NCAA Tournament March Madness

#342 Jackson St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Jackson State’s body of work leaves the selection committee little choice because brutal road blowouts at Illinois, Louisville, Arkansas, Auburn, Houston and TCU exposed a clear gap with major conference competition while neutral-site setbacks and losses to lower-end conference foes undermined any claim to quality wins. The few bright moments, an on-the-road victory at Louisiana and conference road wins at Alabama State, Florida A&M and Mississippi Valley State plus home victories over Alcorn State and Prairie View, are real but they do not cancel the damage from those lopsided defeats or constitute the kind of road and neutral wins the committee rewards. The resume reads inconsistent inside the league and safely short of marquee nonconference success, so the only practical path to the NCAA tournament is to capture the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s automatic berth and erase the doubts those losses created.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Illinois5L113-55
11/6@Louisville17L106-70
11/15@Louisiana Tech231L68-51
11/19@Auburn40L112-66
11/21@Arkansas16L115-61
11/23Winthrop144L80-62
11/28@Louisiana315W51-45
12/2@Kennesaw176L88-73
12/10@Houston6L80-38
12/13@Northwestern66L93-53
12/18(N)Hampton273L84-77
12/19(N)Norfolk St321L82-72
12/29@TCU44L115-64
1/3Alcorn St352W89-86
1/10@Alabama St317W75-64
1/12@Alabama A&M298L100-91
1/17Prairie View312W82-78
1/19TX Southern307W94-89
1/24@Bethune-Cookman235L85-48
1/26@Florida A&M316W66-65
1/31Grambling297L69-66
2/2Southern Univ279L96-91
2/7@MS Valley St365W97-81
2/9@Ark Pine Bluff314L84-63
2/14Florida A&M316W80-60
2/16Bethune-Cookman235W91-86
2/21@Alcorn St352L83-65
2/26@Prairie View312L85-76
2/28@TX Southern307L82-57
3/3Ark Pine Bluff314W81-78
3/5MS Valley St365W85-77