NCAA Tournament March Madness

#266 Lindenwood

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Lindenwood’s resume points squarely to winning the Ohio Valley tournament as its only realistic path to the NCAA field. Brutal nonconference road trips to Texas Tech, St. Louis and Indiana produced lopsided defeats that outweigh modest neutral wins such as Charleston Southern and Arkansas Little Rock and victories over lower-level opponents like Missouri Kansas City. In league play the Lions showed they can win away at Northern Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Southern Indiana and Morehead State, but they also suffered damaging home and road setbacks to key conference rivals and came up short in the neutral-site conference finale against Southeast Missouri State. That combination of heavy losses to major programs, no signature neutral or true road win and a late conference loss leaves the selection committee little to build an at-large case around, so the automatic berth is the clearest route.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Texas Tech14L98-60
11/10@St Louis31L109-66
11/14(N)Charleston So241W83-77
11/16@Alabama A&M298L74-65
11/20@Indiana41L73-53
11/24Missouri KC358W80-67
12/2@N Illinois333W99-64
12/6@E Illinois324W82-74
12/18W Illinois364W92-76
12/23@Missouri St202L70-65
1/1Morehead St275W77-64
1/3Southern Indiana339W83-80
1/6@SIUE257L66-62
1/10Ark Little Rock308L82-74
1/15@SE Missouri St230W88-76
1/17@TN Martin222L69-55
1/22Tennessee Tech313W89-68
1/24Tennessee St195L96-86
1/29@Southern Indiana339W73-60
1/31@Morehead St275W79-78
2/3SIUE257L78-72
2/5@Ark Little Rock308W79-74
2/12TN Martin222W75-74
2/14SE Missouri St230L73-61
2/19@Tennessee St195L89-80
2/21@Tennessee Tech313L72-57
2/26E Illinois324L71-67
2/28@W Illinois364W91-69
3/4(N)Ark Little Rock308W72-62
3/5(N)SE Missouri St230L68-66