NCAA Tournament March Madness

#350 Chicago St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Chicago State’s body of work is defined by a solitary resume highlight — a road win at Loyola-Chicago — that is overwhelmed by a series of lopsided defeats away at programs such as DePaul, St. Louis, Butler, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois State, results a selection committee will weigh heavily. Those road losses have drained credibility from the nonconference slate and revealed a team that struggles to win outside its own building. The rest of the schedule brings routine conference opponents like Wagner, Stonehill and LIU Brooklyn and regional midmajors such as Le Moyne and New Haven, which should allow the team to pile up victories but offers few chances for a signature win. In practical terms, the clearest path to the NCAA field runs through a deep run in the conference tournament to secure the automatic berth because the season-long damage from heavy road defeats makes an at-large case extremely difficult.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@DePaul120L92-62
11/6@St Louis37L108-86
11/11@Butler55L98-66
11/15IL Chicago195L67-63
11/18@Minnesota106L66-54
11/20@Iowa20L93-54
11/25@PFW227L90-77
11/28@Youngstown St165L87-64
12/6@Illinois St94L95-53
12/14@Loyola-Chicago313W84-75
12/16@Bowling Green113L76-55
12/20@Indiana260%
1/2Wagner30344%
1/4LIU Brooklyn20627%
1/8@F Dickinson35846%
1/10@Stonehill34035%
1/17Le Moyne31247%
1/19New Haven34157%
1/23@St Francis PA36250%
1/25@Mercyhurst32631%
1/29St Francis PA36271%
1/31Mercyhurst32652%
2/5@Central Conn26918%
2/7@New Haven34135%
2/12Stonehill34057%
2/14@Le Moyne31226%
2/19F Dickinson35868%
2/21Central Conn26936%
2/26@LIU Brooklyn20612%
2/28@Wagner30323%