NCAA Tournament March Madness

#288 Northeastern

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Northeastern looks like it will need to win the Coastal tournament to reach the NCAA field because its résumé simply does not contain a marquee victory and is burdened by damaging defeats; the road wins at Colgate and Harvard and the neutral-site triumph over Duquesne show the program can win away from Matthews, but those bright spots are overshadowed by heavy losses at William & Mary, Hofstra and Stony Brook and by troubling home setbacks to Drexel and Hofstra that expose inconsistent defense. Nonconference trips to Syracuse and Wake Forest ended in defeats instead of resume-defining statements, so the team arrives at its final stretch with work to do—an upcoming trip to William & Mary, a road date at Hampton and a closing meeting with Monmouth are opportunities to climb, but without a conference tournament run the body of work makes an at-large berth unlikely.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Boston Univ265L76-75
11/7@Colgate240W68-65
11/11@Harvard149W77-60
11/15Vermont235L85-74
11/20@Princeton259L70-57
11/22(N)Duquesne122W93-86
11/28@Wake Forest76L86-73
12/3@Holy Cross327L76-59
12/7Central Conn297W73-56
12/20@Syracuse78L91-83
12/22@Rhode Island123L85-77
12/29@Elon211L103-91
12/31@NC A&T274W85-74
1/3@Campbell200L97-82
1/8UNC Wilmington103L87-78
1/10Towson179L87-78
1/15Elon211W85-78
1/19@Monmouth NJ207L81-68
1/22Stony Brook220L95-80
1/24@Drexel224L83-78
1/31Col Charleston164L89-84
2/5@Hofstra94L80-63
2/7@Stony Brook220L69-55
2/12William & Mary132L94-67
2/19Drexel224L70-61
2/21Hofstra94L82-68
2/26@William & Mary13212%
2/28@Hampton26935%
3/3Monmouth NJ20743%