NCAA Tournament March Madness

#248 Old Dominion

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Old Dominion’s profile reads like a team that can grind out league wins but lacks the signature victories and has taken too many damaging defeats to feel safe for an at-large bid, so the most realistic path to the field runs through the Sun Belt tournament. The resume includes useful road victories at Arkansas State, Georgia State and Coastal Carolina and respectable home wins against conference peers, but those positives are offset by lopsided nonconference losses at Xavier and Villanova and damaging road defeats at George Washington and Maryland that leave little room for error. The Monarchs have shown they can win away from home and pick up a neutral-site victory, yet the absence of a marquee scalp and the accumulation of bad losses mean the conference tournament is where their season must be defined.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Miami OH93L87-72
11/11Norfolk St327W60-57
11/15@G Washington85L96-73
11/18@Xavier97L99-69
11/21Morgan St353W88-56
11/23@Drexel222L75-71
11/25@Villanova33L89-75
11/30@William & Mary149L88-75
12/6@Richmond160L86-77
12/13@George Mason96L73-61
12/17James Madison213W77-68
12/20Coastal Car247L76-74
12/28@Maryland120L73-58
12/31Appalachian St195L81-73
1/3Ga Southern235L93-86
1/8@Coastal Car247W70-66
1/10@James Madison213L70-69
1/15@Ga Southern235L87-84
1/17@Appalachian St195W75-73
1/21Troy143L83-77
1/28@Arkansas St151W75-71
1/31@Texas St245L81-64
2/4ULM351L85-79
2/7Ohio228W78-72
2/11Marshall208L81-79
2/14Georgia St310W78-55
2/16Louisiana313W83-72
2/21@Southern Miss218L86-81
2/24@Marshall208L97-88
2/27@Georgia St310W81-73
3/3(N)ULM351W87-80
3/4(N)Ga Southern235L88-84