NCAA Tournament March Madness

#132 MTSU

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

MTSU looks like a team that will need the automatic bid because its resume mixes a couple of resume-building moments with too many damaging losses away from home and at neutral sites. The program has shown it can rise to the occasion with a neutral-site win over Murray State and a gritty road victory at New Mexico State, but those highlights are offset by a lopsided loss at Michigan, a road setback at Houston and ugly home and neutral defeats to Belmont, George Washington and McNeese State that leave the profile thin on signature wins. A selection panel will notice the inconsistency away from its own building and the lack of multiple high-end victories, so the remaining slate against conference opponents such as Liberty, WKU, UTEP, Florida International and Delaware is the practical path to erase the blemishes and change a borderline résumé into a comfortably at-large one.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/12@Evansville289W77-72
11/19@Michigan1L86-61
11/23(N)Murray St91W90-87
11/24(N)G Washington74L92-79
11/25(N)McNeese St66L72-62
12/1UAB119W76-61
12/7Belmont63L83-62
12/17Kennesaw159W68-67
12/29@Houston4L69-60
1/2Louisiana Tech248W88-51
1/4Sam Houston St110W68-67
1/8@UTEP279L83-80
1/10@New Mexico St124W59-55
1/14@Louisiana Tech248L59-58
1/17Missouri St206W90-87
1/24@Jacksonville St23561%
1/28Liberty9449%
1/31WKU16970%
2/4Florida Intl18573%
2/7@Delaware29774%
2/12@Kennesaw15946%
2/14@WKU16948%
2/18@Sam Houston St11033%
2/21Delaware29788%
2/26UTEP27986%
2/28New Mexico St12459%
3/5@Florida Intl18552%
3/7@Missouri St20656%