NCAA Tournament March Madness

#142 North Texas

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

North Texas’s profile makes sense as a team that needs the automatic route because its résumé mixes a few statement wins with too many damaging losses. A signature home victory over Memphis plus road wins at UAB and at UT San Antonio and a gritty home win over Florida Atlantic show the team can win big games and defend under pressure. The worst moments are a lopsided trip to St. Mary’s and damaging setbacks at Rice and Wichita State along with close defeats away or on neutral floors such as Santa Clara and Oregon State, and that inconsistency on the road undercuts the good wins. With the defense often carrying tight contests and the offense failing to close key road games, their clearest path to the field is to run the table in the conference tournament where wins over familiar rivals like Tulsa, Tulane or Memphis would erase doubt.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6Northwestern LA278W80-53
11/9(N)Loyola-Chicago301W64-62
11/12@Oregon St178L66-64
11/14@St Mary's CA22L80-49
11/20Cent Arkansas150W74-56
11/25E Washington163W79-71
11/30Prairie View312W72-69
12/2Houston Chr288W77-75
12/7TCU44L65-55
12/14@South Alabama206W58-57
12/17(N)Santa Clara39L63-60
12/31@Memphis131L57-48
1/4Tulsa55W72-67
1/7South Florida54L74-70
1/11@Wichita St89L78-67
1/18@Tulane211W71-63
1/21UT San Antonio340W81-62
1/23East Carolina261L63-59
1/28@Tulsa55L82-66
1/31UAB119L72-68
2/4@Rice224L86-83
2/7@UT San Antonio340W81-58
2/12Memphis131W76-69
2/15@Temple166W65-62
2/19Tulane211L77-71
2/22FL Atlantic124W73-72
2/25@Charlotte186L80-79
3/1@UAB119W62-58
3/4Rice224W62-58