NCAA Tournament March Madness

#198 Robert Morris

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Robert Morris needs the Horizon automatic bid because its résumé has flashes but no truly convincing signature win and it carries a couple of damaging road blowouts that will loom large with the committee. The trip to Drake stands out as a gritty road victory and the home wins over Illinois Chicago and Toledo help the profile, yet the heavy loss at Iowa and the tough defeat at Oakland underline how thin the nonconference résumé is. League play has been uneven with a resilient win at Green Bay offset by a road setback at Milwaukee and a split with Northern Kentucky, so the most meaningful way to erase doubts is to pile up quality wins away from home, and those chances are still on the schedule with home dates against Milwaukee and Detroit and a road swing to Cleveland State. Because committees prize road and neutral success and penalize lopsided losses, the cleanest path for Robert Morris to reach the field runs through the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Iowa20L101-69
11/6@Drake164W81-79
11/20@St Bonaventure145L75-61
11/23@Monmouth NJ213L71-70
11/26IL Chicago150W88-74
11/28Southern Utah281W61-54
11/30Stetson323W80-62
12/4@WI Green Bay238W80-78
12/6@WI Milwaukee249L74-72
12/13Toledo161W75-70
12/17Youngstown St211W80-77
12/20@St Francis PA357W79-70
12/29N Kentucky170L79-77
1/2@Detroit285W85-77
1/4@Oakland129L96-73
1/11PFW224L79-74
1/15@IUPUI317L96-93
1/17@N Kentucky170W92-89
1/22WI Milwaukee24970%
1/24WI Green Bay23868%
1/28IUPUI31783%
1/31@PFW22443%
2/4Wright St14649%
2/7@Youngstown St21141%
2/12@Cleveland St32066%
2/15Oakland12945%
2/22@Wright St14628%
2/25Detroit28576%
2/28Cleveland St32084%