NCAA Tournament March Madness

#365 MS Valley St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

MS Valley State’s profile is driven by a long string of heavy road losses at high-major and strong mid-major sites such as UAB, Murray State, Kansas State, Texas A&M, Florida State, West Virginia and Oklahoma, and those blowouts overwhelm the season’s small handful of competitive moments like neutral-site games against Utah Tech and Manhattan and a tighter outing at Cal State Bakersfield. With no signature wins to offset those downtown results and with much of the damage coming away from home, the only path to meaningful résumé repair runs through conference play. Upcoming home dates against Bethune-Cookman, Florida A&M, Arkansas–Pine Bluff, Jackson State and Alcorn State and trips to Prairie View, Texas Southern, Grambling, Southern, Alabama A&M and Alabama State represent the remaining opportunities to demonstrate the road toughness and quality wins a committee values, and failing to take advantage of those chances would leave the season defined by the difficult nonconference slate.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@UAB104L106-55
11/7@Murray St89L108-60
11/12@Hawaii96L88-56
11/14(N)Utah Tech206L81-75
11/15(N)Manhattan309L80-73
11/22@CS Bakersfield295L86-70
11/25@Texas A&M43L120-84
12/3@ULM354L66-52
12/8@Kansas St71L108-49
12/16Tarleton St162L88-64
12/19@Florida St103L96-49
12/22@West Virginia72L86-51
12/29@Oklahoma48L93-69
1/3Alabama St291L89-69
1/5Alabama A&M294L71-51
1/10@Prairie View2874%
1/12@TX Southern33910%
1/17Bethune-Cookman26811%
1/19Florida A&M34323%
1/24@Grambling2403%
1/26@Southern Univ2573%
1/31Ark Pine Bluff32018%
2/7Jackson St34425%
2/9Alcorn St34123%
2/14@Alabama A&M2945%
2/16@Alabama St2915%
2/19@Prairie View2874%
2/28@Ark Pine Bluff3207%
3/3@Alcorn St34110%
3/5@Jackson St34411%