NCAA Tournament March Madness

#263 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 Dakota282W74-70
11/11@New Mexico48L82-68
11/15North Dakota282L76-74
11/18@Cal Baptist112L80-57
11/21@San Diego223W85-71
11/24Grambling297W83-74
11/29@Utah Tech182L77-69
12/4@UC Irvine110L73-60
12/6@Cal Poly218W88-84
12/13@BYU24L100-53
12/20@St Thomas MN103L92-78
12/23@UCLA34L97-65
1/1Hawaii106L88-45
1/8@CS Bakersfield322L67-66
1/10UC San Diego114L69-66
1/15@Long Beach St247L88-73
1/17CS Fullerton171W81-72
1/22UC Irvine110L80-66
1/24@UC Davis152L74-66
1/29Long Beach St247W71-61
1/31Cal Poly218L94-87
2/5@CS Fullerton171L78-72
2/7@CS Northridge167L88-74
2/12UC Santa Barbara128L76-68
2/14@UC San Diego114L72-66
2/19CS Bakersfield322W93-65
2/21UC Davis152L78-73
2/26@UC Santa Barbara128L70-59
2/28CS Northridge167W95-84
3/5@Hawaii106L93-74