NCAA Tournament March Madness

#188 Indiana St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Indiana State’s resume mixes credible road and neutral moments with a string of damaging defeats that leave the committee wanting more. The team’s best outings include wins away at SIUE and at Milwaukee and a home victory over Louisiana Tech that demonstrate it can win outside its comfort zone, but splitting the season series with Louisiana Tech blunts that quality. The worst results — the lopsided trip to Duke, the home loss to Bradley and the neutral setback against Alcorn State — stick out as evidence of trouble against top competition and of inconsistency in close games. A sequence of road tests at Northern Iowa, Drake, Murray State and Belmont along with key conference home dates gives the Sycamores clear opportunities to add resume-changing road or neutral wins, and taking those chances is the clearest path to erase the damage of their bad losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Charlotte193L92-76
11/10@SIUE251W64-55
11/14@Duke6L100-62
11/19Louisiana Tech173W60-51
11/22Ball St315W70-52
11/26@Louisiana Tech173L75-73
11/28(N)Alcorn St336L81-74
12/7Southern Indiana335W77-55
12/14@WI Milwaukee205W70-68
12/18Bradley122L108-99
12/21@Illinois St78L85-65
12/29Belmont71W81-80
1/1@Northern Iowa9115%
1/4@Drake15431%
1/10Evansville27075%
1/14Illinois St7829%
1/17@Murray St9616%
1/21@Bradley12223%
1/24Drake15453%
1/27@IL Chicago20842%
1/31Valparaiso20964%
2/3@Evansville27054%
2/9S Illinois12043%
2/12Murray St9634%
2/15@Valparaiso20942%
2/18Northern Iowa9132%
2/21@Belmont7112%
2/25@S Illinois12023%
3/1IL Chicago20864%