NCAA Tournament March Madness

#77 Yale

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Projected seed: 12 (automatic qualifier)

Yale’s résumé reads like an Ivy champion with one clear identity: an offense that can blow games open and a defense that leaves the profile vulnerable against top opposition. The most persuasive moments came on neutral floors with wins over Charleston and Akron and in true road environments with victories at Navy, Quinnipiac and Vermont, and the team backed that up with key Ivy road results at Brown, Dartmouth and Harvard. Those positives are offset by profile-damaging showings, most notably the heavy loss at Alabama, the non-conference setback to Rhode Island and an earlier defeat at Princeton that exposed inconsistency. With road trips to Cornell and Columbia and a home meeting with Princeton still ahead, Yale can replace blemishes with signature finishes, which is why its résumé looks like a conference champion’s entry that is secure but not elite.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Navy147W97-68
11/11@Quinnipiac208W97-60
11/15Stony Brook220W86-79
11/18Rhode Island123L86-77
11/21(N)WI Green Bay213W73-67
11/23(N)Col Charleston164W74-63
11/24(N)Akron68W97-94
11/30@Vermont235W77-74
12/7IL Chicago102W80-66
12/10(N)SUNY Albany315W93-82
12/29@Alabama20L102-78
1/5@Brown273W70-53
1/10@Princeton259L76-60
1/17Cornell170W102-68
1/19Columbia199W91-74
1/24@Penn173W77-60
1/30Dartmouth252W83-68
1/31Harvard149L67-65
2/6Brown273W81-69
2/9@Howard218W87-81
2/13@Dartmouth252W83-70
2/14@Harvard149W76-75
2/21Penn173W74-70
2/27@Cornell17066%
2/28@Columbia19970%
3/7Princeton25993%