NCAA Tournament March Madness

#182 Utah Tech

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Utah Tech’s résumé carries credible road wins and a late conference surge that show the team can win away from home, but it lacks the kind of neutral-site signature victories over established power-conference opponents that make a committee comfortable handing an at-large spot. Those encouraging moments are offset by lopsided losses at Arizona and Creighton and damaging setbacks at places like Arizona State and on neutral floors such as Manhattan, which undermine the resume when compared with teams that have beaten higher-caliber opponents. Given that mix of resume-building wins and blemishes, the clearest path to the NCAA field for this club is to secure the conference’s automatic berth, and the remaining trip to Utah Valley is the last chance to polish the case before the league tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@South Dakota283W81-79
11/7@Arizona3L93-67
11/9@Arizona St59L81-66
11/12(N)Manhattan329L79-75
11/14(N)MS Valley St365W81-75
11/15@Hawaii106L68-62
11/25Portland St145L68-63
11/29UC Riverside263W77-69
12/3@Santa Clara39L90-80
12/20@Weber St193W82-80
12/22@Creighton73L92-69
12/29Southern Utah249W80-66
1/1@Abilene Chr238W79-64
1/8@Cal Baptist112L84-72
1/10@Utah Valley85L92-76
1/15UT Arlington160L56-52
1/17Tarleton St212W75-71
1/21@Cal Baptist112L73-64
1/24Southern Utah249W102-91
1/29@Abilene Chr238W76-70
1/31@Tarleton St212W65-59
2/5UT Arlington160W87-84
2/12Utah Valley85W81-77
2/14Cal Baptist112W70-65
2/19@UT Arlington160L63-50
2/21@Tarleton St212W80-72
2/26Abilene Chr238W85-81
2/28@Southern Utah249L81-67
3/7Utah Valley8534%