NCAA Tournament March Madness

#286 Houston Chr

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Houston Christian’s resume is built around a pair of meaningful road wins at New Orleans and at Citadel and a solid home victory over ULM that demonstrate the team can win away from its gym, but those highs are tempered by heavy road losses at UC San Diego and Georgia Southern, a neutral-site setback to Bellarmine and a damaging home loss to SE Louisiana that blunt the resume. A tight loss at North Texas suggests the team can compete with better programs on the road but close defeats do little to erase the bad books that selection committees remember. The remaining slate offers clear chances to reverse the narrative with conference wins both at places like Nicholls State and Texas A&M–Corpus Christi and at home against the likes of McNeese State and New Orleans while the trip to Iowa State stands as a showcase opportunity against a top opponent. In short, the team’s few solid road results are promising but the heavy losses and lack of a marquee nonconference scalp mean the only reliable path to change how the resume is judged runs through taking care of business in the Southland slate.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@UC San Diego84L78-60
11/13ULM353W72-61
11/25(N)Bellarmine259L74-69
11/26@Citadel357W72-65
11/29@Ga Southern233L80-62
12/2@North Texas139L77-75
12/6@New Orleans220W85-76
12/13SE Louisiana284L74-71
12/15McNeese St71L78-68
12/17@Nicholls St23131%
12/29@Iowa St30%
1/3@Incarnate Word17722%
1/5TAM C. Christi22151%
1/10@SF Austin13615%
1/12@Lamar25433%
1/17East Texas A&M29063%
1/19Northwestern LA29263%
1/24UTRGV17842%
1/26Incarnate Word17741%
1/31@TAM C. Christi22129%
2/2@UTRGV17822%
2/7@SE Louisiana28439%
2/9@McNeese St715%
2/14New Orleans22051%
2/16Nicholls St23152%
2/21@Northwestern LA29241%
2/23@East Texas A&M29040%
2/28SF Austin13632%
3/2Lamar25455%