NCAA Tournament March Madness

#197 Lipscomb

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Needing the automatic qualifier fits with what the resume actually shows: Lipscomb has a handful of resume-building moments like road wins at Marshall and Bellarmine and a pair of regular-season victories over FGCU, but those highlights are overshadowed by heavy defeats at Duke, Vanderbilt and Cincinnati and by a neutral-site loss to FGCU that exposed how brittle this profile is away from its best performances. The committee will reward the team’s ability to win tough games on the road inside its league, yet it will also be wary of the blowouts at major-conference venues and the home-and-home unevenness that leaves no marquee nonconference scalp to point to. With quality wins concentrated at the midmajor level and damaging losses in high-visibility spots, the cleanest path to the Big Dance for Lipscomb is to secure the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Vanderbilt15L105-61
11/9@Mercer180L92-77
11/11@UNC Asheville252L69-64
11/19@Belmont65L75-68
11/22W Carolina234W83-62
11/26@Marshall198W90-67
11/29@SE Missouri St227W88-77
12/3Tennessee Tech313W83-80
12/7Alabama A&M298W92-58
12/16@Duke1L97-73
12/29@Cincinnati42L89-62
1/1Jacksonville293W76-57
1/3North Florida335W82-74
1/8@Stetson303L91-83
1/10@FGCU240W84-77
1/15Bellarmine280W81-71
1/17Austin Peay164W82-78
1/22Stetson303W79-74
1/23FGCU240W86-71
1/29@Jacksonville293L70-65
1/31@North Florida335W100-94
2/4@Austin Peay164L87-76
2/7Cent Arkansas150L86-78
2/11E Kentucky294W75-61
2/14@Queens NC192L87-81
2/18@Bellarmine280W75-72
2/21North Alabama341W73-51
2/25@West Georgia304L84-78
2/28@E Kentucky294W80-77
3/6(N)FGCU240L77-53