NCAA Tournament March Madness

#258 UC Riverside

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UC Riverside’s profile is defined by a few solid wins away at North Dakota and San Diego and convincing home victories over Bakersfield and other conference peers, but those bright spots are overwhelmed by a string of damaging road and home defeats, including heavy losses at blueblood programs like BYU and UCLA and a particularly ugly home loss to Hawaii, plus repeated setbacks against key Big West rivals such as UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara. The offense has flashed in isolated wins yet has been routed on the road and in neutral environments often enough to erode any at-large case, and narrow defeats at places like San Diego and Bakersfield do little to offset the lopsided losses. With a final chance at Hawaii on the schedule, the team can still alter the narrative with a signature road victory, but as it stands the only clean path to the NCAA field runs through winning the conference title.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@North Dakota275W74-70
11/11@New Mexico50L82-68
11/15North Dakota275L76-74
11/18@Cal Baptist106L80-57
11/21@San Diego224W85-71
11/24Grambling298W83-74
11/29@Utah Tech188L77-69
12/4@UC Irvine104L73-60
12/6@Cal Poly211W88-84
12/13@BYU23L100-53
12/20@St Thomas MN109L92-78
12/23@UCLA27L97-65
1/1Hawaii107L88-45
1/8@CS Bakersfield326L67-66
1/10UC San Diego117L69-66
1/15@Long Beach St231L88-73
1/17CS Fullerton168W81-72
1/22UC Irvine104L80-66
1/24@UC Davis158L74-66
1/29Long Beach St231W71-61
1/31Cal Poly211L94-87
2/5@CS Fullerton168L78-72
2/7@CS Northridge175L88-74
2/12UC Santa Barbara130L76-68
2/14@UC San Diego117L72-66
2/19CS Bakersfield326W93-65
2/21UC Davis158L78-73
2/26@UC Santa Barbara130L70-59
2/28CS Northridge175W95-84
3/6@Hawaii107L93-74