NCAA Tournament March Madness

#228 Stony Brook

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Stony Brook’s profile points to an automatic-qualifier road because its best moments are solid but sparse — the standout home victory over College of Charleston and true road wins at Loyola Marymount and Northeastern show the ceiling — while its case is undercut by a neutral drubbing at Pacific and ugly road showings at Yale and Drexel plus damaging home defeats such as the loss to SUNY Albany and late-season slips against Monmouth and Towson. The resume is split between impressive home work against Hofstra and a home rebound against Drexel and stretches when the offense evaporated away from Islander Court, so there is not enough quality across road and neutral sites to justify an at-large narrative. The only realistic way to erase the blemishes is to pile up resume-changing wins away from home or at neutral sites against familiar Coastal foes and then run through the conference bracket, which would turn the profile’s best moments into a tournament-worthy resume and wipe away the bad losses that now loom largest.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8Maine347W71-60
11/15@Yale82L86-79
11/20Brown290W80-70
11/24(N)Pacific113L86-58
11/25(N)Bethune-Cookman235W61-54
11/28@Loy Marymount158W71-68
12/6@Duquesne132L84-75
12/9Columbia190W77-73
12/13C Michigan271W78-55
12/17SUNY Albany325L71-55
12/21@Marist204L70-51
12/29@Hampton272L62-59
12/31@William & Mary135L76-57
1/3NC A&T289W81-80
1/8@Drexel219L56-37
1/10UNC Wilmington102L75-71
1/15Hofstra92W76-71
1/17Col Charleston151W112-106
1/22@Northeastern284W95-80
1/29@Campbell189W81-69
1/31@Elon226W72-68
2/5Monmouth NJ187L76-75
2/7Northeastern284W69-55
2/12@Towson174L69-57
2/16Drexel219W72-69
2/21Hampton272W79-72
2/26@Monmouth NJ187L82-69
2/28@Hofstra92L67-58
3/3Towson174L69-57
3/7(N)Campbell18942%