NCAA Tournament March Madness

#193 New Orleans

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

New Orleans has a handful of headline moments, most notably a road victory at TCU and resume-boosting wins away at Tulane and at Stephen F. Austin that demonstrate they can win outside their building, but those highlights are offset by heavy setbacks at Houston, Texas Tech and LSU and a string of damaging losses to mid-major and conference opponents including Pepperdine, Fresno State, Memphis, McNeese State and Nicholls State, plus an ill-timed defeat at Houston Christian; those lopsided losses and splits against inferior competition leave the overall body of work short of what the selection panel typically rewards for an at-large ticket. The profile shows they have faced the high-major slate needed to make a case and picked up a few signature road victories, yet there is no sustained stretch of quality results and too many resume dents, so the clearest and most reliable path into the field is to secure the league’s automatic berth by winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@TCU43W78-74
11/10@LSU60L93-58
11/14@Tulane211W85-63
11/18@Pepperdine264L90-79
11/21@Fresno St132L85-76
11/24@Mississippi St100L81-78
11/26@Texas Tech20L82-50
12/3@Memphis134L86-70
12/6Houston Chr292L85-76
12/8Incarnate Word266W84-83
12/13@Houston5L99-57
12/29@UTRGV115W85-69
12/31@TAM C. Christi174L83-69
1/3@Northwestern LA281L74-68
1/5East Texas A&M289W83-73
1/10Nicholls St236L90-77
1/12@SE Louisiana285W79-76
1/17SF Austin91L84-79
1/19Lamar237W89-76
1/24@McNeese St68L82-63
1/27@Nicholls St236W80-62
1/31Northwestern LA281W75-64
2/2@East Texas A&M289W94-85
2/7UTRGV115L95-76
2/9TAM C. Christi174W84-78
2/14@Houston Chr292L61-60
2/16@Incarnate Word266W78-64
2/21@Lamar237W77-71
2/23@SF Austin91W77-73
2/28McNeese St68L66-63
3/2SE Louisiana285L82-78
3/8(N)Houston Chr292W73-60
3/9(N)TAM C. Christi174L74-61