NCAA Tournament March Madness

#340 Alcorn St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Alcorn State’s season has been defined by a handful of gritty, low‑profile wins and a long string of bad losses on the road against power programs, so the idea that their path to the NCAA Tournament runs through the conference title makes complete sense. Their resume’s brightest spot is a neutral‑site victory over Indiana State plus hard‑fought wins at Alabama A&M and Mississippi Valley State and narrow home victories over Prairie View and Bethune‑Cookman, but those results come against lesser opponents and do little to offset the string of lopsided defeats at Florida State, Iowa State, Baylor, LSU, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Maryland that undercut any claim to a quality nonconference résumé. With the remaining regular‑season games largely against conference foes that will not meaningfully enhance an at‑large profile, the only realistic route to the bracket is to win the Southwestern AC tournament and convert the automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Florida St78L108-76
11/6@South Alabama195L76-70
11/8@Minnesota79L95-50
11/11@Maryland126L84-64
11/13@Howard229L72-64
11/18@LSU56L107-81
11/23@Oklahoma54L72-53
11/28(N)Indiana St212W81-74
11/29@Louisiana Tech238L83-58
12/3@Iowa St7L132-68
12/19@Baylor44L113-56
12/29@Mississippi82L79-43
1/3@Jackson St336L89-86
1/10@Alabama A&M309W64-62
1/12@Alabama St305L81-66
1/17TX Southern308L72-71
1/19Prairie View325W76-75
1/24@Florida A&M334L66-58
1/26@Bethune-Cookman227L82-73
1/31Southern Univ269W78-73
2/2Grambling278L74-50
2/7@Ark Pine Bluff301L84-77
2/9@MS Valley St365W74-66
2/14Bethune-Cookman227W57-55
2/16Florida A&M33457%
2/21Jackson St33658%
2/26@TX Southern30826%
2/28@Prairie View32531%
3/3MS Valley St36588%
3/5Ark Pine Bluff30145%