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 St | 138 | L76-68 |
| 11/8 | @NJIT | 332 | W74-53 |
| 11/10 | @Seton Hall | 51 | L82-59 |
| 11/14 | Stonehill | 334 | W73-71 |
| 11/16 | Loyola MD | 322 | W85-82 |
| 11/22 | @Le Moyne | 299 | W97-83 |
| 11/26 | Columbia | 189 | L106-77 |
| 11/30 | New Hampshire | 349 | W72-68 |
| 12/5 | @Manhattan | 330 | L70-66 |
| 12/7 | @Merrimack | 179 | L74-63 |
| 12/14 | Monmouth NJ | 180 | W73-65 |
| 12/18 | @Central Conn | 306 | W84-70 |
| 12/29 | St Peter's | 255 | L70-66 |
| 1/2 | @Canisius | 342 | L85-81 |
| 1/4 | @Niagara | 338 | W83-75 |
| 1/9 | Rider | 357 | W68-62 |
| 1/14 | Manhattan | 330 | W98-62 |
| 1/17 | @Marist | 204 | L82-67 |
| 1/19 | @Siena | 192 | L85-77 |
| 1/22 | Niagara | 338 | W62-61 |
| 1/24 | Canisius | 342 | W61-55 |
| 1/30 | @Iona | 259 | W71-70 |
| 2/1 | Quinnipiac | 219 | L72-65 |
| 2/5 | @Sacred Heart | 296 | W92-87 |
| 2/7 | Marist | 204 | W63-60 |
| 2/15 | @St Peter's | 255 | L83-74 |
| 2/20 | Sacred Heart | 296 | W78-68 |
| 2/22 | @Quinnipiac | 219 | W85-79 |
| 2/27 | Siena | 192 | W72-58 |
| 3/1 | Mt St Mary's | 277 | L69-47 |
| 3/5 | (N)Manhattan | 330 | W71-60 |
| 3/6 | (N)St Peter's | 255 | W74-55 |
| 3/8 | (N)Siena | 192 | L76-61 |