NCAA Tournament March Madness

#211 Merrimack

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Merrimack has shown it can win away from home with victories at Princeton, Siena and Marist and it has useful home wins over Quinnipiac and Fairfield plus a neutral-site victory over La Salle, but those positives are outweighed by damaging blowouts at Auburn and at Florida and neutral-site setbacks to North Dakota State and Hofstra that leave the resume short on signature results. The schedule is light on high-major scalps so the most important remaining games are road trips to Iona and Rider and conference matchups with St Peter's, Sacred Heart and Mt St Mary's where victories would add badly needed quality. Until Merrimack converts some of those winnable league dates into road or neutral wins and avoids further lopsided defeats the committee will view them as needing the conference championship to secure an NCAA berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)S Dakota St186L75-66
11/6@Auburn33L95-57
11/11@Tarleton St172L76-62
11/15@Boston Univ291W91-79
11/19Maine351W72-65
11/21@Florida9L80-45
11/28@Penn180L77-65
11/29(N)Hofstra107L78-58
11/30(N)La Salle232W66-60
12/4Rider352W68-66
12/7Fairfield264W74-63
12/10@Princeton229W59-56
12/14@Vermont221L66-59
12/29@Sacred Heart274W80-72
1/2Mt St Mary's290W75-65
1/4Manhattan335W73-66
1/9@Siena189W63-59
1/11@St Peter's233L76-63
1/17Quinnipiac181W83-71
1/19@Marist148W68-55
1/22@Iona23042%
1/24St Peter's23364%
2/1Sacred Heart27473%
2/5@Mt St Mary's29055%
2/7@Rider35277%
2/12Marist14847%
2/15@Quinnipiac18133%
2/20Siena18956%
2/22Iona23064%
2/27@Canisius34973%
3/1@Niagara35478%