NCAA Tournament March Madness
#148 Temple
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Projection: need to automatically qualify
Temple has shown it can score and steal a headline win, with blowout victories over Delaware State and La Salle and a gritty road victory at Princeton, but those high points are offset by damaging neutral losses to UC San Diego and Rhode Island and a home setback against Boston College that expose defensive inconsistency and a lack of marquee résumés. The remaining slate offers a handful of resume-building chances, most notably a neutral clash with Michigan State and road dates at Villanova, Memphis and Wichita State, yet until those results arrive the safest path to the NCAA field is through winning the conference tournament because the current body of work does not yet include enough signature wins away from home or on neutral courts to convince a committee otherwise.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/5 | Delaware St | 362 | W83-65 |
| 11/11 | La Salle | 230 | W90-63 |
| 11/15 | Boston College | 123 | L76-71 |
| 11/19 | Hofstra | 156 | W81-76 |
| 11/24 | (N)UC San Diego | 96 | L91-76 |
| 11/25 | @Princeton | 249 | W79-75 |
| 11/26 | (N)Rhode Island | 95 | L90-75 |
| 11/28 | Michigan St | 18 | 12% |
| 12/1 | @Villanova | 41 | 9% |
| 12/14 | St Francis PA | 359 | 94% |
| 12/18 | @Davidson | 124 | 31% |
| 12/22 | Princeton | 249 | 77% |
| 12/31 | @Charlotte | 192 | 47% |
| 1/3 | UT San Antonio | 220 | 73% |
| 1/7 | East Carolina | 263 | 79% |
| 1/14 | @Memphis | 65 | 14% |
| 1/18 | FL Atlantic | 110 | 48% |
| 1/21 | @Rice | 215 | 52% |
| 1/24 | @UT San Antonio | 220 | 52% |
| 1/28 | Charlotte | 192 | 68% |
| 1/31 | South Florida | 87 | 38% |
| 2/7 | @East Carolina | 263 | 59% |
| 2/11 | @Tulane | 152 | 40% |
| 2/15 | North Texas | 113 | 49% |
| 2/18 | UAB | 99 | 42% |
| 2/21 | @Wichita St | 91 | 20% |
| 2/25 | @FL Atlantic | 110 | 27% |
| 3/1 | Rice | 215 | 73% |
| 3/4 | Tulane | 152 | 62% |
| 3/8 | @Tulsa | 84 | 19% |