NCAA Tournament March Madness

#37 Miami FL

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Projected seed: 9

Miami’s résumé is built around a pair of real positives and a stack of low-end wins that don’t move the needle, with two neutral-site setbacks tempering the upside. Beating Georgetown on a neutral floor and stealing a true road victory at Mississippi show the roster can win away from home against decent opposition, and the collection of dominant results versus low-major opponents pads the ledger. Those gains are offset by losses on neutral courts to Florida and BYU that carry extra weight, and until Miami turns some of its remaining ACC chances into signature road or neutral wins at places like Notre Dame, Clemson, Virginia and NC State or lands headliner wins at home against the likes of North Carolina, Louisville or Florida State those damaging results will keep the team in the middle tier. A couple of big outcomes in those upcoming spots would change the whole conversation because the pieces are there, but the résumé still needs those defining victories.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Jacksonville317W86-69
11/6Bethune-Cookman265W101-61
11/10Stetson346W102-61
11/16(N)Florida13L82-68
11/20Elon149W99-72
11/23Delaware St355W97-41
11/27(N)BYU10L72-62
11/28(N)Georgetown101W78-65
12/2@Mississippi57W75-66
12/6Southern Miss198W88-64
12/13ULM351W104-79
12/16Florida Intl177W98-81
12/21North Florida339W105-67
12/30Pittsburgh9081%
1/7@Wake Forest5953%
1/10Georgia Tech13490%
1/13@Notre Dame5853%
1/17@Clemson3538%
1/20Florida St10986%
1/24@Syracuse7658%
1/28Stanford9281%
1/31California7377%
2/7@Boston College15681%
2/10North Carolina2353%
2/14@NC State2633%
2/17Virginia Tech6876%
2/21@Virginia2431%
2/24@Florida St10970%
2/28Boston College15692%
3/4@SMU4041%
3/7Louisville1139%