NCAA Tournament March Madness

#176 N Kentucky

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Northern Kentucky needing the Horizon automatic bid is straightforward given how the résumé reads: a demoralizing road collapse at Tennessee and a poor result at ETSU leave the nonconference ledger thin, and while road wins at Central Michigan and Bellarmine and a neutral victory over Green Bay are the club’s brightest moments they are not the kind of marquee wins that erase damaging road setbacks at Wright State, Detroit and Oakland or a late neutral loss that undercuts any at-large argument. Without a true signature neutral victory and with a pattern of losses away from home, the most realistic route into the big dance is to capture the conference tournament, which is the remaining opportunity that can definitively change this projection.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8@Tennessee16L95-56
11/12@ETSU167L75-63
11/20@C Michigan269W90-66
11/24E Kentucky297W82-71
11/26Wofford253W93-83
11/29Boston Univ261W74-65
12/3Cleveland St320W95-80
12/6@PFW260L79-77
12/13@Bellarmine278W80-76
12/17Oakland169L82-77
12/21Col Charleston172L85-74
12/29@Robert Morris144W79-77
1/1IUPUI317W81-72
1/4Youngstown St214W94-79
1/9@WI Milwaukee268W85-67
1/11@WI Green Bay210L80-78
1/15Detroit217W96-71
1/17Robert Morris144L92-89
1/24@Wright St140L88-80
1/30@Detroit217L90-77
2/1@Oakland169L76-65
2/4WI Green Bay210L87-84
2/7WI Milwaukee268W67-62
2/12@IUPUI317W84-81
2/18PFW260W87-71
2/22@Youngstown St214L64-58
2/25@Cleveland St320W81-70
2/28Wright St140L92-91
3/4@Oakland169W85-84
3/8(N)WI Green Bay210W96-76
3/9(N)Wright St140L103-90