NCAA Tournament March Madness

#301 Northern Arizona

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Northern Arizona’s résumé is built around modest conference victories like Cal Poly, Northern Colorado and Eastern Washington and a gritty road win at Idaho State, but those moments are overwhelmed by ugly losses at Arizona, Arizona State and San Diego and by heavy defeats to Montana and Incarnate Word. The team has shown almost no resume-enhancing success away from home or at neutral sites beyond a tight neutral loss to Drake, so the absence of a signature high-quality win combined with several damaging setbacks leaves little hope for an at-large case. With key conference opportunities still to come at Idaho and Eastern Washington and a regular season date with Montana State, the surest path to the NCAA tournament is taking the conference’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)Drake203L77-71
11/11@Arizona3L84-49
11/24Cal Poly212W93-87
11/26SE Missouri St226W79-72
12/3S Dakota St214L75-62
12/6@N Dakota St117L69-68
12/9@Arizona St63L73-48
12/13@San Diego225L78-69
12/18Southern Utah263W65-57
12/21@Incarnate Word270L90-66
1/1@Montana184L78-64
1/3@Montana St146L77-68
1/8Weber St195L78-65
1/10Idaho St230L81-79
1/15@CS Sacramento257L83-69
1/17@Portland St143L63-52
1/19Montana184L98-72
1/24N Colorado151W81-77
1/29E Washington172W92-86
1/31Idaho177L79-62
2/5@Idaho St230W79-73
2/7@Weber St195L72-53
2/12Portland St143L77-68
2/14CS Sacramento257W79-74
2/21@N Colorado151L78-77
2/26@Idaho17716%
2/28@E Washington17215%
3/2Montana St14628%