NCAA Tournament March Madness

#304 Cleveland St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cleveland State’s resume leaves little margin for error: its best moments are a run of road conference victories at Wright St, Green Bay and Milwaukee plus a neutral-site nonconference win over Radford that prove it can win away from home, but its profile is handicapped by lopsided road defeats at Northwestern and Missouri and damaging home losses to Valparaiso, Detroit and Robert Morris that expose inconsistency and blunt the value of those road wins, and splitting with IUPUI only reinforces the unevenness; with few quality nonconference scalps and a slate of remaining Horizon opportunities, including trips to Youngstown St and Robert Morris and a home date with Wright St, the team needs to convert those chances because its body of work as it stands is not secure enough to rely on anything other than the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Loyola-Chicago314L91-88
11/10@Northwestern70L110-63
11/15(N)Kent145L102-95
11/16(N)Radford236W87-82
11/19Valparaiso154L90-75
11/22@Kent145L91-71
11/28@Missouri52L86-59
12/3@N Kentucky193L95-80
12/6Detroit255L71-59
12/17@UAB119L101-77
12/21WI Milwaukee268L81-71
12/29IUPUI312W99-86
1/4@PFW259L74-71
1/9@Oakland138L97-74
1/11@Detroit255L94-84
1/15WI Green Bay218L88-73
1/17Youngstown St201W80-78
1/21@Wright St148W85-79
1/30@WI Green Bay218W89-82
2/1@WI Milwaukee268W90-88
2/4Oakland138W91-78
2/7@IUPUI312L82-74
2/12Robert Morris187L85-68
2/15Wright St14828%
2/18@Youngstown St20118%
2/22PFW25949%
2/25N Kentucky19336%
2/28@Robert Morris18717%