NCAA Tournament March Madness

#232 Abilene Chr

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Abilene Christian’s résumé reads like a team that can threaten in its league but has not yet done enough away from home to earn an at‑large ticket, with its best moments coming in a home win over New Mexico State and a road victory at Pepperdine and its worst moments including heavy road losses at Arizona and BYU and a neutral-site collapse against William & Mary. Those respectable but not signature wins are undermined by multiple defeats at conference road venues such as Utah Valley and Cal Baptist and by inconsistent play in sites away from home, which is exactly the sort of résumé trait that makes committees hesitate. The remaining slate sends the Wildcats back on the road to Utah Tech, Utah Valley and Cal Baptist and ends with a home date against UT Arlington, so those games are the last realistic opportunities to manufacture the kind of road or neutral victories that change perception. Unless Abilene Christian flips any of those road tests into a notable result the cleanest path into the NCAA field runs through winning the Western Athletic Conference crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6NE Omaha250W73-71
11/14@SF Austin89L76-66
11/18@Texas St249L63-49
11/24(N)UT San Antonio339W61-50
11/25(N)William & Mary132L92-58
12/2@Pepperdine268W71-63
12/6New Mexico St171W77-69
12/16@Arizona3L96-62
12/19@BYU21L85-67
12/22@TX Southern300W75-68
1/1Utah Tech176L79-64
1/3Utah Valley81W85-68
1/8@Tarleton St215W84-80
1/10@UT Arlington163L82-72
1/15Cal Baptist126L74-58
1/17@Southern Utah263L74-52
1/29Utah Tech176L76-70
1/31Southern Utah263L79-76
2/5@Utah Valley81L68-55
2/7@Cal Baptist126L65-63
2/12UT Arlington163W67-63
2/14Tarleton St215W73-59
2/16@Tarleton St215L65-62
2/21Southern Utah263W87-83
2/26@Utah Tech17628%
2/28@Utah Valley8110%
3/5@Cal Baptist12619%
3/7UT Arlington16346%