NCAA Tournament March Madness

#170 N Kentucky

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Northern Kentucky’s profile is exactly the kind a committee views as in limbo because it pairs several resume-building road wins with some damaging home and neutral setbacks. The road victories at Central Michigan, Bellarmine and Wisconsin–Milwaukee and steady wins over Eastern Kentucky, Wofford and Cleveland State show the team can travel and control its league schedule. Those positives are undercut by the heavy loss at Tennessee and ill-timed setbacks to Oakland, College of Charleston and Robert Morris along with narrow defeats at Purdue Fort Wayne and at Green Bay that leave the resume without a true marquee neutral triumph. With multiple winnable conference dates coming at Wright State and Oakland and at home against Green Bay and Milwaukee plus a rematch with Cleveland State, the remaining stretch offers clear chances to solidify the at-large case or to make the automatic bid the only safe path.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Tennessee23L95-56
11/12@ETSU134L75-63
11/20@C Michigan322W90-66
11/24E Kentucky254W82-71
11/26Wofford223W93-83
11/29Boston Univ291W74-65
12/3Cleveland St320W95-80
12/6@PFW224L79-77
12/13@Bellarmine293W80-76
12/17Oakland129L82-77
12/21Col Charleston177L85-74
12/29@Robert Morris198W79-77
1/1IUPUI317W81-72
1/4Youngstown St211W94-79
1/9@WI Milwaukee249W85-67
1/11@WI Green Bay238L80-78
1/15Detroit285W96-71
1/17Robert Morris198L92-89
1/24@Wright St14633%
1/30@Detroit28562%
2/1@Oakland12930%
2/4WI Green Bay23873%
2/7WI Milwaukee24975%
2/12@IUPUI31771%
2/18PFW22471%
2/21@Youngstown St21148%
2/22@Youngstown St21148%
2/25@Cleveland St32072%
2/28Wright St14655%