NCAA Tournament March Madness

#199 Buffalo

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Buffalo’s profile contains a few resume-building moments, most notably the road victory at DePaul and solid wins away at Western Michigan and Canisius, but those highs are offset by a string of damaging results that includes painful home and road setbacks to Akron and Ohio as well as heavy defeats at Toledo and Miami Ohio and a neutral-site loss to Akron that undercuts the body of work. The nonconference slate produced comfortable neutral-site wins over VMI and Bucknell but no marquee home triumph to change the narrative and the team’s inconsistency away from campus — alternating steady road outings with damaging losses — leaves little to sell an at-large case. With few signature wins and several blemishes that stick on a résumé, Buffalo’s only practical route to the NCAA field is to secure the conference’s automatic ticket.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Southern Miss218W85-79
11/7WI Green Bay210W83-76
11/11@DePaul102W66-53
11/18Vermont240W94-90
11/24(N)VMI360W78-70
11/26(N)Bucknell331W73-71
11/29@Canisius342W71-53
12/6St Bonaventure139L77-69
12/9@UMBC185W83-79
12/14@East Carolina254L73-70
12/20@W Michigan273W88-71
12/31@N Illinois333W81-67
1/3Ball St294W85-72
1/10@Ohio228L91-80
1/13Kent148L87-81
1/17@Miami OH93L105-102
1/20Akron64L82-63
1/23Massachusetts196L68-67
1/27@Bowling Green147W89-78
1/31Ohio228L95-83
2/3Miami OH93L73-71
2/7@South Alabama205L81-69
2/11@Ball St294W63-53
2/17N Illinois333L72-70
2/21@Massachusetts196W86-82
2/24@Akron64L99-85
2/28C Michigan269L75-70
3/3E Michigan239W72-67
3/6@Toledo131L99-78
3/12(N)Akron64L73-70