NCAA Tournament March Madness

#94 Liberty

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Projected seed: 13 (automatic qualifier)

Liberty’s body of work supports its current placement because the Flames have collected resume-building road wins at Dayton, Louisiana Tech and WKU and a solid home victory over Florida Atlantic while also showing the ability to blow teams out like Coppin State. Those highs are offset by a humiliating trip to NC State and neutral-site setbacks to Towson and Bradley that blunt the impact of the good victories and leave the resume short on a true signature win. The team can alter its standing with a handful of upcoming opportunities at home against Delaware and Missouri State and on the road at MTSU and New Mexico State along with return games against UTEP, Florida International and WKU. Because committees prize road and neutral success and punish bad losses, Liberty’s mix of quality road results and damaging defeats is what lands them in a lower seed range unless several of those remaining chances are seized.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7Col Charleston177W90-75
11/9FL Atlantic93W88-68
11/24(N)Vermont222W79-73
11/25(N)Towson172L72-69
11/26(N)Bradley137L74-64
12/6Coppin St364W92-50
12/10@NC State27L85-45
12/20@Dayton77W64-61
12/28@Florida Intl185W97-94
1/2Kennesaw159W81-73
1/4Jacksonville St235W78-69
1/8@Louisiana Tech248W72-56
1/10@Sam Houston St110W82-74
1/15New Mexico St124W73-71
1/17UTEP279W80-69
1/21@WKU169W76-69
1/24Delaware29794%
1/28@MTSU13251%
2/4@Delaware29783%
2/7Missouri St20685%
2/11@New Mexico St12449%
2/14@UTEP27980%
2/19Florida Intl18582%
2/21WKU16980%
2/26@Kennesaw15958%
2/28@Jacksonville St23572%
3/5Louisiana Tech24889%
3/7Sam Houston St11067%