NCAA Tournament March Madness

#349 New Hampshire

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

New Hampshire needs the America East automatic berth because its résumé contains almost no resume-changing wins away from home or on neutral floors while being punctuated by several one-sided losses at established programs. The Wildcats’ clearest positives are a home victory over Boston University, narrow triumphs over Bryant and Stonehill and a road win at Maine, but those results come against opponents that will not impress the selection committee. By contrast New Hampshire was knocked around on the road at Clemson, Providence, St. Louis and Nebraska and dropped tight games at UMBC, NJIT, Dartmouth and Fairfield, which shows competitiveness but not the kind of signature road or neutral wins that produce an at-large nod. With most of its best moments coming versus conference or low-tier nonconference foes and its worst moments occurring against stronger teams away from home, the only reliable path onto the national field is by winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Clemson36L88-38
11/9@Harvard152L86-75
11/15@George Mason96L61-44
11/18@Providence71L98-66
11/26Brown290L59-47
11/30@Fairfield263L72-68
12/3@Dartmouth274L69-68
12/6Boston Univ261W88-82
12/17Stonehill334W59-58
12/21@St Louis41L93-79
12/30@Nebraska14L86-55
1/3Vermont240L80-61
1/8@NJIT332L80-76
1/10@UMBC185L75-74
1/19@Maine348W65-48
1/22Binghamton359W88-82
1/24SUNY Albany324W80-72
1/29MA Lowell321W66-61
1/31@Bryant355L92-84
2/7@Vermont240L80-57
2/12NJIT332L76-70
2/14UMBC185L85-63
2/19@MA Lowell321L78-56
2/21Maine348L61-58
2/26@Binghamton359L65-63
2/28@SUNY Albany324L84-61
3/3Bryant355W88-83
3/7@UMBC185L84-69