NCAA Tournament March Madness

#233 La Salle

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

La Salle’s resume reads like a club with a few decent wins but too many damaging defeats, so the cleanest route to the NCAA tournament is through the conference tournament. The resume’s brightest moments are a neutral-site victory over Drexel and a road win at Rhode Island plus home triumphs over Dayton and St. Bonaventure, yet those are overwhelmed by ugly outings on the road and at neutral sites, most notably the blowout at Michigan and the lopsided losses to George Washington and Villanova that will leap off a committee’s page. Trips to Temple, Richmond, St. Louis and Loyola‑Chicago produced no signature wins and the team has failed to establish consistent success away from its building, which leaves little margin for error for an at-large case. Given that mix of underwhelming nonconference results, a thin list of quadrant-type victories and clear vulnerability on the road, winning the conference tournament is the realistic path to the field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5Coppin St363W87-59
11/8Monmouth NJ180W73-60
11/11@Temple165L90-63
11/15(N)Penn St138L83-69
11/19Villanova33L70-55
11/28(N)Hofstra87L63-58
11/29@Penn150L73-71
11/30(N)Merrimack179L66-60
12/6(N)Drexel222W69-64
12/13@LIU Brooklyn216L70-60
12/19@High Point92L84-72
12/21@Michigan3L102-50
12/31George Mason96L80-75
1/3@G Washington85L77-55
1/7@Rhode Island135W79-72
1/10St Louis41L84-72
1/14@Richmond160L74-53
1/17St Bonaventure139W78-74
1/21Dayton78W67-64
1/28@Fordham166L64-58
1/31St Joseph's PA116L67-58
2/3@Loyola-Chicago280L71-61
2/7@St Louis41L82-58
2/11VCU45L77-68
2/18@Duquesne128L62-61
2/21Rhode Island135W59-46
2/24G Washington85L104-77
3/1@Davidson114L71-64
3/4Fordham166W87-84
3/7@St Joseph's PA116L88-76
3/11(N)St Bonaventure139L99-80