NCAA Tournament March Madness

#284 Loyola-Chicago

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Loyola-Chicago’s resume makes the automatic route the sensible reading because a lone quality victory over Cleveland State is overwhelmed by damaging setbacks such as the loss to Mercyhurst, the road defeat at Wichita State and nonconference reversals at Colorado State and at neutral sites against Northern Iowa and San Jose State, leaving the nonconference body of work thin and short on résumé-changing wins. A handful of manageable home dates like Central Michigan and Chicago State remain but they also face a string of difficult road and neutral tests at Rhode Island, George Washington and VCU plus trips into San Francisco and Santa Clara that must turn into marquee results to alter how a selection committee would view them, so unless they seize those opportunities and stop accumulating bad losses the automatic qualifier is the realistic path.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Cleveland St299W91-88
11/6Mercyhurst320L73-65
11/9(N)North Texas113L64-62
11/13@Wichita St91L95-74
11/16Colorado St83L80-67
11/21N Illinois274L76-59
11/25(N)Northern Iowa93L72-51
11/26(N)San Jose St188L63-51
12/2C Michigan29664%
12/6Princeton24955%
12/14Chicago St35681%
12/17(N)San Francisco698%
12/20(N)Santa Clara536%
12/31@Rhode Island958%
1/3Dayton7114%
1/7Davidson12429%
1/10@G Washington624%
1/13George Mason6413%
1/16@Dayton715%
1/20@St Bonaventure11612%
1/24Duquesne12929%
1/27St Joseph's PA16440%
1/30@VCU503%
2/3La Salle23052%
2/6@Davidson12413%
2/13St Louis4910%
2/18@Fordham23331%
2/21@St Joseph's PA16421%
2/28Richmond10924%
3/4@St Louis493%
3/7G Washington6212%