NCAA Tournament March Madness

#140 Navy

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Navy’s résumé justifies placement near the bottom of the bracket as an automatic qualifier because the team has steamrolled the Patriot League while leaving little to sell to the committee from its nonconference slate. The season’s best work came inside the league, with road wins at Colgate and Bucknell and a string of tough away performances where the defense carried the day. The worst moments are the lopsided trips to Yale and to North Carolina plus an underwhelming neutral-site result that linger on the profile and raise doubts about the club’s ability to win away from its conference comfort zone. With few marquee nonconference signatures and a soft overall strength of opponents, the clear path to the NCAA field runs through the Patriot League tournament where that defensive identity can be sharpened against familiar foes and erase the earlier blemishes.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Presbyterian278W76-55
11/7Yale82L97-68
11/11@Penn St137L80-71
11/18@North Carolina29L73-61
11/22NJIT332W86-70
11/26(N)Gardner Webb361W84-51
11/28@UNC Wilmington103L87-57
11/29(N)SE Louisiana285L69-65
12/3@Delaware St362W66-59
12/7Air Force345W61-56
12/19Coppin St363W88-55
12/31Boston Univ263W82-77
1/3@Holy Cross330W65-58
1/7Bucknell331W76-55
1/10Lafayette327W76-50
1/12@American Univ243L65-51
1/17@Lehigh295W82-79
1/21Holy Cross330W85-68
1/24Army337W84-56
1/28@Boston Univ263W58-50
1/31Loyola MD326W87-71
2/4@Lafayette327W65-50
2/7American Univ243W82-73
2/9@Bucknell331W76-60
2/14@Colgate245W84-80
2/18Lehigh295W72-49
2/21@Army337W81-63
2/25@Loyola MD326W78-51
2/28Colgate245W85-69
3/5Bucknell331W74-69