NCAA Tournament March Madness

#130 UC Santa Barbara

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UC Santa Barbara’s résumé has high-water marks like a home victory over UC Irvine and neutral-site wins against Seattle and Lehigh, but those moments are overwhelmed by damaging setbacks away at Nevada and CS Fullerton and by neutral losses to Utah Valley and to UC Davis; struggles in hostile environments, from narrow defeats at Wisconsin Green Bay to losses at Cal Poly and at CS Northridge, undercut any at-large argument. The most eye-catching wins arrived against lesser opponents at home and do not erase the committee-harming blemishes of poor road and neutral results, and with the late neutral-site defeat to UC Davis still on the résumé the clearest path to the tournament runs through the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8San Jose St225W85-74
11/11@CS Sacramento265W92-87
11/17Loy Marymount161L78-74
11/22@Nevada75L77-64
11/28(N)Lehigh284W72-70
11/29(N)Seattle119W74-71
12/4Long Beach St231W84-77
12/6CS Bakersfield326W109-84
12/13(N)Utah Valley90L68-53
12/17@WI Green Bay210L67-64
12/22Portland202W79-61
1/1@CS Fullerton168L95-84
1/3@CS Northridge175L74-65
1/8UC Davis159L93-86
1/15@CS Bakersfield326W75-69
1/17Hawaii107W77-62
1/22Cal Poly212W107-67
1/24@Long Beach St231W74-71
1/29@UC San Diego118W62-48
1/31CS Fullerton168W83-69
2/5@UC Davis159L85-75
2/7UC Irvine104W84-79
2/12@UC Riverside258W76-68
2/14@Cal Poly212L89-79
2/19CS Northridge175L85-83
2/21@Hawaii107L78-75
2/26UC Riverside258W70-59
2/28@UC Irvine104L64-60
3/7UC San Diego118L64-63
3/11(N)UC Davis159L79-73