NCAA Tournament March Madness

#218 Southern Miss

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Southern Miss looks like a club that can compete but has not produced the kind of neutral or road signature win that earns an at-large invite. The team showed fight in tight road games at Buffalo and South Carolina and salvaged meaningful wins at Radford and at Louisiana while picking up home and neutral victories against lesser foes, yet a neutral-site chance against Mississippi slipped away. The resume is marred by brutal losses at Miami and at LSU and by lopsided road defeats at Troy and Coastal Carolina, so those damaging results on the road outweigh the respectable close losses. With no marquee neutral triumph to counter those blemishes the practical path into the bracket runs through the Sun Belt tournament where a run at the neutral site against familiar conference rivals would produce the automatic berth they otherwise lack.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Buffalo199L85-79
11/9@South Carolina95L83-79
11/13@Grambling298L75-70
11/22(N)North Florida335W92-83
11/23(N)TN Martin223W70-60
12/3@Radford257W82-75
12/6@Miami FL31L88-64
12/8Grambling298W68-60
12/13(N)Mississippi65L71-67
12/18Louisiana313W62-54
12/20Arkansas St151L93-86
12/29@LSU60L90-62
1/1@ULM351W87-73
1/3@Louisiana313W74-67
1/8Texas St245W80-70
1/10ULM351W70-60
1/14@Troy143L91-65
1/17@Texas St245L74-67
1/22@Georgia St310L69-62
1/24@Coastal Car247L85-67
1/29Appalachian St195L70-63
1/31James Madison213W73-65
2/4@Marshall208L81-77
2/7Kent148W66-65
2/12South Alabama205L84-78
2/14Troy143W69-65
2/21Old Dominion248W86-81
2/24@Arkansas St151L89-84
2/27@South Alabama205W68-55
3/5(N)James Madison213W86-80
3/6(N)Texas St245W81-77
3/7(N)Appalachian St195W86-73
3/8(N)Troy143L78-70