NCAA Tournament March Madness

#303 MA Lowell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Lowell’s season reads like a bruising nonconference gauntlet followed by steady but unspectacular work inside the America East, and that combination explains why the projection says they will need the automatic bid; the team has suffered demoralizing defeats on the road against Connecticut and Iowa and struggled in other high‑profile away games at Wake Forest, Columbia and Massachusetts, while its best résumé moments are confined to conference wins such as road victories at Bryant and Binghamton and home wins over Sacred Heart and Albany that prove competence in league play but do little to counter the damage from those bad losses or to demonstrate wins against strong, neutral‑site opponents; the remaining schedule provides multiple manageable matchups at Maine, New Hampshire and Bryant and a couple of tougher road tests at Vermont and UMBC that are opportunities to shore up the record, yet they do not create the kind of signature, resume‑saving victories that would free Lowell from having to earn its way in by winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Connecticut11L110-47
11/10New Haven336L73-67
11/13@Columbia167L86-72
11/16@Wake Forest61L109-75
11/19@Bradley132L87-77
11/22@St Peter's233L68-66
11/26@Stonehill342W75-64
12/6@Massachusetts185L80-60
12/13@Quinnipiac181L75-71
12/16Sacred Heart274W87-82
12/21@Boston Univ291L88-76
12/29@Iowa18L90-62
1/3SUNY Albany294W83-71
1/8@Bryant348W77-63
1/10@Binghamton362W73-68
1/15NJIT332L73-64
1/22Vermont22143%
1/24@UMBC27533%
1/29@New Hampshire31744%
1/31@Maine35158%
2/5@NJIT33248%
2/7@SUNY Albany29438%
2/12Bryant34876%
2/19New Hampshire31766%
2/21Binghamton36287%
2/26@Vermont22123%
2/28UMBC27555%
3/3@Maine35158%