NCAA Tournament March Madness

#365 MS Valley St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

MS Valley State’s season reads like a team that scheduled up and took a beating against high‑level opponents on the road at schools such as UAB, Kansas State, Texas A&M, Florida State, West Virginia and Oklahoma, which leaves its résumé short on the kind of neutral and road quality wins the committee rewards; its best flashes are a home victory over Texas Southern and a couple of tight games away from home, including a narrow loss at Prairie View and competitive showings at neutral sites, but those moments are overwhelmed by lopsided defeats that will stick in the committee’s mind; with the remaining games all coming at conference venues against Grambling, Arkansas–Pine Bluff, Alcorn State and Jackson State the only practical path to the field is to win the conference’s automatic spot because the nonconference body of work does not provide a margin for an at‑large case.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@UAB119L106-55
11/7@Murray St116L108-60
11/12@Hawaii110L88-56
11/14(N)Utah Tech176L81-75
11/15(N)Manhattan331L80-73
11/22@CS Bakersfield326L86-70
11/25@Texas A&M37L120-84
12/3@ULM348L66-52
12/8@Kansas St97L108-49
12/16Tarleton St215L88-64
12/19@Florida St71L96-49
12/22@West Virginia59L86-51
12/29@Oklahoma58L93-69
1/3Alabama St310L89-69
1/5Alabama A&M299L71-51
1/10@Prairie View322L70-69
1/12@TX Southern300L84-51
1/17Bethune-Cookman234L79-63
1/19Florida A&M328L62-48
1/28@Southern Univ267L80-69
1/31Ark Pine Bluff318L78-70
2/7Jackson St337L97-81
2/9Alcorn St340L74-66
2/14@Alabama A&M299L72-65
2/16@Alabama St310L92-55
2/19Prairie View322L72-62
2/21TX Southern300W72-71
2/23@Grambling2845%
2/28@Ark Pine Bluff3187%
3/3@Alcorn St34012%
3/5@Jackson St33712%