NCAA Tournament March Madness

#126 Drake

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Drake’s profile reads like a team with a handful of signature highs and damaging lows that explain its current standing, because it has shown the ability to win away and on neutral courts with the neutral-site victory over Georgia Tech and the road victory at College Charleston standing out while its blowout of Western Illinois underlined how it can dominate weaker opposition, yet those positives are offset by puzzling home setbacks to Robert Morris and SIUE and a nonconference loss to UAB that erode committee confidence. The competitive neutral loss to LSU and tight losses against quality foes are forgivable and show the roster can hang with stronger teams, but the damage from bad results at home is real and the resume still needs quality road or neutral wins to balance those blemishes. The remaining stretch gives Drake control of the narrative with home opportunities against Belmont and conference rivals and a slate of true road tests at places like Murray State and Northern Iowa that will either repair the bad losses or leave them as the reason they sit where they do.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)Northern Arizona264W77-71
11/6Robert Morris178L81-79
11/14SIUE224L61-59
11/17@Col Charleston182W71-62
11/28(N)LSU39L71-62
11/29(N)Georgia Tech136W84-74
12/2W Illinois353W108-57
12/5UAB105L74-69
12/13N Dakota St15670%
12/18@Murray St11235%
12/21@Evansville28271%
12/29Illinois St10354%
1/4Indiana St18576%
1/7@Bradley12538%
1/10Belmont7442%
1/14@S Illinois11736%
1/17@IL Chicago20258%
1/21Murray St11257%
1/24@Indiana St18555%
1/28Evansville28287%
1/31Bradley12561%
2/3@Belmont7422%
2/6@Illinois St10332%
2/9Valparaiso19877%
2/12IL Chicago20278%
2/15@Northern Iowa9830%
2/18S Illinois11758%
2/25@Valparaiso19857%
3/1Northern Iowa9852%