NCAA Tournament March Madness
#76 Yale
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Projected seed: 10 (automatic qualifier)
Yale’s resume is anchored by meaningful road victories at Akron and Vermont and by neutral-site wins over Wisconsin Green Bay and College of Charleston, which show an offense that can carry the club away from home while a loss to Rhode Island underscores defensive inconsistency. The upcoming road trip to Alabama is the season’s clearest chance for a marquee victory and the remaining Ivy League stretch, including trips to Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and Columbia along with a home meeting with Princeton, provides a straightforward path to polish the profile. Because of the combination of strong away and neutral results, a damaging loss that needs erasing, and a league slate that still offers controlled opportunities, the committee’s placement of Yale reflects a team with solid credentials yet vulnerable to late setbacks.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/7 | @Navy | 192 | W97-68 |
| 11/11 | @Quinnipiac | 178 | W97-60 |
| 11/15 | Stony Brook | 221 | W86-79 |
| 11/18 | Rhode Island | 99 | L86-77 |
| 11/21 | (N)WI Green Bay | 271 | W73-67 |
| 11/23 | (N)Col Charleston | 186 | W74-63 |
| 11/24 | (N)Akron | 54 | W97-94 |
| 11/30 | @Vermont | 211 | W77-74 |
| 12/7 | IL Chicago | 198 | 88% |
| 12/10 | (N)SUNY Albany | 318 | 93% |
| 12/29 | @Alabama | 14 | 11% |
| 1/5 | @Brown | 244 | 80% |
| 1/10 | @Princeton | 253 | 81% |
| 1/17 | Cornell | 162 | 84% |
| 1/19 | Columbia | 138 | 78% |
| 1/24 | @Penn | 222 | 78% |
| 1/30 | Dartmouth | 276 | 94% |
| 1/31 | Harvard | 200 | 88% |
| 2/6 | Brown | 244 | 92% |
| 2/9 | @Howard | 314 | 88% |
| 2/13 | @Dartmouth | 276 | 83% |
| 2/14 | @Harvard | 200 | 74% |
| 2/21 | Penn | 222 | 91% |
| 2/27 | @Cornell | 162 | 67% |
| 2/28 | @Columbia | 138 | 58% |
| 3/7 | Princeton | 253 | 93% |