NCAA Tournament March Madness

#200 Southern Miss

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Southern Miss’s résumé is defined by a handful of encouraging road and neutral performances, including a road victory at Radford and neutral-site wins over North Florida and Tennessee Martin, but it is undermined by a heavy loss at Miami, a surprising setback to Grambling, and narrow defeats on the road at Buffalo and South Carolina. The committee will notice a shortage of signature wins against strong opponents and value the team’s mixed results away from home, so the remainder of the league schedule — with road tests at LSU, Marshall and Troy, a neutral meeting with Mississippi, and a slate of winnable conference games — represents the clearest path to altering perceptions. Unless Southern Miss can add quality road or neutral victories instead of piling up damaging losses, its profile will remain thin and the conference slate will be where its fate is determined.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Buffalo204L85-79
11/9@South Carolina86L83-79
11/13@Grambling285L75-70
11/22(N)North Florida335W92-83
11/23(N)TN Martin236W70-60
12/3@Radford252W82-75
12/6@Miami FL34L88-64
12/8Grambling28574%
12/13(N)Mississippi5112%
12/18Louisiana32983%
12/20Arkansas St14950%
12/29@LSU395%
1/1@ULM35478%
1/3@Louisiana32966%
1/8Texas St23967%
1/10ULM35491%
1/14@Troy14828%
1/17@Texas St23945%
1/22@Georgia St33870%
1/24@Coastal Car21842%
1/29Appalachian St27773%
1/31James Madison18659%
2/4@Marshall15329%
2/12South Alabama17255%
2/14Troy14849%
2/21Old Dominion22065%
2/24@Arkansas St14928%
2/27@South Alabama17233%