NCAA Tournament March Madness

#226 Rice

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Rice has shown it can win meaningful league games, with résumé-building road victories at Wichita State and Temple and solid home wins over North Texas and Florida Atlantic, but those bright spots are offset by damaging, lopsided setbacks at Tennessee, Tulsa, Pepperdine and Oregon that raise serious questions about its ability to beat quality opponents away from home. Committee voters prize consistent road and neutral-site success and Rice’s profile is thin on that front while thick with one-sided defeats, so the clearest path to the NCAA tournament is to claim the American tournament title or to flip late conference opportunities into more indisputable road or neutral wins.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Oregon99L67-63
11/11SF Austin91L81-69
11/14East Texas A&M289W71-64
11/17@Tennessee16L91-66
11/20Tarleton St221L90-74
11/24(N)Kennesaw163L89-84
11/25@FGCU244L78-63
11/26(N)Oral Roberts309W81-62
12/3Texas St245W77-72
12/13Arkansas St151W77-76
12/20@Pepperdine264L84-62
12/31@Tulsa63L97-48
1/3Memphis134L76-70
1/7@Wichita St82W66-64
1/11Charlotte183L74-73
1/14@UT San Antonio340W89-73
1/21Temple165L69-65
1/24Tulsa63L87-81
1/28@East Carolina254W83-77
1/30@Charlotte183L80-70
2/4North Texas136W86-83
2/8@UAB127L71-65
2/11FL Atlantic129W81-73
2/14East Carolina254L85-75
2/22@Tulane211L81-75
2/25South Florida47L75-56
3/1@Temple165W80-74
3/4@North Texas136L62-58
3/8UT San Antonio340W80-71