NCAA Tournament March Madness

#57 Belmont

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Projected seed: 12 (automatic qualifier)

Belmont’s profile reads like a team that has checked the boxes committees prize while still carrying a few blemishes that keep it from moving higher. Its best moments are the neutral-site nonconference wins over St. Francis (PA) and Toledo and true road victories at Northern Iowa, Murray State and UC Irvine, which demonstrate the group can win away from its own building. Those quality results are balanced against a damaging nonconference loss at Richmond plus rough outings at Bradley and defeats to Southern Illinois and Indiana State that undercut the résumé. With the league schedule closing at home against Indiana State and Evansville and one final road trip to Illinois State, Belmont has clear opportunities to lock up its standing by finishing clean.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Air Force347W79-63
11/8Tennessee St260W87-79
11/15@Oral Roberts335W83-60
11/19Lipscomb173W75-68
11/24(N)St Francis PA356W94-57
11/26(N)Toledo159W87-72
11/30@Col Charleston172W96-73
12/3Richmond137L84-76
12/7@MTSU179W83-62
12/13IL Chicago113W87-84
12/16@Evansville297W83-78
12/19@UC Irvine114W84-58
12/29@Indiana St210L81-80
1/1Bradley131W88-78
1/4S Illinois121L68-67
1/7@Northern Iowa87W78-65
1/10@Drake209W78-76
1/13Valparaiso158W78-74
1/17@S Illinois121W73-68
1/24Illinois St100W80-69
1/28@Valparaiso158W78-77
1/31Murray St111W103-86
2/3Drake209W103-90
2/6@IL Chicago113W68-62
2/9@Bradley131L95-84
2/12Northern Iowa87W91-86
2/15@Murray St111W87-70
2/21Indiana St21091%
2/25Evansville29797%
3/1@Illinois St10055%