NCAA Tournament March Madness

#223 Rice

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Rice's résumé simply lacks the marquee road or neutral wins the committee prizes. A rare high‑profile positive came on the road at Wichita State and solid home victories over Arkansas State and North Texas help the ledger, but they are overwhelmed by heavy road defeats at Tennessee, Pepperdine, and Tulsa and by ugly neutral‑site setbacks such as the loss at Kennesaw, which together expose defensive lapses and an inability to win away from home against stronger opposition. With the best wins modest and the worst losses damaging, the clear path into the NCAA field runs through the conference tournament and the regular season finale at UT San Antonio is the last chance to build momentum before that must‑win stretch.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Oregon100L67-63
11/11SF Austin86L81-69
11/14East Texas A&M287W71-64
11/17@Tennessee13L91-66
11/20Tarleton St212L90-74
11/24(N)Kennesaw176L89-84
11/25@FGCU240L78-63
11/26(N)Oral Roberts310W81-62
12/3Texas St244W77-72
12/13Arkansas St153W77-76
12/20@Pepperdine265L84-62
12/31@Tulsa55L97-48
1/3Memphis131L76-70
1/7@Wichita St89W66-64
1/11Charlotte185L74-73
1/14@UT San Antonio340W89-73
1/21Temple166L69-65
1/24Tulsa55L87-81
1/28@East Carolina261W83-77
1/30@Charlotte185L80-70
2/4North Texas142W86-83
2/8@UAB119L71-65
2/11FL Atlantic124W81-73
2/14East Carolina261L85-75
2/22@Tulane211L81-75
2/25South Florida54L75-56
3/1@Temple166W80-74
3/4@North Texas142L62-58
3/8UT San Antonio34087%