NCAA Tournament March Madness

#182 New Mexico St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

New Mexico State’s résumé is built around a few genuine highs—a home victory over New Mexico, road wins at Delaware and Louisiana Tech, and tidy neutral-site wins against UC Irvine and Georgia State—but those highlights are offset by a string of damaging defeats. Road losses at Liberty, MTSU and WKU, a neutral setback at Tulsa, repeated losses to Florida International and a lopsided defeat at Kennesaw reveal an inability to deliver consistently away from home and leave the profile short on durable road or neutral signature wins. With quality wins clustered and bad results scattered through the slate, the clearest path to the NCAA field runs through winning the Conference USA tournament. A home finale against Kennesaw is a final chance to tidy the resume, but the committee will be looking for sustained success on the road and in neutral settings before moving this profile off the automatic-qualifier track.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/15New Mexico48W76-68
11/21Samford210W81-72
11/25(N)UC Irvine110W57-45
11/26(N)Georgia St310W77-58
12/2(N)South Alabama206L77-75
12/6@Abilene Chr238L77-69
12/13(N)Tulsa55L83-70
12/21Sam Houston St107W87-78
1/2@Florida Intl208L89-74
1/4@Missouri St202L89-82
1/8WKU148W80-64
1/10MTSU175L59-55
1/15@Liberty118L73-71
1/17@Delaware270W97-68
1/22Missouri St202L84-75
1/24Florida Intl208L81-78
1/28Delaware270L73-64
1/31@Kennesaw176L76-53
2/4@Louisiana Tech231W72-63
2/7@UTEP277L91-88
2/11Liberty118L77-75
2/14@Jacksonville St207W79-70
2/21UTEP277W67-63
2/26@WKU148L93-70
2/28@MTSU175L86-85
3/5Jacksonville St207W77-75
3/7Kennesaw17660%