NCAA Tournament March Madness

#232 San Jose St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

San Jose State’s season reads like a team with too few quality wins and too many bad losses, which leaves the committee unlikely to hand an at-large invitation and makes the conference tournament the only reliable route in. The resume does feature a neutral-site victory over Loyola-Chicago and home wins over Nevada and San Diego that show the roster can compete in the right circumstances, but those moments are dwarfed by lopsided setbacks at Michigan State and Utah State and a procession of road defeats in conference play, including tough trips to Grand Canyon and Boise State. They’ve had almost no signature neutral-court résumé builder beyond the Loyola-Chicago result, their defense has been exposed away from home, and with a lone regular-season date against Wyoming before the Mountain West tournament their fate now hinges on winning the league title to grab the automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Utah120L84-75
11/8@UC Santa Barbara128L85-74
11/13@Michigan St10L79-60
11/21Southern Univ279W80-66
11/25(N)Tulsa55L81-51
11/26(N)Loyola-Chicago301W63-51
11/30UC Irvine110L72-63
12/5San Diego223W86-69
12/9Long Beach St247W89-83
12/13Stanford61L86-82
12/20@New Mexico48L88-65
12/30San Diego St46L81-68
1/3@Utah St36L96-78
1/6Fresno St126L70-55
1/10@Grand Canyon63L76-58
1/13Air Force345W70-62
1/17UNLV105L76-62
1/20@Nevada74L87-54
1/24@Wyoming97L66-62
1/27Boise St58L89-58
1/31New Mexico48L90-80
2/7@Colorado St83L65-57
2/10@UNLV105L82-75
2/14Grand Canyon63L94-79
2/17Nevada74W87-71
2/21@Boise St58L84-69
2/24@Air Force345W86-80
2/28Colorado St83L85-73
3/3@Fresno St126L82-68
3/7Wyoming9729%