NCAA Tournament March Madness

#19 Louisville

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Projected seed: 6

Louisville's placement makes sense because the résumé mixes big, resume-building victories with ugly, resume-damaging setbacks; the Cardinals have shown they can beat top teams at home against Kentucky and on neutral courts against Baylor while also picking up resume-friendly wins away at California, in Pittsburgh, and in a tough road trip to Miami, and those signature moments create the baseline of respect. Equally important are the damaging moments that hold them back, most notably the lopsided loss in Durham and other difficult road defeats at Arkansas and Tennessee that expose inconsistency away from home. The committee will reward the marquee home and neutral wins but will temper that praise because of the one-sided setbacks, so the clearest path to moving up is more clean wins on the road and at neutral sites against league heavyweights such as Duke, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3S Carolina St356W104-45
11/6Jackson St341W106-70
11/11Kentucky28W96-88
11/15Ohio228W106-81
11/21(N)Cincinnati44W74-64
11/24E Michigan239W87-46
11/26NJIT332W104-47
12/3@Arkansas15L89-80
12/6(N)Indiana46W87-78
12/13Memphis134W99-73
12/16@Tennessee16L83-62
12/20Montana186W94-54
12/30@California73W90-70
1/2@Stanford58L80-76
1/6Duke1L84-73
1/10Boston College156W75-62
1/13Virginia13L79-70
1/17@Pittsburgh94W100-59
1/24Virginia Tech55W85-71
1/26@Duke1L83-52
1/31SMU42W88-74
2/4Notre Dame89W76-65
2/7@Wake Forest74W88-80
2/9NC State34W118-77
2/14(N)Baylor49W82-71
2/17@SMU42L95-85
2/21Georgia Tech162W87-70
2/23@North Carolina29L77-74
2/28@Clemson36L80-75
3/3Syracuse83W77-62
3/7@Miami FL31W92-89
3/11(N)SMU42W62-58
3/12(N)Miami FL31L78-73