NCAA Tournament March Madness

#184 Utah Tech

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Utah Tech projects as a team that will need to secure its conference’s automatic bid because its résumé mixes eye‑opening road victories at South Dakota and Weber State and solid wins over Utah Valley and Abilene Christian with ugly blowouts at Arizona and Creighton and damaging neutral-site setbacks against Manhattan and Arizona State, leaving few signature wins to sell to a committee. The program has shown it can win away from home and close tense games, yet inconsistent results at Cal Baptist and Santa Clara and the lopsided losses to power programs make its profile vulnerable. The remaining slate, highlighted by a home date with Cal Baptist, road tests at UT Arlington and Tarleton State and a trip to Southern Utah, gives clear opportunities to add resume-changing road or neutral victories but also leaves the door open for its season to hinge on claiming the automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@South Dakota282W81-79
11/7@Arizona2L93-67
11/9@Arizona St71L81-66
11/12(N)Manhattan329L79-75
11/14(N)MS Valley St365W81-75
11/15@Hawaii91L68-62
11/25Portland St143L68-63
11/29UC Riverside277W77-69
12/3@Santa Clara39L90-80
12/20@Weber St216W82-80
12/22@Creighton78L92-69
12/29Southern Utah266W80-66
1/1@Abilene Chr234W79-64
1/8@Cal Baptist118L84-72
1/10@Utah Valley86L92-76
1/15UT Arlington166L56-52
1/17Tarleton St211W75-71
1/21@Cal Baptist118L73-64
1/24Southern Utah266W102-91
1/29@Abilene Chr234W76-70
1/31@Tarleton St211W65-59
2/5UT Arlington166W87-84
2/12Utah Valley86W81-77
2/14Cal Baptist11846%
2/19@UT Arlington16636%
2/21@Tarleton St21144%
2/26Abilene Chr23471%
2/28@Southern Utah26657%
3/7Utah Valley8636%