NCAA Tournament March Madness

#126 Oakland

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Projected seed: 13 (automatic qualifier)

Oakland’s résumé reads like a team that can score but hasn’t yet done enough against top competition to earn an at-large nod, because its nonconference slate included brutal road trips to Michigan, Purdue and Houston that exposed defensive shortcomings while a competitive neutral outing against Michigan State and a tight road game at UCF showed the offense can compete. The best parts of the profile are road wins at Montana and Northern Kentucky and solid home results against Toledo and Robert Morris that prove the team can win away from home and put up points, but the heavy losses to elite programs and a road setback at Eastern Michigan leave the résumé short on the kind of signature neutral-site victories committees reward. With the rest of the Horizon schedule dominated by Wisconsin Green Bay, Wisconsin Milwaukee, IUPUI, Cleveland State, Youngstown State and Detroit the Golden Grizzlies have clear chances to clean up their profile and secure conference positioning, yet without a conference title those earlier bad losses will likely keep them on the outside looking in.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Michigan1L121-78
11/7@Purdue3L87-77
11/12@Houston7L78-45
11/17@UCF42L87-83
11/21@E Michigan190L97-91
11/24(N)Lamar204W83-68
11/25@Montana182W95-87
12/3PFW244W101-92
12/6Toledo159W98-97
12/13@Northern Iowa110L75-63
12/17@N Kentucky166W82-77
12/20(N)Michigan St12L79-70
12/29@Wright St135L88-73
1/1@Youngstown St214W85-83
1/4Robert Morris212W96-73
1/9Cleveland St333W97-74
1/11Wright St135L94-84
1/15@WI Milwaukee242W73-60
1/18@WI Green Bay22360%
1/21IUPUI33794%
1/24@Detroit28373%
1/28@PFW24464%
2/1N Kentucky16671%
2/4@Cleveland St33383%
2/12Youngstown St21478%
2/15@Robert Morris21259%
2/20WI Green Bay22379%
2/22WI Milwaukee24282%
2/25@IUPUI33784%
2/28Detroit28388%