NCAA Tournament March Madness

#280 Boston Univ

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Boston University's résumé has a few bright spots but too many damaging results for a comfortable at-large case, which makes winning the Patriot League the clearest path to the field. The best moments — a gritty road victory at Northeastern and a narrow neutral-site win over Harvard plus conference wins over Bucknell and Army — show the team can win outside its building and close tight games. Those positives are offset by a heavy loss at Northwestern, rough outings at Penn State and road setbacks to mid-majors like Merrimack and New Hampshire and a surprising home defeat to Maine that undercut any résumé momentum. Persistent defensive lapses and a string of high-scoring losses leave the profile short on the kind of sustained road and neutral victories the selection process rewards. A home date with Colgate and trips to Lehigh and American are late opportunities to change the narrative but as it stands the most reliable route to the tournament is winning the league.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Northeastern275W76-75
11/7@Northwestern70L76-52
11/12Brown281W90-77
11/15Merrimack169L91-79
11/18@Columbia204L54-49
11/22(N)Harvard167W75-74
11/25@Penn St125L96-87
11/29@N Kentucky192L74-65
12/6@New Hampshire335L88-82
12/10Maine349L69-59
12/13@Dartmouth249L77-64
12/21MA Lowell319W88-76
12/31@Navy157L82-77
1/3American Univ250L64-62
1/7@Lafayette327W83-67
1/10Army338W100-91
1/14Lehigh300L93-91
1/17@Loyola MD315L74-57
1/21Lafayette327W77-73
1/24@Colgate213L80-79
1/28Navy157L58-50
1/31@Bucknell331L103-97
2/2@Holy Cross328W72-64
2/7Loyola MD315W78-69
2/11@Army338W85-68
2/14Bucknell331W82-69
2/16Colgate21345%
2/21@Lehigh30044%
2/25Holy Cross32874%
2/28@American Univ25032%