NCAA Tournament March Madness

#261 Boston Univ

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Boston University's profile makes it clear that its NCAA future depends on winning the Patriot League tournament. The résumé includes flashes that keep that path alive — a road victory at Northeastern, a neutral-site win over Harvard, a dominant home statement against Colgate and gritty road wins at Army and Navy that show the team can close out hostile environments — but those highlights are offset by damaging lapses, most notably a heavy loss at Northwestern and difficult road setbacks at Penn State and against mid‑major opponents such as New Hampshire, Maine and Merrimack that expose clear defensive inconsistency. Put simply, the Terriers have enough eye‑catching individual results to avoid being written off entirely yet too many bad losses away from home and in nonconference play to justify an at‑large candidacy, so their cleanest path to the NCAA field is to capture the Patriot League automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Northeastern286W76-75
11/7@Northwestern57L76-52
11/12Brown290W90-77
11/15Merrimack179L91-79
11/18@Columbia189L54-49
11/22(N)Harvard152W75-74
11/25@Penn St138L96-87
11/29@N Kentucky176L74-65
12/6@New Hampshire349L88-82
12/10Maine348L69-59
12/13@Dartmouth274L77-64
12/21MA Lowell321W88-76
12/31@Navy142L82-77
1/3American Univ238L64-62
1/7@Lafayette325W83-67
1/10Army337W100-91
1/14Lehigh284L93-91
1/17@Loyola MD322L74-57
1/21Lafayette325W77-73
1/24@Colgate249L80-79
1/28Navy142L58-50
1/31@Bucknell331L103-97
2/2@Holy Cross329W72-64
2/7Loyola MD322W78-69
2/11@Army337W85-68
2/14Bucknell331W82-69
2/16Colgate249W85-58
2/22@Lehigh284L70-67
2/25Holy Cross329W78-63
2/28@American Univ238W68-65
3/5American Univ238W75-73
3/8@Navy142W73-72
3/11@Lehigh284L74-60