NCAA Tournament March Madness

#264 UTEP

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UTEP’s résumé reads like a team that can win tight games at home and scrape out rugged road victories against middling opponents such as New Mexico State and Jacksonville State, but those moments are drowned out by ugly losses at Utah State, Missouri State and Liberty and neutral-site setbacks to William & Mary and UAB. Selection committees prize quality wins away from home and at neutral sites and UTEP lacks those marquee scalps while carrying damaging defeats, including an unexpected loss to Norfolk State, which leaves the overall profile thin. With the remaining slate weighted toward difficult road tests at New Mexico State, MTSU and WKU and only modest home opportunities against Kennesaw and Jacksonville State, the clearest path to the NCAA field runs through the conference tournament where a run of victories would produce the resume-changing wins missing from the regular season.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/11Loy Marymount152L71-58
11/15@Utah St25L75-51
11/24(N)William & Mary124L74-63
11/25(N)UAB120L75-59
12/7@Seattle131L75-68
12/13@Hawaii91L66-61
12/21Norfolk St311L72-71
12/22N Dakota St126W76-66
12/29@Louisiana Tech237L75-63
1/2@Missouri St215L79-55
1/4@Florida Intl202L76-64
1/8MTSU181W83-80
1/10WKU174L68-56
1/15@Delaware267W70-69
1/17@Liberty89L80-69
1/22Florida Intl202W83-77
1/24Missouri St215L62-57
1/28Louisiana Tech237L69-59
1/31Delaware267W70-55
2/4@Sam Houston St110L70-66
2/7New Mexico St165W91-88
2/11@Jacksonville St210W69-64
2/14Liberty89L73-64
2/21@New Mexico St16521%
2/26@MTSU18123%
2/28@WKU17422%
3/5Kennesaw18243%
3/7Jacksonville St21048%