NCAA Tournament March Madness

#307 Ark Pine Bluff

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Needing to secure the conference’s automatic spot is the only realistic path for Ark Pine Bluff because the nonconference ledger is dominated by heavy road defeats at power opponents like Washington, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma and SMU while the lone resume-boosting road result came at Illinois Chicago, and those outcomes leave few quality wins to justify an at-large case. Within the league the program has shown it can beat peers such as Alabama A&M and Alabama State and has road successes at TX Southern and Southern, but intermittent conference losses including the setback at Prairie View and close defeats to Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman blunt the resume and underline an inconsistent ability to win away from home. With no signature neutral-site victories and a string of lopsided losses that selection committees view as damaging, the remaining winnable matchups at Grambling, Jackson State and Alcorn State and the conference tournament are the clear opportunities to change the picture.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Washington46L94-50
11/6@Portland216L83-74
11/8@Loy Marymount167L94-72
11/11@Oklahoma66L95-69
11/15@Vanderbilt14L104-75
11/18@SMU36L106-60
11/20@Marshall159L98-70
11/23@Miami OH90L111-84
12/3@IL Chicago131W63-62
12/6@DePaul104L76-72
12/10@Tulsa55L117-84
1/3Alabama A&M303W95-83
1/5Alabama St312W90-79
1/10@TX Southern313W74-66
1/12@Prairie View329L73-61
1/17Florida A&M326L71-67
1/19Bethune-Cookman222L87-82
1/24@Southern Univ273W75-74
1/26@Grambling26027%
1/28@Grambling26027%
1/31@MS Valley St365W78-70
2/4@Grambling26027%
2/7Alcorn St35074%
2/9Jackson St34171%
2/14@Alabama St31240%
2/16@Alabama A&M30337%
2/21Prairie View32965%
2/28MS Valley St36593%
3/3@Jackson St34150%
3/5@Alcorn St35054%