NCAA Tournament March Madness

#128 Duquesne

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Duquesne's resume leaves little margin for error, so needing to secure their conference's automatic bid is a fair assessment. A true road win at Davidson and a competitive trip to Villanova are the program's best evidence that it can take care of business away from home, but ugly defeats at Boise State and at Nevada and damaging home losses to St. Louis, VCU and Dayton blunt that case and keep the resume thin. Most nonconference victories came against inferior opponents and therefore do not replace the kind of signature neutral or road wins the committee prizes. Upcoming opportunities like the trip to Loyola-Chicago, a stretch of home dates against St Bonaventure, Rhode Island and Richmond and another meeting with Davidson are the final chances to add a resume-changing victory, so the most reliable path to the NCAA tournament runs through winning the league crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Niagara354W83-63
11/7Sacred Heart272W92-80
11/11Queens NC162W87-81
11/15@Villanova24L87-77
11/19Loyola MD329W92-78
11/22(N)Northeastern236L93-86
12/2William & Mary141L83-79
12/6Stony Brook258W84-75
12/10@Boise St69L86-64
12/13@Nevada65L78-75
12/22Canisius347W103-59
12/30@Davidson131W89-83
1/3VCU49L93-80
1/7@St Joseph's PA173L97-90
1/13Dayton77L71-65
1/17@Fordham200W74-63
1/20St Louis29L81-77
1/24@Loyola-Chicago30976%
1/28St Bonaventure14565%
2/1Rhode Island11156%
2/4@George Mason7321%
2/7G Washington7441%
2/14@St Bonaventure14543%
2/18La Salle21978%
2/21@Dayton7722%
2/25Davidson13161%
2/28@St Louis299%
3/4@Rhode Island11134%
3/7Richmond11658%