NCAA Tournament March Madness

#320 Cleveland St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Needing the automatic qualifier makes sense because Cleveland State’s résumé features a handful of resume-building moments but is littered with damaging losses that leave little margin for an at-large case. A neutral-site win over Radford and road victories at Wright State, Green Bay and Milwaukee along with home wins over Oakland and IUPUI show the team can win away from home and on neutral courts, yet those positives are swamped by heavy nonconference defeats at Northwestern and Missouri and a neutral loss to Kent plus recurring conference setbacks to the likes of Wright State, Northern Kentucky and UAB that undercut consistency. The defense has shown it can be sliced up on the road by higher-level opponents and the sequence of bad losses outweighs the solid showings, so the only realistic path to the NCAA field is by winning the Horizon Conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Loyola-Chicago280L91-88
11/10@Northwestern57L110-63
11/15(N)Kent148L102-95
11/16(N)Radford257W87-82
11/19Valparaiso158L90-75
11/22@Kent148L91-71
11/28@Missouri52L86-59
12/3@N Kentucky176L95-80
12/6Detroit217L71-59
12/17@UAB127L101-77
12/21WI Milwaukee268L81-71
12/29IUPUI317W99-86
1/4@PFW260L74-71
1/9@Oakland169L97-74
1/11@Detroit217L94-84
1/15WI Green Bay210L88-73
1/17Youngstown St214W80-78
1/21@Wright St140W85-79
1/30@WI Green Bay210W89-82
2/1@WI Milwaukee268W90-88
2/4Oakland169W91-78
2/7@IUPUI317L82-74
2/12Robert Morris144L85-68
2/15Wright St140L102-90
2/18@Youngstown St214L106-82
2/22PFW260L92-86
2/25N Kentucky176L81-70
2/28@Robert Morris144L83-64
3/2IUPUI317W101-93
3/4@Wright St140L90-61