L76-72
12/5@San Jose St237L86-69
12/9USC77L94-81
12/13Northern Arizona320W78-69
12/19@UC San Diego113W82-80
12/22@Washington54L86-56
12/28Pacific111W66-54
12/30Gonzaga10L99-93
1/2@San Francisco119L74-64
1/4@Santa Clara37L98-70
1/8Pepperdine263W83-63
1/10@Pacific111L77-70
1/15@Seattle118L75-64
1/21Washington St137W96-92
1/24Santa Clara37L85-73
1/28@Pepperdine263W92-88
1/31Oregon St179L78-76
2/4@St Mary's CA22L87-60
2/7@Loy Marymount161L83-63
2/11Portland196W71-58
2/15San Francisco119L92-79
2/21Loy Marymount161L77-65
2/25@Oregon St179L92-82
2/28@Portland196L87-74
3/5(N)Loy Marymount161W66-62
3/6(N)Seattle118L58-56