NCAA Tournament March Madness

#335 NJIT

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

NJIT’s résumé makes clear why its most realistic path to the NCAA tournament runs through the America East crown: the season features a handful of resume-boosting moments, including a road win at Fordham, a gritty victory at Loyola Maryland and solid nonconference home results against Dickinson, New Haven and Bryant, but those positives are overwhelmed by brutal road blowouts at Louisville, Butler and Cincinnati and heavy defeats at Drexel and Penn that leave the profile without a signature neutral-site or true road win over a high-level opponent. Committee voters will see limited evidence that NJIT can survive on an at-large basis, so the remaining slate — trips to Vermont, SUNY Albany, New Hampshire and Maine, home dates with MA Lowell, Binghamton, SUNY Albany and Vermont and late-season road tests at Bryant and UMBC — represent the only realistic opportunities to rack up the kind of wins and road credentials that would change that view. Until the Highlanders convert some of those conference chances into eye-catching victories and enter the conference tournament with clear momentum, winning the America East tournament is the clearest route to the field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Fordham201W72-61
11/8Fairfield271L74-53
11/11@Loyola MD329W66-64
11/15F Dickinson341W93-81
11/18@Drexel211L75-43
11/22@Navy181L86-70
11/24@Cincinnati59L94-67
11/26@Louisville18L104-47
11/28@E Michigan192L73-55
12/5@High Point95L89-72
12/10New Haven338W70-64
12/13Sacred Heart289L65-49
12/22@Butler55L101-52
12/31@Penn194L80-61
1/3@Binghamton362W73-65
1/8New Hampshire315W80-76
1/10Maine345L74-70
1/15@MA Lowell319W73-64
1/19Bryant349W79-55
1/22@UMBC257L87-74
1/29@SUNY Albany30330%
1/31@Vermont21014%
2/5MA Lowell31956%
2/7Binghamton36281%
2/12@New Hampshire31533%
2/14@Maine34544%
2/19SUNY Albany30351%
2/21Vermont21031%
2/28@Bryant34946%
3/3UMBC25740%