NCAA Tournament March Madness

#252 SE Missouri St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

SE Missouri State’s résumé is built more on volume than on quality, with a brutal nonconference trip that included heavy defeats at St. Louis, Missouri and Iowa and only a modest neutral-site victory over Cal Poly to show for it. The program’s best moments are road wins at Chattanooga and Tennessee State and steady home victories over Eastern Illinois and Arkansas Little Rock, but those wins come against low-end opponents and are offset by damaging losses to Lindenwood and SIUE and a tight road setback at Morehead State that exposes inconsistency. The team has shown it can grind out conference victories, yet it has not produced a signature win away from the subpar pieces of its schedule and its defense has been exposed in the highest-profile road games. With a stretch of winnable conference outings ahead, including trips to W Illinois and Eastern Illinois and home opportunities against Morehead State and Southern Indiana, the roster can repair its standing, but without a marquee nonconference scalp the most reliable route into the NCAA field is to secure the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@St Louis24L92-67
11/7@Missouri56L89-84
11/15St Thomas MN129L84-72
11/18@Iowa21L99-70
11/25(N)Cal Poly270W84-68
11/26@Northern Arizona314L79-72
11/29Lipscomb154L88-77
12/6@Chattanooga269W74-70
12/18@Tennessee Tech335L85-74
12/20@Tennessee St236W91-82
1/1E Illinois306W68-59
1/3W Illinois358W73-50
1/8@Southern Indiana322W84-76
1/10@Morehead St300L71-69
1/15Lindenwood246L88-76
1/17SIUE259L68-55
1/20TN Martin207W66-50
1/22Ark Little Rock292W70-65
1/29@W Illinois35875%
1/31@E Illinois30653%
2/5Morehead St30072%
2/7Southern Indiana32277%
2/12@SIUE25941%
2/14@Lindenwood24638%
2/17@TN Martin20731%
2/21@Ark Little Rock29249%
2/26Tennessee St23658%
2/28Tennessee Tech33581%