NCAA Tournament March Madness

#335 Army

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Army’s résumé is built more of close wins over lesser foes and ugly losses to upper‑tier teams than it is of eye‑catching scalps, so the only clean path to the NCAA field runs through the Patriot League automatic berth. A lopsided defeat at Duke and losses at St Thomas MN, Harvard, Cornell and Marist left the nonconference resume thin on quality, while the program’s best moments — road victories at UMBC and at Bucknell and a tight home win over Manhattan — came against opponents that won’t sway a committee. Conference play has been up and down with a damaging home loss to Colgate and road setbacks at Boston University and Holy Cross offsetting the solid trip to Lehigh, so the upcoming road date at Colgate and a string of conference home opportunities represent the only reliable chances to rewrite the narrative and avoid needing the league’s automatic qualifier.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@St Thomas MN130L83-76
11/11Duke3L114-59
11/15Harvard171L75-52
11/18@Cornell187L86-73
11/21@Marist149L76-65
11/25(N)East Texas A&M288L84-67
11/26@F Dickinson344W81-73
11/29Manhattan336W81-78
12/2G Washington74L84-70
12/12@UMBC275W63-60
12/23Binghamton362W95-85
12/31@Lehigh307W85-78
1/3Colgate192L76-69
1/7Loyola MD329L84-76
1/10@Boston Univ291L100-91
1/14@Holy Cross326L82-75
1/18American Univ210L78-67
1/21@Bucknell324W87-84
1/24@Navy19313%
1/28Lehigh30752%
1/31Holy Cross32659%
2/4@Colgate19213%
2/7Lafayette31656%
2/11Boston Univ29148%
2/14@American Univ21015%
2/18@Loyola MD32937%
2/21Navy19329%
2/25Bucknell32458%
2/28@Lafayette31634%