NCAA Tournament March Madness

#217 Tarleton St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Tarleton profiles as a team that will need to earn its conference's automatic bid to reach the NCAA tournament because its nonconference slate included true road tests at SMU, LSU, Baylor and Cincinnati that produced no signature victories, even though the program did pick up resume-helping road wins at Rice and Southern Utah and home wins over Cal Baptist, Abilene Christian and Southern Utah. The damage comes from a string of conference setbacks, highlighted by multiple defeats to Utah Valley, mixed results with Cal Baptist and an inability to demonstrate consistent success away from campus. With a handful of solid midlevel wins but too many damaging losses on the ledger, the clear path to the field runs through winning the conference tournament rather than through an at-large case.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@SMU42L96-76
11/5@LSU63L96-60
11/8TAM C. Christi172W85-77
11/11Merrimack178W76-62
11/14@Baylor48L94-81
11/20@Rice226W90-74
12/1@Cincinnati43L76-58
12/16@MS Valley St365W88-64
12/19Florida A&M316W78-54
12/29@UT Arlington155W69-63
1/1Utah Valley89L91-85
1/3Cal Baptist112W81-76
1/8Abilene Chr246L84-80
1/15@Southern Utah251L106-105
1/17@Utah Tech185L75-71
1/21@UT Arlington155L71-64
1/29Utah Valley89L83-55
1/31Utah Tech185L65-59
2/5@Cal Baptist112L56-55
2/7@Southern Utah251W62-59
2/14@Abilene Chr246L73-59
2/16Abilene Chr246W65-62
2/19Southern Utah251W78-74
2/21Utah Tech185L80-72
2/26@Utah Valley89L79-72
2/28@Cal Baptist112L82-67
3/5UT Arlington155L65-60
3/11(N)Abilene Chr24657%