NCAA Tournament March Madness

#231 Louisiana Tech

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Louisiana Tech’s profile reads like a team with clear upside but not enough résumé polish to feel safe without a conference tournament title. The Bulldogs have shown they can win meaningful games away from home with road victories at Liberty and Missouri State and they’ve won tight conference contests at home, yet those bright spots are outweighed by damaging losses on the road at Nevada and Middle Tennessee and by dropping both meetings with Florida International. Inconsistency is the theme they’ll be judged on—splitting with Indiana State and Sam Houston State and erasing an earlier home loss to Liberty with a later road win shows resiliency but not sustained quality. With a final road test at Delaware available to add an eye-catching result, the committee will be weighing the scarcity of signature wins against the number and severity of bad losses, which makes the team’s most realistic route to the tournament run through winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Nevada74L77-50
11/15Jackson St342W68-51
11/19@Indiana St201L60-51
11/26Indiana St201W75-73
11/29Alcorn St352W83-58
12/3@Ga Southern250L77-69
12/13Louisiana315W65-44
12/17@Tulane211L61-53
12/29UTEP277W75-63
1/2@MTSU175L88-51
1/4@WKU148L66-61
1/8Liberty118L72-56
1/10Delaware270W70-68
1/14MTSU175W59-58
1/17@Jacksonville St207L64-60
1/23Kennesaw176W82-76
1/28@UTEP277W69-59
1/31@Sam Houston St107L83-67
2/4New Mexico St182L72-63
2/7Sam Houston St107W87-78
2/12@Missouri St202W79-78
2/14@Florida Intl208L77-64
2/18Jacksonville St207W77-71
2/21@Kennesaw176L58-55
2/26Missouri St202W72-70
2/28Florida Intl208L84-76
3/5@Liberty118W76-71
3/7@Delaware27047%