NCAA Tournament March Madness

#282 Evansville

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Evansville’s résumé has a few encouraging flashes — a neutral-site win over Oregon State and a gritty road showing at WKU — but those positives are undermined by ugly setbacks, most glaringly at Purdue and in neutral losses to Akron and College Charleston, along with poor nonconference results against MTSU and UT Arlington. What a committee will see is a scarcity of signature wins and inconsistent performance away from home, leaving the team reliant on a series of upcoming opportunities to change the narrative. Home dates with Illinois Chicago and Valparaiso are straightforward chances to build a cleaner profile while road trips to Belmont, Drake, Northern Iowa and Murray State and the trip to Notre Dame offer the sort of neutral or road victories that actually move the needle. Until Evansville starts converting those tests and stops piling up damaging defeats, its résumé will be defined more by bad losses than by isolated strong results.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Purdue5L82-51
11/12MTSU155L77-72
11/18UT Arlington168L84-76
11/21(N)Oregon St179W73-69
11/23(N)Akron54L97-59
11/24(N)Col Charleston182L78-59
12/3Ball St321W64-52
12/6@WKU147L80-79
12/13@Notre Dame604%
12/16Belmont7415%
12/21Drake12629%
12/29@Bradley12513%
1/1@Illinois St10310%
1/4Northern Iowa9821%
1/7Murray St11225%
1/10@Indiana St18524%
1/13Bradley12528%
1/20@IL Chicago20226%
1/25S Illinois11726%
1/28@Drake12613%
1/31@Northern Iowa989%
2/3Indiana St18544%
2/6@Valparaiso19826%
2/9Illinois St10323%
2/12@S Illinois11712%
2/18IL Chicago20247%
2/21@Murray St11211%
2/25@Belmont745%
2/28Valparaiso19846%