NCAA Tournament March Madness

#160 Lipscomb

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Projected seed: 15 (automatic qualifier)

Lipscomb’s résumé balances a handful of solid midmajor victories with several damaging losses, which makes the projection sensible; the program’s best moments are a road win at Marshall, an important win away at FGCU and comfortable home results against Bellarmine and Western Carolina, but those positives are undercut by blowout defeats on the road at Duke, Vanderbilt and Cincinnati and nonconference setbacks at Mercer and Belmont. Close losses at UNC Asheville and at Stetson show the team can compete away from home but they do not erase the profile damage from the marquee road losses, so the résumé lacks the kind of signature wins that earn an at-large berth. The remaining Atlantic Sun schedule offers clear opportunities to improve with games at Jacksonville and at North Florida and a home date with FGCU along with other winnable league tests, yet unless Lipscomb accumulates more road and neutral victories its clearest path to the NCAA field runs through winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Vanderbilt15L105-61
11/9@Mercer139L92-77
11/11@UNC Asheville217L69-64
11/19@Belmont63L75-68
11/22W Carolina283W83-62
11/26@Marshall167W90-67
11/29@SE Missouri St251W88-77
12/3Tennessee Tech333W83-80
12/7Alabama A&M301W92-58
12/16@Duke3L97-73
12/29@Cincinnati54L89-62
1/1Jacksonville286W76-57
1/3North Florida343W82-74
1/8@Stetson323L91-83
1/10@FGCU214W84-77
1/15Bellarmine293W81-71
1/17Austin Peay166W82-78
1/22Stetson323W79-74
1/24FGCU21472%
1/29@Jacksonville28665%
1/31@North Florida34381%
2/5@Austin Peay16640%
2/7Cent Arkansas19769%
2/11E Kentucky25478%
2/14@Queens NC16239%
2/18@Bellarmine29367%
2/21North Alabama33490%
2/25@West Georgia33778%
2/28@E Kentucky25458%