NCAA Tournament March Madness

#321 MA Lowell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Massachusetts Lowell’s résumé points squarely to the automatic path because the nonconference slate produced no signature scalps and included damaging blowouts on the road at Connecticut, Iowa and Wake Forest plus an unexpected home loss to New Haven that undercuts any at-large case. The team’s best moments came in league play and in neutral-ish road settings where wins at Bryant, Binghamton and Stonehill and home victories over SUNY Albany and Sacred Heart show it can beat the teams it should. The pattern of struggling away from power-conference opponents while compiling wins mostly against low- and mid-major foes leaves little room for an at-large argument. With no marquee nonconference triumph to offset those bad losses their only realistic path to the NCAA field runs through the America East tournament against familiar league opponents they have already faced this season.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Connecticut11L110-47
11/10New Haven328L73-67
11/13@Columbia189L86-72
11/16@Wake Forest74L109-75
11/19@Bradley123L87-77
11/22@St Peter's255L68-66
11/26@Stonehill334W75-64
12/6@Massachusetts196L80-60
12/13@Quinnipiac219L75-71
12/16Sacred Heart296W87-82
12/21@Boston Univ261L88-76
12/29@Iowa25L90-62
1/3SUNY Albany324W83-71
1/8@Bryant355W77-63
1/10@Binghamton359W73-68
1/15NJIT332L73-64
1/22Vermont240L77-68
1/24@UMBC185L79-56
1/29@New Hampshire349L66-61
1/31Maine348W91-77
2/5@NJIT332L81-56
2/7@SUNY Albany324W89-79
2/12Bryant355W88-69
2/19New Hampshire349W78-56
2/21Binghamton359W92-79
2/26@Vermont240L66-64
2/28UMBC185L84-60
3/3@Maine348W67-56
3/7SUNY Albany324W81-76
3/10@UMBC185L91-69