NCAA Tournament March Madness

#156 Boston College

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Boston College's résumé reads like a team with a sturdy defense and a handful of respectable home moments but not enough signature wins to earn an at-large invite, because home victories over Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame and a gritty road win at Temple are outweighed by neutral-site setbacks to Davidson, Tulane and Massachusetts and by heavy losses away at Duke, Clemson and SMU. The defense kept them competitive in several games yet inconsistent scoring produced tight defeats at Florida Atlantic and Central Connecticut and the program was unable to produce a resume-defining road win against a top conference opponent. With a thin collection of resume-changing victories and a poor record away from home the only reliable route to the NCAA field for this group is to secure the conference's automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@FL Atlantic129L83-78
11/6Citadel347W76-47
11/11Central Conn306L60-59
11/15@Temple165W76-71
11/18Hampton272W63-52
11/21(N)Davidson114L59-49
11/23(N)Tulane211L93-90
11/26Harvard152W73-60
12/3LSU60L78-69
12/6New Haven328W67-63
12/10(N)Massachusetts196L76-74
12/22F Dickinson336W72-61
12/28Le Moyne299W72-64
1/3@Georgia Tech162L65-53
1/6NC State34L79-71
1/10@Louisville19L75-62
1/13@Clemson36L74-50
1/17Syracuse83W81-73
1/21Pittsburgh94W65-62
1/24@Notre Dame89L68-64
1/31Virginia13L73-66
2/3@Duke1L67-49
2/7Miami FL31L74-68
2/11Stanford58L70-64
2/14California73L86-75
2/17@Florida St56L80-72
2/21@SMU42L94-70
2/25Wake Forest74W68-67
2/28@Miami FL31L76-54
3/3@Virginia Tech55L72-63
3/7Notre Dame89W77-69