NCAA Tournament March Madness

#219 La Salle

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

La Salle looks like a team that must win the A-10 tournament to make the NCAA field because its résumé contains a few respectable signatures but also several damaging setbacks; the high points include home victories over St. Bonaventure and Dayton, a gritty neutral-site win over Drexel and an impressive road victory at Rhode Island that prove they can win away from home, yet those are offset by lopsided losses at Michigan and at Temple and tough road defeats at George Washington and Richmond that undercut the profile the committee prizes. The nonconference slate produced too many missed chances and narrow losses at Penn and Hofstra that provide little upside, and the conference run has been uneven with a bad result at Saint Louis further hurting their case. Remaining chances on the road at Loyola-Chicago and Davidson and home dates that include Rhode Island, VCU and others give La Salle pathways to repair the résumé, but those are the sorts of quality wins the committee would want to see before awarding an at-large bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5Coppin St364W87-59
11/8Monmouth NJ213W73-60
11/11@Temple144L90-63
11/15(N)Penn St118L83-69
11/19Villanova24L70-55
11/28(N)Hofstra109L63-58
11/29@Penn178L73-71
11/30(N)Merrimack209L66-60
12/6(N)Drexel207W69-64
12/13@LIU Brooklyn212L70-60
12/19@High Point96L84-72
12/21@Michigan1L102-50
12/31George Mason73L80-75
1/3@G Washington74L77-55
1/7@Rhode Island111W79-72
1/10St Louis29L84-72
1/14@Richmond116L74-53
1/17St Bonaventure145W78-74
1/21Dayton77W67-64
1/28@Fordham20036%
1/31St Joseph's PA17353%
2/3@Loyola-Chicago30958%
2/7@St Louis293%
2/11VCU4916%
2/18@Duquesne12822%
2/21Rhode Island11136%
2/24G Washington7423%
3/1@Davidson13122%
3/4Fordham20058%
3/7@St Joseph's PA17331%