NCAA Tournament March Madness

#126 Utah

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Utah’s projection is logical because the résumé has a couple of believable high points—a neutral-site victory over Mississippi, a gritty road triumph at West Virginia and a home win over TCU—but those bright spots are swamped by a long list of damaging defeats, including lopsided losses to Arizona and Houston and painful road setbacks at Baylor, Kansas, BYU and Texas Tech that reveal the team’s trouble winning away from home. Nonconference wins mostly come against inferior opponents and do little to offset the committee damage from those blemishes, and with no easier regular season chances left the only clear path to the national tournament is a deep run in the conference postseason, which is why the current projection that Utah must secure the automatic entry makes sense.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3San Jose St224W84-75
11/8Weber St199W92-89
11/10Holy Cross329W87-69
11/15Sam Houston St111W85-79
11/18PFW260W85-77
11/20Cal Poly212L92-85
11/25(N)Grand Canyon61L68-58
11/26(N)Mississippi65W75-74
12/2@California73L79-72
12/6Cal Baptist108W91-85
12/13(N)Mississippi St101L82-74
12/20E Washington171W101-77
12/29@Washington53L74-65
1/3Arizona3L97-78
1/7@Colorado70L85-73
1/10BYU23L89-84
1/14@Texas Tech19L88-74
1/17TCU43W82-79
1/20@Kansas St100L81-78
1/24@BYU23L91-78
1/31Oklahoma St66L81-69
2/4Arizona St68L71-63
2/7@Kansas21L71-59
2/10Houston5L66-52
2/15@Cincinnati44L69-65
2/18@West Virginia60W61-56
2/21UCF54L73-71
2/24Iowa St6L75-59
2/28@Arizona St68L73-60
3/3Colorado70L92-78
3/7@Baylor48L101-75
3/10(N)Cincinnati44L73-66