NCAA Tournament March Madness

#298 Grambling

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Grambling’s profile shows why the safe route is to rely on the Southwestern AC automatic berth: its only résumé highlights are neutral-court wins over Norfolk State and Hampton and a gritty road victory at Howard, but those are outweighed by damaging blowouts on true road stages at Iowa State and Ohio State and by nonconference defeats at San Diego, Cal Baptist and UC Riverside. The team held serve at times in league play with wins over Prairie View and Texas Southern and picked up road wins at Jackson State and Alcorn State, yet a pattern of road losses to Texas Southern, Prairie View and Southern University and an inability to upset a high-profile opponent away from home leave the profile thin for an at-large case. The conference tournament is therefore the decisive opportunity; given the quality of the best results and the severity of the worst, the most realistic path to the national field is to win the league’s automatic spot.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Iowa St7L102-62
11/9@Howard202W73-70
11/13Southern Miss220W75-70
11/18@San Diego224L78-68
11/21@Cal Baptist112L72-59
11/24@UC Riverside260L83-74
12/2@Tulane210L65-63
12/8@Southern Miss220L68-60
12/18(N)Norfolk St321W80-68
12/19(N)Hampton272W81-72
12/23@Ohio St26L89-63
1/3Prairie View312W76-72
1/5TX Southern308W84-67
1/10@Bethune-Cookman238L74-65
1/12@Florida A&M316L91-84
1/17Southern Univ275L71-53
1/31@Jackson St341W69-66
2/2@Alcorn St347W74-50
2/4Ark Pine Bluff315L67-64
2/7Alabama St319W57-47
2/9Alabama A&M301L66-58
2/14@TX Southern308L82-79
2/16@Prairie View312L68-63
2/21@Southern Univ275L87-73
2/23MS Valley St365W83-62
2/26Bethune-Cookman238L76-71
2/28Florida A&M316L66-59
3/3@Alabama A&M301L77-63
3/5@Alabama St319W65-63
3/9(N)MS Valley St36588%