NCAA Tournament March Madness

#257 La Salle

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

La Salle’s resume reads like a team that has collected comfortable home wins against lesser opponents while getting routed or coming up short in the bigger tests away and on neutral courts, which leaves its best moments thin and its worst moments glaring. The most encouraging results are the comfortable victories over Coppin State and Monmouth and the gritty neutral-site triumph over Drexel, but those are offset by a crushing trip to Michigan and heavy setbacks at Temple and against Villanova that will stick out to the selection group. Narrow defeats at Penn and in other nonconference neutral games show fight but do not erase the absence of a true signature road or neutral victory. The upcoming conference slate presents clear avenues to change the narrative with games against George Mason, Saint Louis, Richmond, Saint Bonaventure, Dayton, VCU and a tricky road trip to Loyola Chicago, and La Salle’s path to bolstering its case runs through winning away from its own arena and seizing the few remaining opportunities for a genuine marquee win.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5Coppin St364W87-59
11/8Monmouth NJ245W73-60
11/11@Temple149L90-63
11/15(N)Penn St129L83-69
11/19Villanova27L70-55
11/28(N)Hofstra101L63-58
11/29@Penn214L73-71
11/30(N)Merrimack259L66-60
12/6(N)Drexel287W69-64
12/13@LIU Brooklyn206L70-60
12/19@High Point91L84-72
12/21@Michigan1L102-50
12/31George Mason9021%
1/3@G Washington687%
1/7@Rhode Island11715%
1/10St Louis409%
1/14@Richmond12015%
1/17St Bonaventure11430%
1/21Dayton7218%
1/28@Fordham18928%
1/31St Joseph's PA20451%
2/3@Loyola-Chicago28245%
2/7@St Louis403%
2/11VCU4311%
2/18@Duquesne12616%
2/21Rhode Island11731%
2/24G Washington6817%
3/1@Davidson13417%
3/4Fordham18949%
3/7@St Joseph's PA20430%