NCAA Tournament March Madness

#325 Cleveland St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cleveland State’s résumé is built around a lone neutral win over Radford and a couple of competitive showings such as a close visit to Loyola Chicago and a tight neutral game with Kent that suggest the team can hang with respectable opponents. Those flashes are overwhelmed by heavy road defeats at Northwestern, Missouri and UAB and by home setbacks to Valparaiso and Detroit that highlight defensive breakdowns and inconsistency. The remainder of the schedule still hands them clear chances to repair the profile with a home date against IUPUI and road opportunities at Purdue Fort Wayne and Oakland along with league tests against Green Bay, Wright State, Northern Kentucky and Robert Morris. Until Cleveland State turns some of those upcoming chances into road or neutral wins the résumé reads like a team with upside but too many damaging losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Loyola-Chicago297L91-88
11/10@Northwestern55L110-63
11/15(N)Kent135L102-95
11/16(N)Radford252W87-82
11/19Valparaiso209L90-75
11/22@Kent135L91-71
11/28@Missouri63L86-59
12/3@N Kentucky206L95-80
12/6Detroit277L71-59
12/17@UAB107L101-77
12/21WI Milwaukee205L81-71
12/29IUPUI345W99-86
1/4@PFW22219%
1/9@Oakland1459%
1/11@Detroit27726%
1/15WI Green Bay28148%
1/17Youngstown St17228%
1/21@Wright St1409%
1/30@WI Green Bay28127%
2/1@WI Milwaukee20516%
2/4Oakland14523%
2/7@IUPUI34546%
2/12Robert Morris18531%
2/15Wright St14021%
2/18@Youngstown St17213%
2/22PFW22238%
2/25N Kentucky20634%
2/28@Robert Morris18514%