NCAA Tournament March Madness

#142 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 St179L67-65
11/5@UC Davis164L80-68
11/11CS Northridge208W90-68
11/17S Illinois121W92-85
11/26(N)Jacksonville St220W56-43
11/28@Arkansas St133L85-80
12/3@Montana212W81-72
12/6Northern Arizona284W69-68
12/11@CS Bakersfield306W80-69
12/13@Drake151W99-94
12/21(N)UC Irvine131L74-73
12/22@UTEP226L76-66
12/31South Dakota29486%
1/3Oral Roberts29987%
1/8@Missouri KC33882%
1/10@NE Omaha24961%
1/14S Dakota St18371%
1/17St Thomas MN13860%
1/22@Denver26164%
1/24@Oral Roberts29971%
1/31@South Dakota29470%
2/5Denver26182%
2/7NE Omaha24980%
2/14@North Dakota32578%
2/18@S Dakota St18349%
2/21Missouri KC33893%
2/26@St Thomas MN13838%
2/28North Dakota32591%