NCAA Tournament March Madness

#76 Yale

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Projected seed: 12 (automatic qualifier)

Yale’s résumé is built on an explosive offense and a string of true road and neutral wins that demonstrate the team can win away from New Haven. The neutral-site victory over Akron and road triumphs at Navy, Quinnipiac, Vermont and Penn are impressive signature moments that show the Bulldogs can beat respectable opponents in difficult environments. Those highs are counterbalanced by a heavy loss at Alabama, a nonconference setback to Rhode Island and a narrow home defeat to Harvard, each of which exposed defensive inconsistencies and left blemishes a committee will notice. The remaining Ivy slate, with trips to Harvard and Princeton, a home date with Penn and road games at Cornell and Columbia, gives Yale concrete chances to erase those blemishes and strengthen the resume in ways selection committees value. The combination of standout wins, damaging losses and clear opportunities to improve explains why the team currently sits where it does in the bracket.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Navy160W97-68
11/11@Quinnipiac207W97-60
11/15Stony Brook214W86-79
11/18Rhode Island114L86-77
11/21(N)WI Green Bay227W73-67
11/23(N)Col Charleston170W74-63
11/24(N)Akron64W97-94
11/30@Vermont226W77-74
12/7IL Chicago134W80-66
12/10(N)SUNY Albany322W93-82
12/29@Alabama19L102-78
1/5@Brown281W70-53
1/10@Princeton225L76-60
1/17Cornell157W102-68
1/19Columbia199W91-74
1/24@Penn180W77-60
1/30Dartmouth241W83-68
1/31Harvard158L67-65
2/6Brown281W81-69
2/9@Howard244W87-81
2/13@Dartmouth24179%
2/14@Harvard15864%
2/21Penn18085%
2/27@Cornell15764%
2/28@Columbia19971%
3/7Princeton22590%