NCAA Tournament March Madness

#243 American Univ

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

American’s resume points squarely to winning the Patriot League as the necessary path to the tournament because the season is split between a handful of solid league road wins and a string of damaging losses to power conference foes and to league rivals away from home. The program has shown it can beat peer opponents, with gritty victories at Bucknell and a home reversal of Colgate and a road escape at Boston University, but those moments are overshadowed by lopsided setbacks at Virginia, George Washington and VCU and by late-season slipups against conference opponents that erode any margin for an at-large case. With no signature neutral-site result against a high-major and with struggles in hostile environments still on the ledger, the safest and most realistic route to the tournament is capturing the league’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Wake Forest77L88-74
11/9Penn162W84-78
11/12@G Washington79L107-67
11/18@Rutgers133L80-71
11/28Maine347W74-61
11/29Siena209L59-55
11/30Longwood273W92-66
12/3Drexel219W75-73
12/6MD E Shore346W78-60
12/18@VCU45L105-83
12/22@Virginia19L95-51
12/31Loyola MD326W84-69
1/3@Boston Univ264W64-62
1/7@Colgate245L64-62
1/10Holy Cross330L84-73
1/12Navy140W65-51
1/18@Army337W78-67
1/21Colgate245W70-66
1/24@Holy Cross330W76-67
1/28@Loyola MD326L77-68
1/31Lafayette327L67-65
2/4Bucknell331L60-59
2/7@Navy140L82-73
2/11@Lehigh295L90-82
2/14Army337W75-63
2/18@Bucknell331W75-57
2/22@Lafayette327W75-61
2/25Lehigh295L78-73
2/28Boston Univ264L68-65
3/5@Boston Univ264L75-73