NCAA Tournament March Madness

#322 Ball St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Ball State's resume simply lacks the sort of signature road or neutral wins that get a committee's attention and the season is littered with damaging defeats that are hard to overcome, most notably the rout at Wisconsin and ugly losses away at Toledo and Akron along with nonconference setbacks at Lafayette and Indiana State. The team's few bright spots are a home win over Louisiana, a gritty road victory at Central Michigan, a neutral-site win over Le Moyne and conference wins over Ohio and Northern Illinois, but none of those results erase the pattern of missed opportunities away from home and recurring bad losses. With meaningful wins against respected opponents conspicuously absent, the most reliable route to the field runs through winning the Mid‑American tournament, and the remaining regular-season dates at Northern Illinois, at Western Michigan, at Akron and at home against Central Michigan and Massachusetts are the last chances to reshape a résumé that otherwise reads like a team needing the automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Louisiana306W75-64
11/11@Wisconsin29L86-55
11/15Ark Little Rock307L68-62
11/22@Indiana St212L70-52
11/28(N)Monmouth NJ206L80-73
11/29@Lafayette327L55-37
11/30(N)Le Moyne289W96-85
12/3@Evansville297L64-52
12/9S Dakota St219L68-64
12/14@Campbell195L69-64
12/20Miami OH84L86-77
1/3@Buffalo188L85-72
1/6E Michigan229L74-52
1/10@Massachusetts183L79-71
1/13@Akron66L87-77
1/16Ohio220W76-71
1/20@C Michigan272W68-67
1/24N Illinois317W58-53
1/31@Toledo160L73-55
2/3@Bowling Green139L77-52
2/7@ULM354W73-68
2/11Buffalo188L63-53
2/14Kent146L75-68
2/17@Ohio22018%
2/20Akron668%
2/21Akron668%
2/24Massachusetts18329%
2/28@N Illinois31738%
3/3@W Michigan27927%
3/6C Michigan27247%