NCAA Tournament March Madness

#263 Fairfield

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Fairfield being pegged to need the automatic qualifier lines up with how its résumé reads: its most convincing moments came in league play and in hostile settings where road wins at Iona and at Quinnipiac and neutral‑site victories over Manhattan and St. Peter’s showed the team can win away from home, but those positives are offset by damaging nonconference setbacks, most notably the heavy trip to Seton Hall and the home drubbing by Columbia and the ugly loss at Mount St. Mary’s, plus a handful of road defeats that undercut consistency. The schedule included tough road assignments that produced losses instead of signature wins, so while the program has shown it can grind out important league victories, it has not built the kind of marquee résumé that would carry it without winning the Metro Atlantic Conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Penn St138L76-68
11/8@NJIT332W74-53
11/10@Seton Hall51L82-59
11/14Stonehill334W73-71
11/16Loyola MD322W85-82
11/22@Le Moyne299W97-83
11/26Columbia189L106-77
11/30New Hampshire349W72-68
12/5@Manhattan330L70-66
12/7@Merrimack179L74-63
12/14Monmouth NJ180W73-65
12/18@Central Conn306W84-70
12/29St Peter's255L70-66
1/2@Canisius342L85-81
1/4@Niagara338W83-75
1/9Rider357W68-62
1/14Manhattan330W98-62
1/17@Marist204L82-67
1/19@Siena192L85-77
1/22Niagara338W62-61
1/24Canisius342W61-55
1/30@Iona259W71-70
2/1Quinnipiac219L72-65
2/5@Sacred Heart296W92-87
2/7Marist204W63-60
2/15@St Peter's255L83-74
2/20Sacred Heart296W78-68
2/22@Quinnipiac219W85-79
2/27Siena192W72-58
3/1Mt St Mary's277L69-47
3/5(N)Manhattan330W71-60
3/6(N)St Peter's255W74-55
3/8(N)Siena192L76-61