NCAA Tournament March Madness

#286 East Texas A&M

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Needing to win the conference to reach the field fits East Texas A&M because its schedule contains isolated quality outcomes but is dominated by damaging losses on the road against power programs. The profile includes a neutral win over Army and a home victory over Central Arkansas along with some conference road successes, yet trips to major arenas like Connecticut and Texas A&M and road tests at New Mexico, Hawaii and Rice resulted in lopsided setbacks that blunt any at-large argument. Conference play has been uneven with home games showing resilience while road excursions delivered losses to the league’s stronger teams, leaving the résumé without a true marquee road or neutral victory a selection committee would prize. The clearest route to the NCAA Tournament is therefore to capture the Southland crown, because a short streak of wins there would erase the damage of those high-major road swings.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5@New Mexico49L76-54
11/9@Hawaii115L100-74
11/14@Rice226L71-64
11/24@F Dickinson336W70-65
11/25(N)Army337W84-67
12/5@Connecticut11L83-59
12/7Cent Arkansas150W75-68
12/12@McNeese St68L102-66
12/15@SE Louisiana285W70-69
12/21@Texas A&M34L118-77
12/29SF Austin89L75-48
12/31Lamar239L69-62
1/3@Nicholls St232L80-58
1/5@New Orleans182L83-73
1/10UTRGV124W77-69
1/12TAM C. Christi180L61-50
1/17@Houston Chr289L81-70
1/19@Incarnate Word266W80-58
1/27@Lamar239L82-61
1/31Nicholls St232L72-68
2/2New Orleans182L94-85
2/4@Northwestern LA280W74-68
2/7Northwestern LA280W52-48
2/9@SF Austin89L74-70
2/14McNeese St68L97-54
2/16SE Louisiana285W70-53
2/21Incarnate Word266L82-73
2/23Houston Chr289L69-68
2/28@UTRGV124L63-55
3/2@TAM C. Christi180L84-71