NCAA Tournament March Madness

#241 Southern Miss

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Southern Miss looks like a team that will have to win the conference tournament to reach the NCAA field because its resume lacks signature victories and is marred by damaging road and neutral defeats. Competitive losses at Buffalo and South Carolina show they can compete but they could not convert those chances into marquee wins while heavy defeats at Miami and LSU and the setback at Troy are the kind of blemishes committees remember. Most of the résumé is built on wins over lower-tier opponents and neutral-site results that do little to offset those bad losses, and the team has not demonstrated consistent success away from home. The remaining regular-season opportunities against conference foes and the tournament itself give Southern Miss a clear path to improve, but without a conference title their body of work does not contain the high-end wins and road/neutral résumé strength that earns at-large consideration.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Buffalo188L85-79
11/9@South Carolina98L83-79
11/13@Grambling276L75-70
11/22(N)North Florida337W92-83
11/23(N)TN Martin197W70-60
12/3@Radford236W82-75
12/6@Miami FL37L88-64
12/8Grambling276W68-60
12/13(N)Mississippi73L71-67
12/18Louisiana306W62-54
12/20Arkansas St148L93-86
12/29@LSU55L90-62
1/1@ULM354W87-73
1/3@Louisiana306W74-67
1/8Texas St245W80-70
1/10ULM354W70-60
1/14@Troy138L91-65
1/17@Texas St245L74-67
1/22@Georgia St293L69-62
1/24@Coastal Car232L85-67
1/29Appalachian St175L70-63
1/31James Madison223W73-65
2/4@Marshall170L81-77
2/7Kent146W66-65
2/12South Alabama194L84-78
2/14Troy13839%
2/21Old Dominion24361%
2/24@Arkansas St14822%
2/27@South Alabama19429%