NCAA Tournament March Madness

#173 UTRGV

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UTRGV’s profile points squarely to a conference tournament road because the nonconference slate produced bruising losses at Baylor, Boise State and Illinois without a marquee win to counterbalance them, while the program’s best moments — road victories at Southern Utah and Lamar, a convincing trip to Houston Christian and a gritty home win over McNeese State — come against lesser competition and do little to sell an at-large case; offsetting that are damaging results at New Orleans, Nicholls State, UT Arlington and surprise setbacks at East Texas A&M and Northwestern Louisiana that weaken the resume, and the remaining schedule offers several winnable home games and a handful of road chances at Incarnate Word or New Orleans but also a difficult trip to McNeese State and a tough matchup with SF Austin, so unless UTRGV converts those swing opportunities and picks up a meaningful road or neutral victory its clearest path to the NCAA field is earning the Southland’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Baylor52L96-81
11/8@Southern Utah278W95-72
11/11@Boise St62L85-65
11/22@Missouri St190L74-67
11/24@Illinois5L87-73
12/3@SF Austin93L73-60
12/7Austin Peay169W63-50
12/11UT Arlington142L58-50
12/16@Lamar220W83-72
12/29New Orleans222L85-69
12/31Nicholls St231L71-69
1/3TAM C. Christi187L63-59
1/5Incarnate Word243W80-67
1/10@East Texas A&M284L77-69
1/12@Northwestern LA282L64-63
1/17McNeese St67W79-76
1/19SE Louisiana264W68-65
1/24@Houston Chr307W68-51
1/26@TAM C. Christi187W64-55
1/31@Incarnate Word24352%
2/2Houston Chr30785%
2/7@New Orleans22248%
2/9@Nicholls St23150%
2/14SF Austin9338%
2/16Lamar22070%
2/21@SE Louisiana26458%
2/23@McNeese St6713%
2/28East Texas A&M28481%
3/2Northwestern LA28281%