NCAA Tournament March Madness

#199 Fordham

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Fordham’s résumé shows a team that can get stops but hasn’t produced the sort of signature victories that ease a committee’s concerns, with comfortable wins coming against lower-tier nonconference foes while costly setbacks — an on-the-road loss at Iona, a neutral-court defeat to Colgate and a home loss to Holy Cross — leave the profile thin. The season so far contains very few victories over the better league names, so those blemishes stand out and carry extra weight because they aren’t balanced by any marquee road or neutral wins. The remainder of the Atlantic Ten schedule presents clear chances to change the narrative — high-profile trips to Dayton, St Louis, St Bonaventure and Davidson and home dates with Richmond, VCU and other conference opponents — and a string of road or neutral upsets against those recognizable teams would significantly improve how the résumé is judged while falling short will leave it largely where it sits now.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4NJIT354L72-61
11/11Wagner300W63-61
11/14@Iona181L76-71
11/20LIU Brooklyn204W69-53
11/29(N)SUNY Albany314W88-68
11/30(N)Colgate186L72-62
12/6Holy Cross329L70-69
12/10F Dickinson357W75-54
12/13Manhattan313W82-53
12/22New Haven348W65-47
12/31@Dayton6410%
1/4Richmond11038%
1/7George Mason8729%
1/10@St Bonaventure11621%
1/14@St Louis416%
1/17Duquesne12543%
1/21@Davidson13325%
1/28La Salle26171%
1/31@G Washington8013%
2/3VCU4316%
2/7St Bonaventure11641%
2/10@St Joseph's PA19739%
2/14@Rhode Island10819%
2/18Loyola-Chicago29778%
2/21Davidson13346%
2/28@VCU436%
3/4@La Salle26150%
3/7Rhode Island10837%