NCAA Tournament March Madness

#228 Ohio

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Ohio’s résumé reads like a team with eye-opening moments but too many damaging setbacks, so the safest path to the tournament is through the conference auto bid. The Bobcats have shown they can win away from home with road victories at Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Buffalo and they collected a résumé-boosting neutral-site win over St. Bonaventure and useful nonconference victories over Illinois State and Marshall. Those bright spots are overwhelmed by lopsided road defeats at Saint Mary’s of California and Louisville and ugly nonconference losses at neutral sites to George Mason and Loyola Marymount plus a baffling loss to Bethune-Cookman, and the resume is further weakened by tough home setbacks to Akron and Miami of Ohio and uneven results against conference foes like Toledo and Kent. With that pattern the only reliable way forward is to string together wins in the Mid-American tournament and pick up neutral-site wins over top conference rivals to erase the damage done by bad losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Arkansas St151L89-85
11/6Illinois St103W72-68
11/11@St Mary's CA24L90-60
11/15@Louisville19L106-81
11/19Bethune-Cookman243L76-73
11/24(N)George Mason96L92-69
11/25(N)Loy Marymount161L70-58
12/3Maine348W79-57
12/6Marshall208W88-81
12/13(N)St Bonaventure139W88-83
12/20Bowling Green147L68-58
12/30@C Michigan269W80-64
1/3@E Michigan239W68-67
1/6Massachusetts196W86-83
1/10Buffalo199W91-80
1/13@Toledo131L101-85
1/16@Ball St294L76-71
1/20N Illinois333W80-77
1/23Akron64L86-65
1/27@Kent148L72-57
1/31@Buffalo199W95-83
2/3W Michigan273W91-71
2/7@Old Dominion248L78-72
2/13@Miami OH93L90-74
2/17Ball St294W69-57
2/21@N Illinois333W74-66
2/28Toledo131L79-67
3/3@Massachusetts196L94-82
3/6Miami OH93L110-108
3/12(N)Kent148L86-75