NCAA Tournament March Madness

#329 Holy Cross

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

A brutal nonconference stretch that included road trips to Providence, BYU and Utah left Holy Cross with several damaging defeats while heavy losses at Dartmouth and Harvard further weakened the résumé. The program’s best evidence is a neutral win over Hampton, a gritty victory at Fordham and a solid result against Northeastern, which at least shows the ability to win away from home and in neutral settings. The Patriot League slate still features tough road tests at Colgate, Lehigh, Bucknell and Boston University alongside home opportunities against Army, Lafayette and Loyola Maryland, so there are multiple chances to add the kind of road and neutral victories the committee prizes but also clear pitfalls that would deepen the damage from earlier bad losses. With a mix of limited upper‑level wins and a handful of ugly defeats, the clearest route to a resume that will hold up is a strong finish through the remainder of league play and the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Providence75L89-79
11/8@BYU10L98-53
11/10@Utah124L87-69
11/16(N)Hampton255W67-61
11/18@Brown238L68-49
11/21@Sacred Heart286L79-66
11/24Siena176L73-69
12/3Northeastern213W76-59
12/6@Fordham199W70-69
12/16Dartmouth253L89-64
12/20@Harvard182L81-53
12/31Bucknell30353%
1/3Navy20232%
1/7@Lehigh31133%
1/10@American Univ25421%
1/14Army33462%
1/17@Lafayette32337%
1/21@Navy20215%
1/24American Univ25441%
1/28@Colgate18614%
1/31@Army33440%
2/2Boston Univ29349%
2/7Lehigh31155%
2/11Colgate18630%
2/15@Loyola MD32839%
2/18Lafayette32359%
2/22@Bucknell30332%
2/25@Boston Univ29328%
2/28Loyola MD32861%