NCAA Tournament March Madness

#281 E Kentucky

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Eastern Kentucky’s profile shows flashes, with road wins at Bellarmine, Jacksonville State and Eastern Illinois and solid home results against conference opposition, but those highlights are swamped by heavy losses at Vanderbilt, Wichita State and Kentucky and by defeats in hostile settings such as Illinois State and Austin Peay that expose a lack of résumé-defining victories. The best moments are clustered against lower-tier opponents and on familiar floors while the worst come on the bigger stages, and inconsistent head-to-heads with peers like North Alabama and Central Arkansas leave little margin for error. With few marquee nonconference wins and limited success away from home, the most straightforward route to the NCAA field is to win the Atlantic Sun tournament, with the remaining conference games and the league event providing the only realistic path to alter that outcome.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/10WKU159L87-79
11/12@Vanderbilt13L92-62
11/18@Kent138L93-78
11/22Mercer180L95-83
11/24@N Kentucky185L82-71
11/29Wofford247L83-77
12/3@Illinois St98L89-78
12/10@E Illinois324W68-59
12/13Miami OH84L79-69
12/17@Jacksonville St206W62-59
12/21@Wichita St93L88-57
1/1@Queens NC202L91-89
1/3@West Georgia319L88-76
1/8North Alabama341W88-80
1/10Cent Arkansas162W79-75
1/15@Austin Peay141L74-72
1/17Bellarmine280W89-69
1/22@North Florida334L87-85
1/24@Jacksonville306L81-76
1/28Austin Peay141L90-82
1/31@Cent Arkansas162L90-81
2/5FGCU246W76-74
2/7Stetson323W100-88
2/11@Lipscomb168L75-61
2/15@North Alabama341L84-78
2/18West Georgia319W81-80
2/21@Bellarmine280W95-92
2/25Queens NC20245%
2/28Lipscomb16838%