NCAA Tournament March Madness

#333 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-Chicago298L91-88
11/10@Northwestern54L110-63
11/15(N)Kent132L102-95
11/16(N)Radford255W87-82
11/19Valparaiso206L90-75
11/22@Kent132L91-71
11/28@Missouri63L86-59
12/3@N Kentucky210L95-80
12/6Detroit294L71-59
12/17@UAB106L101-77
12/21WI Milwaukee221L81-71
12/29IUPUI34064%
1/4@PFW20415%
1/9@Oakland1388%
1/11@Detroit29428%
1/15WI Green Bay28145%
1/17Youngstown St16124%
1/21@Wright St1489%
1/30@WI Green Bay28125%
2/1@WI Milwaukee22118%
2/4Oakland13819%
2/7@IUPUI34042%
2/12Robert Morris17727%
2/15Wright St14822%
2/18@Youngstown St16110%
2/22PFW20432%
2/25N Kentucky21033%
2/28@Robert Morris17712%