NCAA Tournament March Madness

#348 Maine

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Maine’s profile reads like a team that can occasionally grind out a win but has not built the kind of resume that earns an at‑large invitation: its few high points — a road victory at Boston University, a gritty road win at NJIT, and a home triumph over Vermont plus competitive neutral games against Longwood and Siena — are swamped by ugly losses, including a post‑upending loss at Canisius and heavy setbacks on tough nonconference trips such as Miami Ohio and Ohio, as well as multiple league road defeats. The offense has been inconsistent while the defense has kept them competitive at times, which explains the scattershot nature of their ledger, and because they lack durable road and neutral wins versus quality opponents and carry too many bad losses to lesser teams, the only realistic route to the national tournament is to capture the conference’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@G Washington85L67-47
11/8@Stony Brook227L71-60
11/10@Rutgers124L72-60
11/16Quinnipiac219L70-64
11/19@Merrimack179L72-65
11/23Brown290L58-53
11/28@American Univ238L74-61
11/29(N)Longwood271L65-61
11/30(N)Siena192L64-60
12/3@Ohio228L79-57
12/6@Miami OH93L93-61
12/10@Boston Univ261W69-59
12/13Canisius342L70-43
12/21@Drexel222L74-56
1/3Bryant355L56-51
1/8@UMBC185L69-62
1/10@NJIT332W74-70
1/15@Vermont240L67-62
1/19New Hampshire349L65-48
1/22SUNY Albany324W52-49
1/24Binghamton359W79-63
1/31@MA Lowell321L91-77
2/5Vermont240W76-70
2/7@Bryant355L73-67
2/12UMBC185L78-62
2/14NJIT332L67-58
2/21@New Hampshire349W61-58
2/26@SUNY Albany324W70-59
2/28@Binghamton359L74-67
3/3MA Lowell321L67-56
3/7@NJIT332L60-58