NCAA Tournament March Madness

#142 Navy

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Navy’s résumé reads like a team that dominated its league schedule but never quite proved itself outside of it, with signature road wins at Colgate and Bucknell and a convincing neutral-site victory over Gardner-Webb showcasing the road toughness that committees value. Those highs are offset by damaging nonconference setbacks, most notably a heavy loss to Yale and one-sided defeats at North Carolina and at UNC Wilmington that expose how the team fares against stronger opposition and leave the nonleague résumé thin. The bulk of the victories came against lower-tier opponents while steady defensive performances in Patriot League games against Holy Cross, Army, Loyola Maryland and Lehigh locked up conference standing. With few quality nonconference scalps to point to, the clearest path to the national field runs through the conference tournament where the team will need to replicate its road success and defensive identity to secure an invite.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Presbyterian270W76-55
11/7Yale81L97-68
11/11@Penn St138L80-71
11/18@North Carolina29L73-61
11/22NJIT332W86-70
11/26(N)Gardner Webb361W84-51
11/28@UNC Wilmington110L87-57
11/29(N)SE Louisiana285L69-65
12/3@Delaware St362W66-59
12/7Air Force345W61-56
12/19Coppin St363W88-55
12/31Boston Univ261W82-77
1/3@Holy Cross329W65-58
1/7Bucknell331W76-55
1/10Lafayette325W76-50
1/12@American Univ238L65-51
1/17@Lehigh284W82-79
1/21Holy Cross329W85-68
1/24Army337W84-56
1/28@Boston Univ261W58-50
1/31Loyola MD322W87-71
2/4@Lafayette325W65-50
2/7American Univ238W82-73
2/9@Bucknell331W76-60
2/14@Colgate249W84-80
2/18Lehigh284W72-49
2/21@Army337W81-63
2/25@Loyola MD322W78-51
2/28Colgate249W85-69
3/5Bucknell331W74-69
3/8Boston Univ261L73-72