NCAA Tournament March Madness

#334 North Alabama

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

North Alabama’s profile makes the projection sensible because the best evidence on the resume comes from real road wins at San Francisco, Jacksonville State and Bellarmine, but those highlights are undercut by heavy losses at Clemson and Loyola Marymount and ugly home setbacks to North Florida and Jacksonville, so the club still lacks the kind of marquee victories that impress a committee; there are encouraging competitive showings such as the close game with ETSU but the team also folded in true road tests like Mississippi State, which leaves the overall body of work thin. The remaining slate offers clear opportunities to repair the resume with trips to FGCU, Stetson and Lipscomb and home dates against Cent Arkansas, West Georgia and Bellarmine, yet given how damaging some early losses were the most dependable way into the field runs through winning the conference’s automatic berth rather than expecting an at-large bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5@Mississippi St85L86-62
11/11Northwestern LA287W87-83
11/15ETSU134L78-74
11/17@Clemson28L81-61
11/22@Chattanooga260L71-57
12/1@Jacksonville St235W73-66
12/3@San Francisco106W65-63
12/15@Alabama A&M301L68-60
12/19@Loy Marymount155L91-57
1/1Stetson323L70-67
1/3FGCU214L72-55
1/8@E Kentucky254L88-80
1/10@Bellarmine293W82-73
1/15North Florida343L105-91
1/17Jacksonville286L90-68
1/21@Queens NC162L87-62
1/24Cent Arkansas19730%
1/29@FGCU21416%
1/31@Stetson32336%
2/4@Cent Arkansas19714%
2/7@Austin Peay16610%
2/11West Georgia33762%
2/14E Kentucky25440%
2/18Queens NC16223%
2/21@Lipscomb16010%
2/25Bellarmine29349%
2/28@West Georgia33740%