NCAA Tournament March Madness

#131 Seattle

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Seattle’s profile supports the current projection because its résumé contains genuine quality moments — a road victory at Stanford, key road wins at UC Davis and UT San Antonio, and a home statement against Washington — while a stingy defense has been the foundation of those best nights. Those positives are offset by damaging setbacks, including lopsided and repeat losses to Gonzaga and rough trips to St Mary’s, Santa Clara, Portland and San Francisco that erode an at-large case. Neutral court work is uneven after a solid result against Texas State and a narrow loss to UC Santa Barbara, and the offense has struggled to finish tight games away from home. With a sequence of conference matchups still to come against Oregon State, St Mary’s, Portland, Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount, Seattle has clear opportunities to erase the bad results and add the kind of road and neutral wins a selection committee prizes, which is why the view that the team will need the automatic route is believable.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Denver221W84-73
11/8Cal Poly233L73-71
11/12E Washington196W94-67
11/15Idaho St255W83-74
11/21@Stanford76W77-69
11/28(N)Texas St245W66-52
11/29(N)UC Santa Barbara117L74-71
12/7UTEP264W75-68
12/17@UC Davis156W79-78
12/19Washington47W70-66
12/22@UT San Antonio348W71-68
12/28San Francisco130L67-59
12/30Washington St133W69-55
1/2@Gonzaga10L80-72
1/4@St Mary's CA32L93-76
1/8@Oregon St177L68-55
1/15San Diego214W75-64
1/17Gonzaga10L71-50
1/21Loy Marymount152W69-59
1/24@Pacific105L56-54
1/28@Washington St133L70-58
2/4Pepperdine274W83-81
2/7@Portland198L54-53
2/11@Santa Clara39L84-72
2/15Oregon St17771%
2/18St Mary's CA3220%
2/21Portland19874%
2/25@Pepperdine27470%
2/28@Loy Marymount15244%