NCAA Tournament March Madness

#65 Mississippi

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Projection: likely out

Mississippi’s résumé features eye-catching neutral-site wins over Texas and Alabama and gritty road victories at Georgia and Auburn, but those highlights are offset by damaging setbacks such as heavy home losses to Florida and LSU and nonconference defeats at Iowa and NC State and a poor trip to St. John’s, and that inconsistency is the core reason the projection is negative. The Rebels have proven they can beat quality opponents away from Oxford yet have repeatedly been undone by losses in hostile environments against Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas and by costly home defeats that selection bodies tend to punish. Until they erase those blemishes with more road or neutral wins against familiar foes like Arkansas or Alabama, their résumé will read as too uneven to trust.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3SE Louisiana285W88-58
11/7ULM351W86-65
11/11Memphis134W83-77
11/14CS Bakersfield326W82-60
11/18Austin Peay173W72-65
11/25(N)Iowa25L74-69
11/26(N)Utah126L75-74
12/2Miami FL31L75-66
12/6@St John's17L63-58
12/13(N)Southern Miss218W71-67
12/17(N)Alabama A&M307W80-66
12/21(N)NC State34L76-62
12/29Alcorn St346W79-43
1/3@Oklahoma40L86-70
1/7Arkansas15L94-87
1/10Missouri52W76-69
1/14@Georgia32W97-95
1/17@Mississippi St100W68-67
1/20Auburn38L78-66
1/24@Kentucky28L72-63
1/31@Vanderbilt12L71-68
2/3@Tennessee16L84-66
2/7@Texas37L79-68
2/11Alabama18L93-74
2/14Mississippi St100L90-78
2/18@Texas A&M39L80-77
2/21Florida4L94-75
2/25LSU60L106-99
2/28@Auburn38W85-79
3/3Vanderbilt12L89-86
3/7South Carolina95L64-61
3/11(N)Texas37W76-66
3/12(N)Georgia32W76-72
3/13(N)Alabama18W80-79
3/14(N)Arkansas15L93-90