NCAA Tournament March Madness

#318 IUPUI

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

IUPUI’s profile makes clear why their only safe path to the NCAA tournament is winning the Horizon tournament. The team has shown it can win away from home with a road victory at Eastern Michigan and another at Oakland and it has picked up meaningful home wins over Morehead State, Robert Morris and Cleveland State, but those moments are outweighed by damaging setbacks such as the lopsided trip to Ohio State, surprising home defeats to LIU Brooklyn and Youngstown State and heavy losses at Butler and Grand Canyon that expose defensive lapses and inconsistency on the road. With nonconference quality wins sparse and poor results away from neutral sites and conference opponents piling up, IUPUI lacks the résumé buffer for an at-large case and will need a streak in the Horizon tournament to change the narrative.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Ohio St27L118-102
11/6LIU Brooklyn215L94-90
11/8@Butler88L112-80
11/14@E Michigan242W90-83
11/18@Charleston So241L103-91
11/21(N)Alabama St317L101-80
11/23@Air Force345L98-85
11/29Morehead St275W85-80
12/3@Detroit220L92-78
12/6Youngstown St213L78-55
12/11WI Green Bay194L85-75
12/22@Grand Canyon63L91-78
12/29@Cleveland St323L99-86
1/1@N Kentucky177L81-72
1/4Wright St147L81-77
1/9@WI Green Bay194L75-59
1/11@WI Milwaukee269L95-83
1/15Robert Morris141W96-93
1/17Detroit220L80-77
1/21@Oakland164W103-85
1/28@Robert Morris141L74-58
1/30@Youngstown St213L85-76
2/7Cleveland St323W82-74
2/10WI Milwaukee269L92-88
2/12N Kentucky177L84-81
2/15@PFW262L83-78
2/19@Wright St147L85-73
2/25Oakland164L86-74
2/28PFW262L87-81
3/2@Cleveland St323L101-93