NCAA Tournament March Madness

#215 Rice

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Rice's résumé is a tale of clear highs and bruising lows that explain its current standing: the comfortable neutral win over Oral Roberts and home victories against Texas State and East Texas A&M demonstrate the team can close games, but ugly trips to Oregon and Tennessee and bad-looking losses to SF Austin, Tarleton State, Kennesaw and at FGCU have already done real damage. The committee will weigh that scarcity of meaningful road and neutral success heavily, so the upcoming conference slate matters more than ever — visits to Tulsa, Wichita State and UAB and home dates with Memphis, North Texas and Temple are the kinds of opportunities that can flip perception. If Rice can convert a signature result away from home or string together quality conference wins it can repair those early blemishes, whereas continued middling results would leave those nonconference setbacks as the defining feature of the profile.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Oregon91L67-63
11/11SF Austin143L81-69
11/14East Texas A&M292W71-64
11/17@Tennessee18L91-66
11/20Tarleton St195L90-74
11/24(N)Kennesaw166L89-84
11/25@FGCU170L78-63
11/26(N)Oral Roberts295W81-62
12/3Texas St238W77-72
12/13Arkansas St14947%
12/20@Pepperdine29454%
12/31@Tulsa8011%
1/3Memphis6520%
1/7@Wichita St8913%
1/11Charlotte20158%
1/14@UT San Antonio27349%
1/21Temple16351%
1/25Tulsa8025%
1/28@East Carolina29353%
1/31@Charlotte20136%
2/4North Texas13843%
2/8@UAB10516%
2/11FL Atlantic11837%
2/14East Carolina29374%
2/22@Tulane18834%
2/25South Florida8427%
3/1@Temple16329%
3/4@North Texas13823%
3/8UT San Antonio27370%