NCAA Tournament March Madness

#202 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@Charlotte186L92-76
11/10@SIUE248W64-55
11/14@Duke6L100-62
11/19Louisiana Tech188W60-51
11/22Ball St316W70-52
11/26@Louisiana Tech188L75-73
11/28(N)Alcorn St334L81-74
12/7Southern Indiana337W77-55
12/14@WI Milwaukee221W70-68
12/18Bradley117L108-99
12/21@Illinois St89L85-65
12/29Belmont6223%
1/1@Northern Iowa9114%
1/4@Drake14526%
1/10Evansville27473%
1/14Illinois St8930%
1/17@Murray St9615%
1/21@Bradley11721%
1/24Drake14547%
1/27@IL Chicago19938%
1/31Valparaiso20662%
2/3@Evansville27452%
2/9S Illinois11941%
2/12Murray St9631%
2/15@Valparaiso20640%
2/18Northern Iowa9130%
2/21@Belmont6210%
2/25@S Illinois11921%
3/1IL Chicago19961%