NCAA Tournament March Madness

#198 Vermont

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Vermont’s résumé is defined by credible road victories at Brown, Northeastern and Pepperdine and a neutral-court win over Princeton that show the team can win away from home, but those positives are undercut by damaging losses at Oregon State and Buffalo, neutral setbacks to Liberty and Rhode Island, and a home defeat to Yale. The combination of solid travel results and those blunt nonconference blemishes leaves the profile short of a comfortable at-large case despite evidence the club can compete outside its building. The remainder of the America East slate brings a run of winnable home dates against teams such as Binghamton, Maine, New Hampshire and NJIT along with meaningful road tests at SUNY Albany, UMBC and a return trip to Princeton where Vermont can repair the résumé before the league tournament. The selection perspective will reward the team’s proven road and neutral-site wins while treating the lopsided and poorly timed losses as damage that makes conference play and the conference tournament the clearest paths to improving its standing.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9@Brown223W89-84
11/15@Northeastern212W85-74
11/18@Buffalo203L94-90
11/24(N)Liberty113L79-73
11/25(N)Rhode Island103L80-65
11/26(N)Princeton269W79-74
11/30Yale78L77-74
12/3@Oregon St169L80-58
12/6@Pepperdine283W65-56
12/14Merrimack277W66-59
12/17Siena15653%
12/20Iona17658%
12/30@Princeton26953%
1/3@New Hampshire33470%
1/8Binghamton35893%
1/15Maine34087%
1/19@SUNY Albany31966%
1/22@MA Lowell29658%
1/24@Bryant30461%
1/29UMBC28676%
1/31NJIT35391%
2/5@Maine34072%
2/7New Hampshire33486%
2/12@Binghamton35881%
2/14Bryant30480%
2/19@UMBC28655%
2/21@NJIT35378%
2/26MA Lowell29678%
3/3SUNY Albany31983%