NCAA Tournament March Madness

#144 Boston College

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Boston College’s résumé reads like a team with a sturdy defense and an uneven offense that has flashed on the road but been undone by too many damaging slipups. The road victory at Temple and the solid home showing against Harvard are the cleanest signatures on the ledger, while comfortable wins over Citadel, Hampton, New Haven, Dickinson and Le Moyne mostly fail to elevate the profile. The most harmful results are the setback at Florida Atlantic, the home loss to Central Connecticut and neutral-site defeats to Davidson and Tulane, which blunt the impact of better outings. With a conference slate that still includes road tests at Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Clemson, Louisville and Duke and home chances against conference names such as NC State, Virginia, Syracuse and Miami, the path forward is clear: pick up a few road or neutral wins over quality opponents and avoid another bad loss to shift perception.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@FL Atlantic118L83-78
11/6Citadel362W76-47
11/11Central Conn259L60-59
11/15@Temple163W76-71
11/18Hampton221W63-52
11/21(N)Davidson134L59-49
11/23(N)Tulane187L93-90
11/26Harvard208W73-60
12/3LSU39L78-69
12/6New Haven342W67-63
12/10@Massachusetts17747%
12/22F Dickinson36096%
12/28Le Moyne30487%
1/3@Georgia Tech13636%
1/6NC State2819%
1/10@Louisville143%
1/13@Clemson267%
1/17Syracuse6734%
1/21Pittsburgh10850%
1/24@Notre Dame6015%
1/31Virginia2317%
2/3@Duke41%
2/7Miami FL3421%
2/11Stanford9043%
2/14California7135%
2/17@Florida St9625%
2/21@SMU4010%
2/24Wake Forest4527%
2/28@Miami FL349%
3/3@Virginia Tech6216%
3/7Notre Dame6032%