NCAA Tournament March Madness

#325 Lafayette

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Lafayette’s resume leaves it with little margin for error, so its only realistic path to the NCAA tournament runs through the Patriot League automatic berth. The team’s best moments — a gutsy road win at Colgate and conference victories over Bucknell and Army plus a road win at Loyola MD — are outweighed by brutal losses at major-conference venues such as Texas, West Virginia and Georgia Tech and by damaging setbacks to low‑major opponents like Stonehill and Le Moyne. Road defeats at Penn and Charlotte underline uneven play away from home, and unless the team strings together wins in the league tournament against familiar conference foes it will have a very hard time convincing a committee that the résumé merits an invitation.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@St Joseph's PA116L85-76
11/8@Texas37L97-60
11/13Cornell164L97-78
11/17@West Virginia59L81-59
11/21@Stonehill334L74-70
11/28Le Moyne299L76-63
11/29Ball St294W55-37
11/30Monmouth NJ180L88-74
12/5Mercyhurst287W79-71
12/8@Penn150L74-72
12/18@Charlotte183L81-67
12/20@Georgia Tech162L95-81
12/31Colgate249L85-77
1/3@Loyola MD322W79-64
1/7Boston Univ261L83-67
1/10@Navy142L76-50
1/14@Bucknell331L76-69
1/17Holy Cross329W74-55
1/21@Boston Univ261L77-73
1/24@Lehigh284L64-59
1/28Bucknell331W81-79
1/31@American Univ238W67-65
2/4Navy142L65-50
2/7@Army337W63-60
2/11Loyola MD322L68-54
2/14Lehigh284L78-69
2/18@Holy Cross329W86-83
2/22American Univ238L75-61
2/25@Colgate249W70-69
2/28Army337W83-77
3/3Holy Cross329L82-77