NCAA Tournament March Madness

#80 Yale

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Projected seed: 11 (automatic qualifier)

Yale’s résumé rests on an offense that has delivered eye-catching wins away from New Haven and on neutral courts, with road victories at Navy and Quinnipiac and a neutral-site triumph over Akron that show the team can win in hostile and tournament-like settings. Those highs are offset by a damaging trip to Alabama and a non-conference loss to Rhode Island that reveal defensive inconsistencies and create blemishes the committee will scrutinize. The remainder of the Ivy slate, including road tests at Princeton, Penn and Harvard, gives Yale clear chances to strengthen the case before the league tournament. With a mix of signature road and neutral wins counterbalanced by a blowout loss and a largely middling non-conference slate outside the Akron win, Yale occupies a precarious position where late-season road results and conference-tournament performance will ultimately determine how the résumé is viewed.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Navy188W97-68
11/11@Quinnipiac155W97-60
11/15Stony Brook280W86-79
11/18Rhode Island135L86-77
11/21(N)WI Green Bay243W73-67
11/23(N)Col Charleston163W74-63
11/24(N)Akron58W97-94
11/30@Vermont213W77-74
12/7IL Chicago186W80-66
12/10(N)SUNY Albany321W93-82
12/29@Alabama14L102-78
1/5@Brown251W70-53
1/10@Princeton25281%
1/17Cornell17385%
1/19Columbia13377%
1/24@Penn21474%
1/30Dartmouth23691%
1/31Harvard20388%
2/6Brown25192%
2/9@Howard27184%
2/13@Dartmouth23678%
2/14@Harvard20373%
2/21Penn21488%
2/27@Cornell17368%
2/28@Columbia13358%
3/7Princeton25292%