NCAA Tournament March Madness

#270 Delaware

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Delaware’s profile reads like a team with flashes rather than a resume that sells itself to a committee: it has eye-catching road wins at George Washington, Missouri State and New Mexico State and a gritty home victory over Middle Tennessee that show it can close games away from home, but those moments are swamped by damaging defeats such as the blowout at BYU, the early road loss at Bucknell and the baffling trip to Delaware State that all undermine confidence in the body of work. The nonconference slate contains respectable mid‑major opponents but no marquee scalp to erase those blemishes, and conference road results have been uneven enough to raise doubts about consistency. With a regular-season date against Louisiana Tech still to come and the league tournament looming, the cleanest path to the NCAA field runs through securing the conference automatic because the resume as it stands carries too many bad losses and too few high-end wins to be comfortably chosen otherwise.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Bucknell331L78-70
11/11@BYU24L85-68
11/18St Peter's256W81-70
11/23(N)S Illinois116L79-59
11/25(N)UNC Greensboro301W73-60
12/1Iona260L89-66
12/6@Delaware St362L75-72
12/10@G Washington78W70-58
12/13CS Northridge167L88-66
12/16Rider357W65-57
12/29Missouri St202L61-43
1/2Jacksonville St207L67-64
1/4Kennesaw176W67-52
1/8@Sam Houston St107L72-60
1/10@Louisiana Tech231L70-68
1/15UTEP276L70-69
1/17New Mexico St183L97-68
1/24@Liberty118L67-51
1/28@New Mexico St183W73-64
1/31@UTEP276L70-55
2/4Liberty118L75-69
2/7MTSU175W89-88
2/12@Florida Intl208W68-66
2/14@Missouri St202W76-67
2/18WKU148L88-87
2/21@MTSU175L78-66
2/26@Jacksonville St207L80-70
2/28@Kennesaw176L90-82
3/5Sam Houston St107W83-80
3/7Louisiana Tech23153%