NCAA Tournament March Madness

#278 East Texas A&M

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

East Texas A&M's profile explains the projection because their résumé contains a handful of respectable moments, like the neutral-site victory over Army and road wins at F Dickinson and SE Louisiana, but those positives are overshadowed by brutal road losses at Connecticut, New Mexico and Texas A&M and lopsided defeats to McNeese State and SF Austin that weigh heavily against an at-large case. Conference play has produced some home wins against Central Arkansas and Northwestern Louisiana yet no signature neutral-site triumph to erase the damage from nonconference blowouts, and the team has struggled away from home when the committee most rewards it. The remaining games at Incarnate Word, at UTRGV, at Texas A&M Corpus Christi and a home date with Houston Christian are clear opportunities to patch the résumé, but they are unlikely to create the kind of top-level wins the committee looks for. Given the quality of the losses and the modest ceiling of the best wins, the cleanest, most realistic path to the NCAA field for this roster is to capture the Southland’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5@New Mexico44L76-54
11/9@Hawaii104L100-74
11/14@Rice231L71-64
11/24@F Dickinson329W70-65
11/25(N)Army340W84-67
12/5@Connecticut9L83-59
12/7Cent Arkansas163W75-68
12/12@McNeese St62L102-66
12/15@SE Louisiana284W70-69
12/21@Texas A&M35L118-77
12/29SF Austin82L75-48
12/31Lamar208L69-62
1/3@Nicholls St256L80-58
1/5@New Orleans198L83-73
1/10UTRGV135W77-69
1/12TAM C. Christi188L61-50
1/17@Houston Chr294L81-70
1/19@Incarnate Word277W80-58
1/27@Lamar208L82-61
1/31Nicholls St256L72-68
2/2New Orleans198L94-85
2/4@Northwestern LA281W74-68
2/7Northwestern LA281W52-48
2/9@SF Austin82L74-70
2/14McNeese St62L97-54
2/16SE Louisiana284W70-53
2/21Incarnate Word27761%
2/23Houston Chr29465%
2/28@UTRGV13515%
3/2@TAM C. Christi18822%