NCAA Tournament March Madness

#164 Oakland

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Oakland’s profile leaves little margin for error, so the team’s only secure path to the NCAA bracket runs through the Horizon tournament. The resume contains some encouraging performances, such as road wins at Montana and Northern Kentucky and solid victories over Toledo and Robert Morris along with a neutral-site win over Lamar that demonstrate the offense can produce away from home. Those positives are overshadowed by brutal road losses at Michigan, Purdue and Houston and a neutral setback to Michigan State, and conference losses to Wright State, Cleveland State and Northern Kentucky have undercut the value of league wins. With no signature victory over a high-major to erase those damaging defeats and inconsistent results in the league, the committee view implied by this profile makes an automatic qualifier the most realistic outcome.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Michigan2L121-78
11/7@Purdue7L87-77
11/12@Houston6L78-45
11/17@UCF53L87-83
11/21@E Michigan242L97-91
11/24(N)Lamar236W83-68
11/25@Montana188W95-87
12/3PFW262W101-92
12/6Toledo136W98-97
12/13@Northern Iowa76L75-63
12/17@N Kentucky177W82-77
12/20(N)Michigan St10L79-70
12/29@Wright St147L88-73
1/1@Youngstown St213W85-83
1/4Robert Morris141W96-73
1/9Cleveland St323W97-74
1/11Wright St147L94-84
1/15@WI Milwaukee269W73-60
1/18@WI Green Bay194W88-63
1/21IUPUI318L103-85
1/24@Detroit220W95-87
1/28@PFW262W74-65
2/1N Kentucky177W76-65
2/4@Cleveland St323L91-78
2/12Youngstown St213L86-82
2/15@Robert Morris141L93-69
2/20WI Green Bay194L73-68
2/22WI Milwaukee269W81-70
2/25@IUPUI318W86-74
2/28Detroit220L95-89
3/4N Kentucky177L85-84