NCAA Tournament March Madness

#349 MD E Shore

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

MD E Shore’s resume forces a simple conclusion because its résumé is dominated by heavy road losses at power-conference stops such as Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Nebraska and Creighton that swamp the modest résumé gains from home wins over Morgan State, Howard and Coppin State and a neutral-site triumph over Binghamton. The club’s high points — a gritty road win at Longwood and a road victory at Norfolk State — show they can close against comparable peers, but those flashes of competence are undercut by damaging blowouts at elite venues and a parade of close finishes in league play, including narrow losses at Delaware State and NC Central and a home defeat to Norfolk State, which all expose inconsistency away from home. With virtually no quality road or neutral wins to sell to the committee and a nonconference slate that did them no favors, their realistic path into the national field runs through capturing the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Georgia Tech164L56-52
11/5@Georgia31L94-29
11/11@Nebraska12L69-50
11/14@Creighton75L84-45
11/18@Longwood271W83-82
11/21@Canisius343L60-57
11/22(N)Binghamton359W63-52
11/25Hampton272L74-68
12/2@East Carolina255L68-56
12/6@American Univ240L78-60
12/9@Virginia20L84-60
12/12@NC A&T288L82-79
12/14@Virginia Tech56L82-53
12/17@Wagner306L78-64
12/22@Texas33L94-71
1/3Morgan St352W66-49
1/10Howard202W69-57
1/12@Norfolk St321W74-70
1/17Coppin St363W70-67
1/31@Delaware St362L65-57
2/2@NC Central353L65-63
2/4@S Carolina St356L63-54
2/7@Morgan St352L79-71
2/14@Howard202L79-53
2/16Norfolk St321L70-66
2/21@Coppin St363L71-65
2/28S Carolina St356W69-57
3/2NC Central353L77-73
3/5Delaware St362L57-56
3/12(N)NC Central35354%