NCAA Tournament March Madness

#29 St Louis

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Projected seed: 8 (automatic qualifier)

This projection is sensible because St. Louis pairs a handful of eye-catching results away from home with a nonconference ledger packed with low-value blowouts. Road wins at VCU and La Salle and a neutral-site victory over Santa Clara prove the team can win in hostile and neutral settings, while a narrow neutral loss to Stanford is a blemish that still comes better than a bad loss. The early slate is weighted toward easy opponents like Chicago State, Lindenwood and Bethune-Cookman, so the résumé lacks high-end wins, but upcoming road tests at St. Bonaventure, Davidson and George Mason and home chances against Dayton and VCU offer clear opportunities to upgrade the profile; if St. Louis takes care of those chances the current placement holds up, if it stumbles away from home the soft nonconference body of work will be what committees remember.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3SE Missouri St251W92-67
11/6Chicago St356W108-86
11/10Lindenwood246W109-66
11/15Grand Canyon82W78-64
11/21PFW224W91-60
11/27(N)Santa Clara43W71-70
11/28(N)Stanford76L78-77
12/2@Loy Marymount155W91-70
12/7C Michigan322W107-65
12/13San Francisco106W85-75
12/17Bethune-Cookman264W112-53
12/21New Hampshire319W93-79
12/31St Joseph's PA173W102-79
1/7@VCU49W71-62
1/10@La Salle219W84-72
1/14Fordham200W78-56
1/17Richmond116W88-63
1/20@Duquesne128W81-77
1/23@St Bonaventure14581%
1/27G Washington7480%
1/30Dayton7781%
2/3@Davidson13179%
2/7La Salle21997%
2/13@Loyola-Chicago30996%
2/17@Rhode Island11174%
2/20VCU4972%
2/24@Dayton7762%
2/28Duquesne12891%
3/4Loyola-Chicago30999%
3/7@George Mason7361%