NCAA Tournament March Madness

#161 Loy Marymount

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Loyola Marymount has shown it can win away from home with victories at UC Santa Barbara, San Francisco and San Diego and an eye‑catching win over Washington State, but that resume is undone by a lopsided defeat at Gonzaga, heavy losses to Santa Clara and damaging setbacks at Pacific, Pepperdine and Seattle that a committee would treat as bad losses. Most nonconference wins came against low‑major opposition, so there is no signature scalp to offset the blemishes, and the team’s inconsistency in true road and neutral sites undercuts any at‑large case. With the ceiling of the résumé defined by a handful of respectable road results rather than a body of marquee victories, the straightforward path onto the bracket is to secure the West Coast Conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5E Washington171W70-62
11/8Ark Pine Bluff314W94-72
11/11@UTEP276W71-58
11/14Troy143W74-63
11/17@UC Santa Barbara130W78-74
11/24(N)FL Atlantic129L76-65
11/25(N)Ohio228W70-58
11/28Stony Brook227L71-68
12/2St Louis41L91-70
12/16UC San Diego118L67-57
12/19North Alabama343W91-57
12/23Morgan St353W83-56
12/28St Mary's CA24L78-73
12/30Pacific112W80-71
1/2@Washington St137L78-76
1/4@Gonzaga10L82-47
1/8San Francisco121W84-82
1/10@Santa Clara35L103-72
1/14@Oregon St177L76-70
1/17Portland202L71-58
1/21@Seattle119L69-59
1/28Oregon St177L72-69
1/31Santa Clara35L104-73
2/4@San Francisco121W84-75
2/7San Diego224W83-63
2/11@Pacific112L65-59
2/14@Pepperdine264L90-89
2/21@San Diego224W77-65
2/25Washington St137W67-66
2/28Seattle119L71-66
3/5(N)San Diego224L66-62