NCAA Tournament March Madness

#143 Kent

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Kent's résumé leaves little margin for error, so the team's clearest path to the NCAA field is winning the Mid-American Conference tournament. The profile includes encouraging moments — road victories at Buffalo and Massachusetts and neutral-site wins over Cleveland State and Wright State — but those are offset by damaging results that will stick with the committee. A nonconference loss to Troy and a trip to Purdue that exposed defensive shortcomings, capped by a decisive road loss at Akron, undermine the quality of the resume. The remaining schedule still provides concrete opportunities to change perception with resume-building road wins at Akron and at Toledo and by avoiding further bad losses at home or on the road, but without that late surge the only surefire route in is the conference crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Troy146L103-97
11/7Cornell172W110-102
11/10UNC Wilmington113W86-77
11/15(N)Cleveland St304W102-95
11/16(N)Wright St132W76-72
11/18E Kentucky266W93-78
11/22Cleveland St304W91-71
12/3Austin Peay166W96-84
12/14@Portland216L88-78
12/20@Massachusetts183W69-59
12/29@Purdue8L101-60
1/3N Illinois301W77-73
1/6Bowling Green133W96-93
1/10@C Michigan292L87-85
1/13@Buffalo184W87-81
1/16Toledo153W87-84
1/20Miami OH90L107-101
1/24@E Michigan224W76-75
1/27Ohio219W72-57
1/30@Akron52L69-52
2/3@Toledo15341%
2/7@Southern Miss24661%
2/11E Michigan22476%
2/14@Ball St30876%
2/17@Bowling Green13337%
2/24C Michigan29287%
2/28Akron5231%
3/3@N Illinois30173%
3/6W Michigan26583%