NCAA Tournament March Madness

#300 Lehigh

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Lehigh’s profile points to the necessity of an automatic bid because the nonconference ledger is dominated by heavy road defeats at Houston and West Virginia and an unimpressive home loss to Columbia, leaving it without a marquee quad win to sell to a committee, while its best moments come from gritty road victories at Colgate and at Boston University and a narrow showing against UC Santa Barbara that demonstrate the team can win away from home. Conference victories over Holy Cross, Loyola Maryland and Lafayette stabilize the résumé but are counterbalanced by puzzling home setbacks to Patriot opponents and losses at midmajor programs such as Marist and Monmouth, so there are few signature wins to offset the damaging early results. With meaningful conference opportunities ahead, including a road trip to Navy and a chance to finish at Bucknell on its home floor, the team can still reshape the picture but the clearest path to the NCAA tournament runs through winning the league crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Houston4L75-57
11/9@West Virginia59L69-47
11/14@Rutgers161L84-72
11/18St Francis PA356W79-62
11/21Columbia204L82-67
11/25@Marist185L78-55
11/28(N)UC Santa Barbara117L72-70
11/29(N)Texas St245W78-74
12/2@Binghamton362L80-71
12/6LIU Brooklyn208L87-82
12/21@Monmouth NJ206L76-62
12/31Army338L85-78
1/3@Bucknell331L72-65
1/7Holy Cross328W66-58
1/10@Colgate213W78-77
1/14@Boston Univ280W93-91
1/17Navy157L82-79
1/19Loyola MD315W88-81
1/24Lafayette327W64-59
1/28@Army338L67-64
1/31Colgate213W77-76
2/4@Loyola MD315L89-84
2/7@Holy Cross328L76-67
2/11American Univ250W90-82
2/14@Lafayette327W78-69
2/18@Navy15714%
2/21Boston Univ28056%
2/25@American Univ25028%
2/28Bucknell33171%