NCAA Tournament March Madness

#246 Lindenwood

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Lindenwood’s path to the NCAA tournament runs through winning the Ohio Valley Conference tournament because the résumé offers very few quality wins and is burdened by damaging road results. The program’s best moments are a neutral-site victory over Charleston Southern and road wins at Northern Illinois, Eastern Illinois and Missouri KC but those triumphs come against low-end opposition and do little to erase blowout losses at Texas Tech, St. Louis and Indiana or the surprising setback at Alabama A&M. In-conference inconsistency including a loss at Missouri State and tough results at SIUE and Arkansas Little Rock further weaken any at-large case. Remaining home and road dates with Tennessee Tech, Tennessee State, Southern Indiana, Morehead State, SIUE, Arkansas Little Rock, Tennessee Martin, SE Missouri State, Eastern Illinois and Western Illinois give Lindenwood clear chances to improve but those are mostly middling league tests so the clearest and most realistic route into the field is to secure the automatic qualifier.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Texas Tech19L98-60
11/10@St Louis29L109-66
11/14(N)Charleston So227W83-77
11/16@Alabama A&M301L74-65
11/20@Indiana38L73-53
11/24Missouri KC346W80-67
12/2@N Illinois315W99-64
12/6@E Illinois314W82-74
12/18W Illinois355W92-76
12/23@Missouri St206L70-65
1/1Morehead St298W77-64
1/3Southern Indiana325W83-80
1/6@SIUE261L66-62
1/10Ark Little Rock292L82-74
1/15@SE Missouri St251W88-76
1/17@TN Martin205L69-55
1/22Tennessee Tech33381%
1/24Tennessee St24060%
1/29@Southern Indiana32560%
1/31@Morehead St29851%
2/3SIUE26165%
2/5@Ark Little Rock29250%
2/12TN Martin20554%
2/14SE Missouri St25162%
2/19@Tennessee St24038%
2/21@Tennessee Tech33362%
2/26E Illinois31476%
2/28@W Illinois35574%