NCAA Tournament March Madness

#34 UCLA

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Projected seed: 8

UCLA's résumé reads like a team that can make big statements at home but still gets exposed away from campus, with strong home victories over Purdue, Illinois and Nebraska counterbalanced by neutral-site setbacks to Arizona and Gonzaga that show they can compete with top programs but haven't closed those games. The Bruins have quality road wins at Oregon and at Penn State yet also suffered ugly true-road losses at Michigan and Michigan State and in other conference trips to Wisconsin and Ohio State, and that pattern of inconsistency away from home undercuts the resume-building nonconference wins over lesser opponents. With a remaining road date at USC, there is a clear opportunity to turn the away-game narrative into evidence of growth and firmly cement their case for the field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3E Washington162W80-74
11/7Pepperdine265W74-63
11/10West Georgia304W83-62
11/14(N)Arizona3L69-65
11/18CS Sacramento256W79-48
11/21Presbyterian278W86-46
11/25(N)California70L80-72
12/3@Washington52W82-80
12/6Oregon100W74-63
12/13(N)Gonzaga11L82-72
12/17Arizona St59W90-77
12/19Cal Poly218W108-87
12/23UC Riverside264W97-65
1/3@Iowa23L74-61
1/6@Wisconsin25L80-72
1/10Maryland134W67-55
1/14@Penn St137W71-60
1/17@Ohio St27L86-74
1/20Purdue7W69-67
1/24Northwestern65W71-64
1/28@Oregon100W73-57
1/31Indiana41L98-97
2/3Rutgers133W98-66
2/7Washington52W77-73
2/14@Michigan2L86-56
2/17@Michigan St10L82-59
2/21Illinois5W95-94
2/24USC69W81-62
2/28@Minnesota72L78-73
3/3Nebraska12W72-52
3/7@USC6960%