NCAA Tournament March Madness

#281 Northwestern LA

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Northwestern LA’s profile makes clear why its ticket to the field likely depends on winning the conference: there are few marquee victories and the résumé is undermined by lopsided road defeats at Texas A&M, North Texas and McNeese State that outweigh a string of gritty league wins over SE Louisiana, New Orleans, TAM C. Christi, UTRGV and Houston Christian plus a road victory at Lamar. Competitive outings at San Francisco and Grand Canyon and several tight road games show the team can compete, but repeated narrow losses to conference rivals and a neutral-site setback to Nicholls State leave little in the way of a signature nonconference scalp. With most meaningful opportunities coming against familiar league foes and a need to prove it can win away from home, the most realistic route to the tournament is claiming the automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Texas A&M39L98-68
11/6@North Texas136L80-53
11/11@North Alabama343L87-83
11/18@San Francisco121L84-64
11/21@Grand Canyon61L85-72
11/29Southern Univ279L75-73
12/5@McNeese St68L92-54
12/7@SE Louisiana285W76-68
12/13@California73L79-70
12/29Lamar237L76-61
12/31SF Austin91L74-64
1/3New Orleans193W74-68
1/5@Nicholls St236L74-72
1/10TAM C. Christi174W79-78
1/12UTRGV115W64-63
1/17@Incarnate Word266L76-74
1/19@Houston Chr292L82-80
1/27@SF Austin91L69-67
1/31@New Orleans193L75-64
2/2Nicholls St236L61-58
2/4East Texas A&M289L74-68
2/7@East Texas A&M289L52-48
2/9@Lamar237W70-68
2/14SE Louisiana285W69-66
2/16McNeese St68L75-64
2/21Houston Chr292W71-53
2/23Incarnate Word266W54-49
2/28@TAM C. Christi174L71-59
3/2@UTRGV115L74-62
3/8(N)Nicholls St236L61-47