NCAA Tournament March Madness

#319 SUNY Albany

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Albany’s profile is defined more by damage than signature victories: a string of lopsided road and neutral losses to higher-level opponents including Marquette, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and a rough trip to Columbia have left the nonconference résumé thin, with a single genuinely competitive outing on a neutral floor against Colgate standing out as the lone bright spot. That start forces all attention onto the conference slate and the handful of remaining nonconference tests; meaningful wins away from league home sites, particularly at places like Vermont and Stony Brook and in the remaining road tests at FAU and South Carolina, would carry outsized value, while taking care of business at home against conference foes such as Bryant, Binghamton, NJIT, UMBC, Maine, New Hampshire, Cornell and MA Lowell is necessary just to establish baseline competence. Because the committee will weigh road and neutral performance heavily, the combination of heavy defeats in tough environments and the scarcity of quality wins explains why Albany’s season hinges on how it performs over the rest of its schedule.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Marquette93L80-53
11/8@Massachusetts177L83-62
11/14@Rhode Island106L80-61
11/21@Siena150L73-63
11/28(N)Colgate161L69-67
11/29(N)Fordham226L88-68
12/6@Columbia129L93-65
12/10(N)Yale786%
12/13@FL Atlantic1187%
12/17@Stony Brook20519%
12/21Cornell16830%
12/30@South Carolina864%
1/3@MA Lowell31236%
1/10Bryant30557%
1/15Binghamton35576%
1/19Vermont19736%
1/22@Maine31638%
1/24@New Hampshire33645%
1/29NJIT34872%
1/31UMBC27249%
2/5@Bryant30535%
2/7MA Lowell31258%
2/14@Binghamton35555%
2/19@NJIT34850%
2/21@UMBC27228%
2/26Maine31660%
2/28New Hampshire33667%
3/3@Vermont19718%