NCAA Tournament March Madness

#222 Detroit

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Detroit looks like a team that will need the automatic qualifier because its resume pairs a handful of respectable conference road wins with a string of damaging nonconference and midseason losses. Its best moments came away from home, with victories at Cleveland State, Wright State, Oakland and Wisconsin Milwaukee that show it can win in hostile gyms, and it closed the league slate with some solid home results that reinforced its conference competence. Those positives are undercut by ugly road blowouts at Notre Dame and Michigan State and by defeats at DePaul and Toledo plus surprising setbacks to lesser opponents that leave the résumé uneven. With few marquee wins over high‑major programs and a clear pattern of inconsistency, the clearest path to the tournament runs through the Horizon Conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@IL Chicago105L91-71
11/7@Notre Dame92L102-70
11/15@Toledo135L90-83
11/18E Michigan241L72-62
11/21@Michigan St9L84-56
11/23@DePaul102L95-75
11/29@Niagara338W70-66
12/3IUPUI317W92-78
12/6@Cleveland St322W71-59
12/14@PFW261L81-77
12/29@Youngstown St214W73-68
1/2Robert Morris139L85-77
1/9Wright St144L84-82
1/11Cleveland St322W94-84
1/15@N Kentucky172L96-71
1/17@IUPUI317W80-77
1/21PFW261L83-76
1/24Oakland170L95-87
1/30N Kentucky172W90-77
2/4@WI Milwaukee268W76-63
2/7@WI Green Bay209L76-63
2/12@Wright St144W77-74
2/15Youngstown St214W76-70
2/20WI Milwaukee268W91-86
2/22WI Green Bay209W74-70
2/25@Robert Morris139L73-62
2/28@Oakland170W95-89
3/4WI Milwaukee268W84-63
3/9(N)Robert Morris13933%