NCAA Tournament March Madness

#151 N Dakota St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

North Dakota State’s resume is built on impressive road wins at Drake, CS Bakersfield and Montana and a comfortable neutral victory over Jacksonville State that prove the team can win away from home and compete in hostile settings, while home victories such as the one over Southern Illinois show it can handle midlevel challengers; those highs are counterbalanced by narrow defeats at Oregon State and UC Davis, a neutral-site loss to UC Irvine, and damaging road setbacks at Arkansas State and UTEP that expose inconsistency and make its road profile tricky to defend. The mix of meaningful neutral and true road success with several concerning away losses leaves the picture unresolved, and the upcoming conference slate — including home dates against South Dakota and North Dakota and road trips to Missouri KC, Denver, Oral Roberts and South Dakota State — supplies clear opportunities to replace blemishes with signature wins or to compound them with more disappointing results, so how the team performs in those specific venues will determine whether the resume reads like a completed case or a fragile claim.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Oregon St178L67-65
11/5@UC Davis165L80-68
11/11CS Northridge210W90-68
11/17S Illinois120W92-85
11/26(N)Jacksonville St219W56-43
11/28@Arkansas St132L85-80
12/3@Montana212W81-72
12/6Northern Arizona289W69-68
12/11@CS Bakersfield308W80-69
12/13@Drake154W99-94
12/21(N)UC Irvine131L74-73
12/22@UTEP225L76-66
12/31South Dakota28283%
1/3Oral Roberts29885%
1/8@Missouri KC33779%
1/10@NE Omaha24959%
1/14S Dakota St18468%
1/17St Thomas MN13958%
1/22@Denver26762%
1/24@Oral Roberts29869%
1/31@South Dakota28265%
2/5Denver26781%
2/7NE Omaha24978%
2/14@North Dakota32276%
2/18@S Dakota St18447%
2/21Missouri KC33792%
2/26@St Thomas MN13936%
2/28North Dakota32289%