NCAA Tournament March Madness

#324 SUNY Albany

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

SUNY Albany looks like a squad that will need the conference’s automatic berth because its nonconference slate yielded little to impress a selection body and featured lopsided road losses at Marquette, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Columbia, Florida Atlantic and South Carolina along with neutral-site setbacks to Colgate and Fordham. The club’s resume is rescued only in part by road victories at Stony Brook and NJIT and by home wins over Bryant, Binghamton and Vermont, which demonstrate it can beat league-caliber opponents but also highlight how few quality wins it has away from home. Repeated defeats at conference venues such as MA Lowell and struggles at UMBC underline the damage from poor results on the road, so the realistic path to the big dance is to seize the America East tournament and use the remaining opportunities against familiar rivals like Vermont, UMBC, New Hampshire, Maine and MA Lowell to reshape the resume.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Marquette84L80-53
11/8@Massachusetts196L83-62
11/14@Rhode Island135L80-61
11/21@Siena192L73-63
11/28(N)Colgate249L69-67
11/29(N)Fordham166L88-68
12/6@Columbia189L93-65
12/10(N)Yale81L93-82
12/13@FL Atlantic129L105-79
12/17@Stony Brook227W71-55
12/21Cornell164L83-75
12/30@South Carolina95L96-67
1/3@MA Lowell321L83-71
1/10Bryant355W71-46
1/15Binghamton359W69-53
1/19Vermont240W75-68
1/22@Maine348L52-49
1/24@New Hampshire349L80-72
1/29NJIT332L77-68
1/31UMBC185L68-65
2/5@Bryant355W65-63
2/7MA Lowell321L89-79
2/14@Binghamton359W77-74
2/19@NJIT332W81-63
2/21@UMBC185L66-62
2/26Maine348L70-59
2/28New Hampshire349W84-61
3/3@Vermont240L69-56
3/7@MA Lowell321L81-76