NCAA Tournament March Madness
#272 Hampton
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Projection: need to automatically qualify
Hampton’s profile explains the projection because the résumé carries a handful of bright spots but is dominated by damaging results away from home and a lack of meaningful nonconference scalps. The team’s gritty road win at Brown, home successes over Loyola MD and William & Mary and a neutral-site victory over Jackson St show it can beat midlevel foes, yet those moments are outweighed by a blowout loss at Virginia, a brutal defeat at Hofstra and a series of road setbacks at Boston College, Towson, Drexel and Col Charleston that expose inconsistency away from home. Conference play produced some tight wins but also a late slide that included UNC Wilmington and Stony Brook, so with few signature wins outside the league the clear pathway to the national tournament is to win the Coastal conference crown.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/3 | @WI Milwaukee | 268 | L90-86 |
| 11/11 | @Virginia | 13 | L91-53 |
| 11/14 | @Brown | 290 | W72-63 |
| 11/16 | (N)Holy Cross | 329 | L67-61 |
| 11/18 | @Boston College | 156 | L63-52 |
| 11/21 | @Norfolk St | 327 | L62-60 |
| 11/25 | @MD E Shore | 350 | W74-68 |
| 12/3 | Loyola MD | 322 | W93-71 |
| 12/13 | (N)Howard | 207 | L61-57 |
| 12/18 | (N)Jackson St | 341 | W84-77 |
| 12/19 | (N)Grambling | 298 | L81-72 |
| 12/29 | Stony Brook | 227 | W62-59 |
| 12/31 | Towson | 157 | W63-62 |
| 1/3 | @UNC Wilmington | 110 | L49-45 |
| 1/8 | @Campbell | 182 | L86-72 |
| 1/10 | @Col Charleston | 172 | L74-70 |
| 1/19 | NC A&T | 291 | W82-61 |
| 1/22 | Monmouth NJ | 180 | W65-63 |
| 1/24 | UNC Wilmington | 110 | L75-67 |
| 1/29 | @Drexel | 222 | L58-51 |
| 1/31 | @Towson | 157 | L82-50 |
| 2/5 | Elon | 230 | W87-79 |
| 2/7 | William & Mary | 149 | W77-74 |
| 2/13 | (N)NC A&T | 291 | L71-70 |
| 2/19 | @Hofstra | 87 | L79-43 |
| 2/21 | @Stony Brook | 227 | L79-72 |
| 2/26 | Col Charleston | 172 | L85-71 |
| 2/28 | Northeastern | 286 | W76-65 |
| 3/3 | @William & Mary | 149 | L94-85 |
| 3/7 | (N)Towson | 157 | L74-68 |