NCAA Tournament March Madness

#307 Alabama A&M

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Alabama A&M’s profile makes sense as a team that needs the conference’s automatic bid because it simply lacks resume-changing wins away from home or at neutral sites while carrying several damaging road blowouts. The best moments — a road victory at Prairie View, solid wins over Jackson State and Grambling, and a close neutral-site triumph over Alabama State — show the roster can beat its regular rivals when it executes, but those are outweighed by humiliating losses at Indiana and Clemson, a rough road night at Lipscomb, and a neutral loss to Mississippi that expose limits versus quality opponents away from home. Mixed results in neutral-site showdowns with Texas Southern and Prairie View underscore inconsistency, so the clearest path to the field is to run the table in the conference tournament and accumulate quality road or neutral wins before Selection to change the committee’s view.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5@Indiana46L98-51
11/13Charleston So241W68-64
11/16Lindenwood267W74-65
11/28@Clemson36L92-56
11/30@Coastal Car247L67-60
12/3Tennessee St187W80-53
12/7@Lipscomb200L92-58
12/15North Alabama343W68-60
12/17(N)Mississippi65L80-66
12/21Chattanooga301L73-66
1/3@Ark Pine Bluff314L95-83
1/5@MS Valley St365W71-51
1/10Alcorn St346L64-62
1/12Jackson St341W100-91
1/19(N)Alabama St318W73-69
1/24@TX Southern316L89-74
1/27@Prairie View288W80-60
1/31Florida A&M312W72-65
2/2Bethune-Cookman243L80-62
2/7@Southern Univ279L81-68
2/9@Grambling298W66-58
2/14MS Valley St365W72-65
2/16Ark Pine Bluff314W82-70
2/19@Florida A&M312W63-61
2/21@Bethune-Cookman243L85-76
2/28Alabama St318L89-88
3/3Grambling298W77-63
3/5Southern Univ279L88-85
3/12(N)TX Southern316W85-74
3/13(N)Prairie View288L74-55