UCLA's recent success in Pac-12 play has created optimism about the team's NCAA tournament chances, but the Bruins still have a long way to go.
once, providing two of its four Quadrant 1 victories that are considered especially valuable for NCAA tournament selection purposes because they involve beating a team with a NET ranking of 1-30 at home, 1-50 on a neutral court or 1-75 on the road. regular-season title wouldn’t matter outside of enhancing the Bruins’ overall record because conference records are omitted from team sheets used by the selection committee.
UCLA could be on the verge of missing the NCAA tournament in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2003-04, but there is recent precedent for the Bruins pulling a Selection Sunday surprise. The Bruins were selected for the NCAA tournament in 2015, earning a No. 11 seeding in the South Regional, after completing a regular season in which they went 20-13 and were left out of some bracket projections. UCLA made it in that year as the fifth-to-last at-large team in the field.
The Bruins had closed that season with a strong push, winning nine of their final 13 games before the NCAA tournament, including one victory in the Pac-12 tournament. Scott Barnes, then the selection committee chairman, said at the time that the committee had tracked UCLA closely over its final month of play, intimating that its surge was a factor in its inclusion.
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