NCAA Tournament March Madness

#208 Marshall

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Marshall’s profile is built on a handful of resume-boosting road victories, most notably wins at Massachusetts and Toledo and a steady home triumph over WKU, but those bright spots are offset by some damaging setbacks, chief among them a brutal trip to Virginia and rough losses at home to Lipscomb and against Miami Ohio as well as repeated defeats to Georgia Southern including a neutral-site loss that undercuts their case. The team has shown it can win away from campus and grind out close games at times, yet it has also surrendered too many points in hostile environments and failed to produce signature neutral-court wins that committees prize. Because their best moments are clustered in campus settings and their worst outings are against quality opponents or on the road, their most realistic path to the tournament runs through the Sun Belt’s postseason, where a string of neutral-site victories over familiar conference foes would be the clearest way to flip a resume that otherwise looks reliant on the automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Massachusetts196W78-72
11/8@Toledo131W85-73
11/12Elon230W96-89
11/15@Virginia13L104-78
11/20Ark Pine Bluff314W98-70
11/23Mercyhurst287W69-60
11/26Lipscomb200L90-67
12/3@UNC Wilmington110L70-69
12/6@Ohio228L88-81
12/10WKU170W77-61
12/13Wright St140W76-74
12/20@Troy143L70-63
12/31Georgia St310W84-80
1/3Appalachian St195W88-81
1/7@James Madison213W66-64
1/10@Georgia St310L81-73
1/14Coastal Car247L85-83
1/17James Madison213W77-72
1/22ULM351W115-60
1/28@Texas St245L72-68
1/31@Arkansas St151W70-61
2/4Southern Miss218W81-77
2/7Miami OH93L90-74
2/11@Old Dominion248W81-79
2/14@Ga Southern235L101-87
2/16South Alabama205W84-80
2/19@Appalachian St195W94-93
2/21@Coastal Car247L79-75
2/24Old Dominion248W97-88
2/27Ga Southern235L99-82
3/8(N)Ga Southern235L82-78