NCAA Tournament March Madness

#343 North Alabama

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

North Alabama's profile leaves little room for an at-large case because its most notable results are mid-major road wins at San Francisco, Jacksonville State and Bellarmine that are offset by heavy losses at Mississippi State and Clemson and a string of damaging conference setbacks, including home defeats to North Florida and Jacksonville and road losses at Chattanooga and Queens. Road and neutral success is uneven beyond those select victories and the nonconference slate contains enough poor results to make the committee skeptical about resume strength. The remaining schedule offers chances to repair the profile with home dates against Eastern Kentucky and Bellarmine, another meeting with Eastern Kentucky, a trip to Lipscomb and a season finale at West Georgia, but none of those matchups is a guaranteed signature opportunity. Given the quality of the bad losses, the scarcity of marquee wins and the uphill nature of the remaining opportunities, the clearest path to the NCAA tournament for North Alabama is to capture the conference's automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5@Mississippi St86L86-62
11/11Northwestern LA283W87-83
11/15ETSU140L78-74
11/17@Clemson33L81-61
11/22@Chattanooga302L71-57
12/1@Jacksonville St210W73-66
12/3@San Francisco130W65-63
12/15@Alabama A&M309L68-60
12/19@Loy Marymount152L91-57
1/1Stetson324L70-67
1/3FGCU245L72-55
1/8@E Kentucky271L88-80
1/10@Bellarmine273W82-73
1/15North Florida337L105-91
1/17Jacksonville310L90-68
1/21@Queens NC204L87-62
1/29@FGCU245L72-64
1/31@Stetson324W68-66
2/4@Cent Arkansas163L81-60
2/7@Austin Peay141L91-62
2/9Cent Arkansas163L72-65
2/11West Georgia321L82-73
2/15E Kentucky27137%
2/18Queens NC20423%
2/21@Lipscomb1738%
2/25Bellarmine27338%
2/28@West Georgia32129%