NCAA Tournament March Madness

#131 Memphis

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Memphis’ profile has clear highs and troubling lows: a statement home win over Baylor and a quality road win at UAB give the resume legitimate upper-tier scalps, and a narrow neutral loss to Wake Forest shows they can hang with good teams, but those bright spots are offset by heavy defeats at Louisville and at Utah State and a string of damaging road losses inside the league that make committee voters uneasy. Nonconference tests at neutral sites against the very best and a competitive game at Mississippi showed ambition but did not translate into signature wins, and inconsistency on offense away from home has magnified the impact of those bad outings. With only a final regular season road meeting at Tulane left to try to restore some momentum and no additional marquee nonconference chances coming, the safest path onto the NCAA field for this Memphis club is to earn the conference’s automatic berth in the postseason tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8San Francisco123W76-70
11/11@Mississippi77L83-77
11/16UNLV109L92-78
11/20(N)Purdue7L80-71
11/21(N)Wake Forest76L69-68
11/26S Illinois116W74-58
12/3New Orleans184W86-70
12/6Baylor49W78-71
12/13@Louisville17L99-73
12/17Vanderbilt15L77-70
12/20@Mississippi St99L71-66
12/22Alabama St317W88-67
12/31North Texas142W57-48
1/3@Rice224W76-70
1/11@FL Atlantic124L89-78
1/14Temple166W55-53
1/18UT San Antonio339W95-69
1/21@Tulsa55L83-66
1/24@Wichita St90L74-59
1/29FL Atlantic124W92-65
2/1Tulane211L78-76
2/5@UAB119W90-80
2/8Charlotte185W77-54
2/12@North Texas142L76-69
2/14@Utah St36L99-75
2/19@South Florida54L87-66
2/22UAB119L78-67
2/26Wichita St90L88-82
3/1@East Carolina262L84-68
3/5South Florida54L96-89
3/8@Tulane21156%