NCAA Tournament March Madness

#351 ULM

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

ULM’s resume leaves the program with one clear path to the NCAA tournament, which is to win the Sun Belt tournament, because the body of work offers almost no signature wins and is littered with damaging road and neutral defeats. The nonconference slate produced costly losses at Miami, Kansas State and Mississippi and a particularly harsh setback at Marshall while a neutral-site loss to Morehead State erased what little momentum existed, and the only resume-building results are a home victory over Mississippi Valley State and a road win at Old Dominion. Conference play brought more setbacks and a string of close defeats to South Alabama, Texas State and Troy that show fight but not the kind of resume-enhancing road wins committees reward. Repeated lopsided losses, especially away from home, expose clear defensive problems and make the conference tournament the only reliable route to an NCAA berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@N Illinois334L102-82
11/7@Mississippi81L86-65
11/13@Houston Chr289L72-61
11/17Lamar239L79-66
11/22(N)Morehead St282L83-80
11/23@ETSU147L97-55
12/3MS Valley St365W66-52
12/7@SF Austin89L96-76
12/13@Miami FL29L104-79
12/17South Alabama206L96-92
12/20Louisiana313L76-62
12/28@Kansas St101L94-85
1/1Southern Miss220L87-73
1/3Texas St245L84-79
1/8@Louisiana313L85-79
1/10@Southern Miss220L70-60
1/17Georgia St309L77-57
1/22@Marshall205L115-60
1/23@Appalachian St192L59-43
1/30Ga Southern230L79-76
2/1Coastal Car247L83-79
2/4@Old Dominion248W85-79
2/7Ball St292L73-68
2/11@Arkansas St148L103-70
2/14@Texas St245L95-84
2/18Troy153L77-76
2/21Arkansas St148L102-94
2/25@South Alabama206L89-54
2/27@Troy153L80-65
3/3(N)Old Dominion248L87-80