NCAA Tournament March Madness

#305 Lehigh

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Lehigh’s résumé reads like a team that has shown it can beat mid‑major opposition and compete away from home but has also been exposed in true road tests, and that contrast is the reason their profile sits where it does. Their best moments include a clear win over St. Francis PA, a neutral‑site victory over Texas State, and a gritty neutral contest with UC Santa Barbara that suggested they can hang with quality mid‑majors, while their worst moments are the heavy defeats at Houston and West Virginia and the damaging losses at Rutgers, Marist and Binghamton plus home setbacks to Columbia and LIU Brooklyn that underline inconsistency. The remaining Patriot League slate gives them a straightforward path to rehabilitate the résumé with a string of home opportunities against conference foes and a handful of critical road tests at places like Colgate, Bucknell and Navy that would carry extra weight, so the committee will be watching whether Lehigh can protect its home court and pick up the sorts of road wins that erase the nonconference blemishes.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Houston8L75-57
11/9@West Virginia69L69-47
11/14@Rutgers145L84-72
11/18St Francis PA360W79-62
11/21Columbia130L82-67
11/25@Marist155L78-55
11/28(N)UC Santa Barbara147L72-70
11/29(N)Texas St236W78-74
12/2@Binghamton358L80-71
12/6LIU Brooklyn217L87-82
12/21@Monmouth NJ21623%
12/31Army33671%
1/3@Bucknell30439%
1/7Holy Cross29358%
1/10@Colgate16516%
1/14@Boston Univ29838%
1/17Navy20240%
1/19Loyola MD33771%
1/24Lafayette32567%
1/28@Army33650%
1/31Colgate16534%
2/4@Loyola MD33750%
2/7@Holy Cross29336%
2/11American Univ23246%
2/14@Lafayette32545%
2/18@Navy20221%
2/21Boston Univ29860%
2/25@American Univ23226%
2/28Bucknell30461%