NCAA Tournament March Madness

#312 IUPUI

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

IUPUI’s résumé leaves it dependent on an automatic bid because its best moments — a road win at Eastern Michigan, a victory at Oakland and home wins over Cleveland State and Morehead State — show it can score but come against modest opponents and are overwhelmed by damaging results such as heavy defeats at Ohio State and Butler and a neutral-site setback to Alabama State. Road form is a recurrent problem, with losses at Grand Canyon, Green Bay, Milwaukee and Northern Kentucky underscoring an inability to finish away from home, and an unexpected loss to LIU Brooklyn and a blowout to Youngstown State further erode any at-large argument. A couple of conference wins and a late offensive outing against Robert Morris offer a sliver of hope, yet there are no signature neutral or high-quality road victories to convince the committee. With the remaining slate featuring tough road tests at Purdue Fort Wayne and Wright State and home dates against Oakland and Milwaukee the practical path back into the bracket runs through winning the Horizon League tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Ohio St40L118-102
11/6LIU Brooklyn208L94-90
11/8@Butler81L112-80
11/14@E Michigan229W90-83
11/18@Charleston So247L103-91
11/21(N)Alabama St305L101-80
11/23@Air Force347L98-85
11/29Morehead St288W85-80
12/3@Detroit257L92-78
12/6Youngstown St200L78-55
12/11WI Green Bay218L85-75
12/22@Grand Canyon68L91-78
12/29@Cleveland St304L99-86
1/1@N Kentucky192L81-72
1/4Wright St147L81-77
1/9@WI Green Bay218L75-59
1/11@WI Milwaukee268L95-83
1/15Robert Morris187W96-93
1/17Detroit257L80-77
1/21@Oakland137W103-85
1/28@Robert Morris187L74-58
1/30@Youngstown St200L85-76
2/7Cleveland St304W82-74
2/10WI Milwaukee268L92-88
2/12N Kentucky192L84-81
2/15@PFW25925%
2/19@Wright St14711%
2/25Oakland13723%
2/28WI Milwaukee26850%