NCAA Tournament March Madness

#304 NJIT

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

NJIT profiles like a team that will have to lean on the conference automatic berth because its nonconference résumé pairs credible road victories at Fordham, Loyola Maryland and Vermont with a string of lopsided losses on the road and at neutral sites against programs such as Louisville, Butler, Cincinnati and Drexel, and those bad showings remove the cushion an at-large case requires. The resume’s best moments — winning away at Vermont and at MA Lowell and locking down conference home wins — show the program can close league games and win out of its building, but the severe defeats away from campus leave little margin for error. With the regular season finishing against SUNY Albany at home, a home date with Vermont, a trip to Bryant and a road test at UMBC, NJIT has clear, definable chances to secure its fate; failure to take care of those opportunities would leave the team dependent on winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Fordham160W72-61
11/8Fairfield265L74-53
11/11@Loyola MD314W66-64
11/15F Dickinson329W93-81
11/18@Drexel228L75-43
11/22@Navy156L86-70
11/24@Cincinnati51L94-67
11/26@Louisville14L104-47
11/28@E Michigan230L73-55
12/5@High Point90L89-72
12/10New Haven333W70-64
12/13Sacred Heart295L65-49
12/22@Butler83L101-52
12/31@Penn174L80-61
1/3@Binghamton362W73-65
1/8New Hampshire336W80-76
1/10Maine349L74-70
1/15@MA Lowell318W73-64
1/19Bryant355W79-55
1/22@UMBC236L87-74
1/29@SUNY Albany325W77-68
1/31@Vermont223W79-77
2/5MA Lowell318W81-56
2/7Binghamton362W73-64
2/12@New Hampshire336W76-70
2/14@Maine349W67-58
2/19SUNY Albany32568%
2/21Vermont22343%
2/28@Bryant35563%
3/3UMBC23645%