NCAA Tournament March Madness

#293 Loyola-Chicago

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Loyola-Chicago sits outside the at-large mix and needs the automatic berth because its résumé offers limited encouraging moments — a neutral-site win over Santa Clara, a road victory at Rhode Island and respectable home wins over Richmond and George Washington — but those are overwhelmed by damaging results such as a blowout loss at George Washington, heavy road defeats at Dayton and St. Louis and nonconference setbacks to Mercyhurst and Chicago State. With few signature wins and multiple bad losses away from home the committee will view the body of work skeptically, so the practical path to the NCAA field is a deep run in the conference tournament that requires beating established league foes on neutral courts.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Cleveland St322W91-88
11/6Mercyhurst284L73-65
11/9(N)North Texas140L64-62
11/13@Wichita St88L95-74
11/16Colorado St85L80-67
11/21N Illinois334L76-59
11/25(N)Northern Iowa70L72-51
11/26(N)San Jose St237L63-51
12/2C Michigan270W83-72
12/6Princeton251W73-68
12/14Chicago St345L84-75
12/17(N)San Francisco119L85-71
12/20(N)Santa Clara37W80-78
12/31@Rhode Island134W61-57
1/3Dayton79L70-68
1/7Davidson107L79-64
1/10@G Washington83L101-66
1/13George Mason94L82-74
1/16@Dayton79L78-51
1/20@St Bonaventure160L84-70
1/24Duquesne133L71-59
1/27St Joseph's PA121L85-64
1/30@VCU45L89-75
2/3La Salle225W71-61
2/6@Davidson107L84-64
2/13St Louis40L86-59
2/18@Fordham168L62-59
2/21@St Joseph's PA121L75-61
2/28Richmond143W69-66
3/4@St Louis40L79-65
3/7G Washington83W68-62