NCAA Tournament March Madness

#239 La Salle

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

La Salle's résumé reads like a promise unfulfilled, with its best moments coming in the road victory at Rhode Island and home wins over St. Bonaventure and Dayton while its worst moments include the blowout at Michigan and heavy losses at St. Louis and at George Washington. A neutral-site setback to Villanova and narrow defeats away at Penn and elsewhere reinforce a theme of struggling in hostile and neutral environments that will weigh on the committee. Most of the victories have come against lesser opponents so they carry limited credit against those damaging losses, which makes the remaining slate — trips to Duquesne and Davidson and home dates with Rhode Island, George Washington and Fordham plus a road game at Saint Joseph's — the clear runway to improve. Winning the tougher road tests and avoiding another bad loss would recast the résumé as one trending upward while failing to seize those opportunities will leave it defined more by inconsistency than quality.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5Coppin St364W87-59
11/8Monmouth NJ206W73-60
11/11@Temple155L90-63
11/15(N)Penn St124L83-69
11/19Villanova26L70-55
11/28(N)Hofstra102L63-58
11/29@Penn180L73-71
11/30(N)Merrimack169L66-60
12/6(N)Drexel227W69-64
12/13@LIU Brooklyn208L70-60
12/19@High Point92L84-72
12/21@Michigan1L102-50
12/31George Mason96L80-75
1/3@G Washington77L77-55
1/7@Rhode Island116W79-72
1/10St Louis23L84-72
1/14@Richmond135L74-53
1/17St Bonaventure145W78-74
1/21Dayton97W67-64
1/28@Fordham159L64-58
1/31St Joseph's PA153L67-58
2/3@Loyola-Chicago314L71-61
2/7@St Louis23L82-58
2/11VCU46L77-68
2/18@Duquesne11115%
2/21Rhode Island11634%
2/24G Washington7722%
3/1@Davidson10614%
3/4Fordham15944%
3/7@St Joseph's PA15323%