NCAA Tournament March Madness

#143 UC Santa Barbara

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UC Santa Barbara’s résumé features enough bright moments to stay in the conversation while a few ugly results keep questions alive. The Gauchos have shown they can win away from home with a road victory at Cal State Sacramento and they picked up neutral-site wins over Lehigh and Seattle, and they have strong home wins over San Jose State, Long Beach State and Cal State Bakersfield that speak to their offensive firepower. Those positives are tempered by a lopsided neutral loss to Utah Valley, a road setback at Nevada and narrow defeats at Wisconsin Green Bay and at home to Loyola Marymount that expose defensive inconsistency and thin margins for error. With a long conference slate ahead that includes trips to UC San Diego, Hawaii and Long Beach State and key home dates with UC Davis and UC Irvine, the Gauchos have clear opportunities to either solidify their standing with road and neutral victories or to muddy the picture further with more bad losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8San Jose St198W85-74
11/11@CS Sacramento276W92-87
11/17Loy Marymount118L78-74
11/22@Nevada65L77-64
11/28(N)Lehigh319W72-70
11/29(N)Seattle112W74-71
12/4Long Beach St254W84-77
12/6CS Bakersfield306W109-84
12/13(N)Utah Valley82L68-53
12/17@WI Green Bay279L67-64
12/22Portland229W79-61
1/1@CS Fullerton23258%
1/3@CS Northridge20853%
1/8UC Davis16466%
1/15@CS Bakersfield30674%
1/17Hawaii10549%
1/22Cal Poly24479%
1/24@Long Beach St25462%
1/29@UC San Diego8822%
1/31CS Fullerton23278%
2/5@UC Davis16445%
2/7UC Irvine13158%
2/12@UC Riverside25562%
2/14@Cal Poly24460%
2/19CS Northridge20874%
2/22@Hawaii10528%
2/26UC Riverside25581%
2/28@UC Irvine13136%
3/7UC San Diego8842%