NCAA Tournament March Madness

#216 Utah Tech

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Utah Tech has flashes that justify hope but not a convincing at-large resume; road wins at South Dakota, Weber State and Abilene Christian and home victories over UC Riverside and Southern Utah show the team can win away from home and close out league games, yet the ugly losses at Arizona and Creighton and other lopsided defeats at Arizona State, Santa Clara and Utah Valley leave clear damage on the resume. A neutral-site setback to Manhattan and the absence of a quality win over a power-conference opponent mean there are no signature victories to offset those bad losses, so the most reliable path to the big dance is to capture the conference’s automatic qualifier. The remaining regular-season games against Southern Utah, Abilene Christian, Tarleton State, UT Arlington, Utah Valley and Cal Baptist are useful chances to build momentum and improve position inside the league, but they do not erase the importance of winning the conference tournament if the team wants to reach the national field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@South Dakota284W81-79
11/7@Arizona2L93-67
11/9@Arizona St92L81-66
11/12(N)Manhattan336L79-75
11/14(N)MS Valley St365W81-75
11/15@Hawaii100L68-62
11/25Portland St157L68-63
11/29UC Riverside273W77-69
12/3@Santa Clara43L90-80
12/20@Weber St195W82-80
12/22@Creighton53L92-69
12/29Southern Utah281W80-66
1/1@Abilene Chr255W79-64
1/8@Cal Baptist136L84-72
1/10@Utah Valley103L92-76
1/15UT Arlington143L56-52
1/17Tarleton St176W75-71
1/21@Cal Baptist136L73-64
1/24Southern Utah28173%
1/29@Abilene Chr25546%
1/31@Tarleton St17632%
2/5UT Arlington14345%
2/12Utah Valley10333%
2/14Cal Baptist13643%
2/19@UT Arlington14325%
2/21@Tarleton St17632%
2/26Abilene Chr25568%
2/28@Southern Utah28152%
3/7Utah Valley10333%