NCAA Tournament March Madness

#231 Nicholls St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Nicholls' profile makes clear that its most realistic path to the NCAA tournament runs through winning the Southland automatic bid because a nonconference slate marred by lopsided losses at power programs like Kentucky, Creighton, Murray State and Oklahoma State overwhelms the handful of useful wins such as home victories over Incarnate Word and Houston Christian and road successes at New Orleans and UTRGV. Those damaging results and an ill-timed road setback at McNeese and a tough defeat at SF Austin leave the committee with little evidence of road or neutral-site chops. The remainder of the schedule offers winnable home dates against New Orleans, TAM C. Christi, UTRGV and SE Louisiana plus critical road tests at SF Austin, McNeese, Incarnate Word and Houston Christian that represent the last clear opportunities to add meaningful wins before the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Kentucky28L77-51
11/7@E Illinois307L65-57
11/12@Valparaiso157L68-63
11/15@Murray St90L99-79
11/22@Oklahoma St68L95-81
11/28@Tulane195L82-72
12/2@Creighton53L96-76
12/6Incarnate Word243W74-67
12/17Houston Chr308W79-64
12/21@Pacific116L95-82
12/29@TAM C. Christi175W76-71
12/31@UTRGV187W71-69
1/3East Texas A&M284W80-58
1/5Northwestern LA282W74-72
1/10@New Orleans223W90-77
1/12@McNeese St66L94-68
1/17Lamar220L90-80
1/19SF Austin93L79-62
1/24@SE Louisiana263L67-61
1/26New Orleans22359%
1/27New Orleans22359%
1/31@East Texas A&M28451%
2/2@Northwestern LA28251%
2/7TAM C. Christi17550%
2/9UTRGV18752%
2/14@Incarnate Word24341%
2/16@Houston Chr30857%
2/21@SF Austin9313%
2/23@Lamar22037%
2/28SE Louisiana26368%
3/2McNeese St6620%