NCAA Tournament March Madness

#224 La Salle

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

La Salle’s profile makes it clear why the team is headed to the conference tournament as its only realistic path to the field because the resume lacks the kind of signature road or neutral wins that impress the committee and it carries a string of damaging defeats against top opponents. The club has shown it can beat league peers at home, with wins over Dayton and St. Bonaventure and a gutsy victory at Rhode Island and a neutral-site triumph over Drexel, but those bright spots are offset by heavy losses on the road at Michigan and at St. Louis and by blowouts to George Washington that expose inconsistency against top teams. The nonconference slate produced little to lift the resume and road performance outside the league has been thin, so there is limited upside for an at-large case. With a final regular-season trip to St. Joseph’s as the last chance to add a résumé-altering result, the selection committee would likely view La Salle as dependent on an automatic berth rather than a team that has done enough to earn an invitation.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5Coppin St363W87-59
11/8Monmouth NJ187W73-60
11/11@Temple166L90-63
11/15(N)Penn St137L83-69
11/19Villanova32L70-55
11/28(N)Hofstra92L63-58
11/29@Penn162L73-71
11/30(N)Merrimack170L66-60
12/6(N)Drexel219W69-64
12/13@LIU Brooklyn215L70-60
12/19@High Point93L84-72
12/21@Michigan2L102-50
12/31George Mason109L80-75
1/3@G Washington79L77-55
1/7@Rhode Island129W79-72
1/10St Louis31L84-72
1/14@Richmond146L74-53
1/17St Bonaventure155W78-74
1/21Dayton81W67-64
1/28@Fordham172L64-58
1/31St Joseph's PA127L67-58
2/3@Loyola-Chicago301L71-61
2/7@St Louis31L82-58
2/11VCU45L77-68
2/18@Duquesne132L62-61
2/21Rhode Island129W59-46
2/24G Washington79L104-77
3/1@Davidson111L71-64
3/4Fordham172W87-84
3/7@St Joseph's PA12720%