NCAA Tournament March Madness

#318 Louisiana

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Louisiana’s standing is understandable because isolated quality results are overwhelmed by a pattern of damaging losses that will be hard for the committee to ignore. The profile includes a resume-building road win at South Alabama and useful home victories over Georgia State, Georgia Southern, ULM and Norfolk State but those bright spots are eclipsed by heavy defeats at Stanford, Santa Clara and McNeese State and other blowouts at UC Davis and Louisiana Tech that leave a lasting negative impression. The team has shown it can win important conference games yet its inability to avoid ugly losses, including a troubling home defeat to Troy, leaves almost no margin for error. With the remainder of the schedule featuring road trips to James Madison and Troy along with home opportunities against Central Michigan, Coastal Carolina, Arkansas State and Texas State those outcomes represent the only realistic path to repair the resume and change how the committee views the team.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Ball St308L75-64
11/7SE Louisiana281W58-52
11/11Tulane188L66-62
11/14@McNeese St71L88-62
11/18@Stanford80L93-66
11/21@Santa Clara41L80-43
11/24@UC Davis168L77-56
11/28Jackson St341L51-45
12/3@Lamar193L65-55
12/6UNC Wilmington113L70-63
12/13@Louisiana Tech238L65-44
12/18@Southern Miss246L62-54
12/20@ULM356W76-62
12/28Norfolk St316W63-54
12/31South Alabama211L63-58
1/3Southern Miss246L74-67
1/8ULM356W85-79
1/10Troy146L90-70
1/14@Texas St274L59-54
1/17@South Alabama211W59-56
1/22@Appalachian St181L72-58
1/29Georgia St275W82-72
1/31Ga Southern263W69-60
2/4@James Madison22519%
2/7C Michigan29254%
2/12Coastal Car23341%
2/19Arkansas St17029%
2/21Texas St27449%
2/24@Troy14610%
2/27@Arkansas St17013%