NCAA Tournament March Madness

#317 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 St26L118-102
11/6LIU Brooklyn216L94-90
11/8@Butler86L112-80
11/14@E Michigan239W90-83
11/18@Charleston So241L103-91
11/21(N)Alabama St318L101-80
11/23@Air Force345L98-85
11/29Morehead St283W85-80
12/3@Detroit217L92-78
12/6Youngstown St214L78-55
12/11WI Green Bay210L85-75
12/22@Grand Canyon61L91-78
12/29@Cleveland St320L99-86
1/1@N Kentucky176L81-72
1/4Wright St140L81-77
1/9@WI Green Bay210L75-59
1/11@WI Milwaukee268L95-83
1/15Robert Morris144W96-93
1/17Detroit217L80-77
1/21@Oakland169W103-85
1/28@Robert Morris144L74-58
1/30@Youngstown St214L85-76
2/7Cleveland St320W82-74
2/10WI Milwaukee268L92-88
2/12N Kentucky176L84-81
2/15@PFW260L83-78
2/19@Wright St140L85-73
2/25Oakland169L86-74
2/28PFW260L87-81
3/2@Cleveland St320L101-93