NCAA Tournament March Madness

#196 Massachusetts

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Massachusetts presents a classic high-ceiling, low-floor tournament profile because its best moments — neutral-site wins over Florida State and Oregon State, a road victory at Boston College and a home win over Harvard — prove it can beat quality opponents away from its own building, but those scalps are offset by damaging road defeats at Akron, Ohio, Ball State and Bowling Green and troubling home setbacks to Buffalo, Kent and an early nonconference loss to Marshall. The team has shown it can win in hostile environments yet it has also dropped games it needed to hold, and that inconsistency makes the safest path to the NCAA field run through winning the Mid-American Conference tournament rather than relying on an at-large case.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Marshall208L78-72
11/8SUNY Albany324W83-62
11/13Le Moyne299W94-80
11/16Central Conn306W84-77
11/21(N)Col Charleston172L69-65
11/22(N)WI Green Bay210L79-75
11/24(N)Oregon St177W73-65
12/3Harvard152W78-71
12/6MA Lowell321W80-60
12/10(N)Boston College156W76-74
12/13(N)Florida St56W103-95
12/20Kent148L69-59
12/30@E Michigan239L80-74
1/3Bowling Green147L101-100
1/6@Ohio228L86-83
1/10Ball St294W79-71
1/13@W Michigan273W85-82
1/17@N Illinois333L70-68
1/20Toledo131W84-82
1/23@Buffalo199W68-67
1/27@Miami OH93L86-84
1/31E Michigan239W70-67
2/3C Michigan269W95-89
2/7@Coastal Car247L94-91
2/13@Akron64L99-92
2/17Miami OH93L86-77
2/21Buffalo199L86-82
2/24@Ball St294L74-73
2/28@Bowling Green147L81-62
3/3Ohio228W94-82
3/12(N)Miami OH93W87-83
3/13(N)Toledo131L77-67