NCAA Tournament March Madness

#118 UC San Diego

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Projection: likely out

UC San Diego sits on the wrong side of the bubble because its resume is built around a handful of impressive neutral-site and road wins, like victories over Temple and Tulane and the trips to Fresno State and UC Davis, but those bright spots are outweighed by damaging home losses to UC Santa Barbara and Cal State Fullerton and ugly defeats at Nevada and Cal State Northridge that expose inconsistency. The defense has been a strength while the offense has been uneven, which turned winnable conference tests against UC Irvine and Cal Poly into résumé-draining setbacks. With the conference slate still offering chances to pick up meaningful road or neutral wins against familiar foes such as UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine and Long Beach State the Tritons can still improve their standing, yet the current combination of quality victories and damaging losses explains why they project outside the field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8Houston Chr292W78-60
11/12@Fresno St132W78-73
11/15Idaho145W75-67
11/24(N)Temple165W91-76
11/25(N)Bradley123W87-77
11/26(N)Towson157W87-73
12/2@Nevada75L76-70
12/6@Long Beach St231W80-74
12/13(N)Tulane211W93-67
12/16@Loy Marymount161W67-57
12/19San Diego224L82-80
1/1@Cal Poly212L67-65
1/3Hawaii107W83-73
1/8CS Fullerton168L88-71
1/10@UC Riverside258W69-66
1/15CS Northridge175L84-79
1/17@CS Bakersfield326W83-62
1/22@UC Davis159W80-74
1/24UC Irvine104L61-59
1/29UC Santa Barbara130L62-48
1/31@CS Northridge175L81-64
2/5Long Beach St231W77-74
2/7@Hawaii107L72-67
2/12UC Davis159W68-51
2/14UC Riverside258W72-66
2/21@UC Irvine104W71-69
2/26CS Bakersfield326W84-72
2/28Cal Poly212W80-64
3/5@CS Fullerton168L75-71
3/7@UC Santa Barbara130W64-63
3/11(N)Cal Poly212W72-69
3/12(N)CS Northridge175L80-70