NCAA Tournament March Madness

#226 Vermont

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Projected seed: 16 (automatic qualifier, play-in game) (automatic qualifier)

Vermont’s résumé reads like a team that will have to win the America East tournament to earn a trip to the big dance because its highlights and holes point in opposite directions. The best moments — road victories at Brown and Northeastern, a neutral-site win over Princeton and an away win at Pepperdine — prove the Catamounts can win outside their building, but those bright spots are offset by damaging results such as a heavy loss at Oregon State, neutral setbacks to Liberty and Rhode Island and defeats at Buffalo, Princeton and Maine that expose inconsistency against stronger competition. Most of the remaining slate is filled with conference opponents like Binghamton, Bryant, UMBC, NJIT, MA Lowell and SUNY Albany, which are opportunities to cement seeding inside the league but not to manufacture a resume-changing win, so Vermont’s current profile slots it on the edge of the field and makes the conference tournament the clearest path to advancement.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9@Brown281W89-84
11/15@Northeastern265W85-74
11/18@Buffalo192L94-90
11/24(N)Liberty91L79-73
11/25(N)Rhode Island114L80-65
11/26(N)Princeton225W79-74
11/30Yale76L77-74
12/3@Oregon St210L80-58
12/6@Pepperdine280W65-56
12/14Merrimack182W66-59
12/17Siena178W83-69
12/20Iona249L83-78
12/30@Princeton225L75-69
1/3@New Hampshire327W80-61
1/8Binghamton362W60-59
1/15Maine346W67-62
1/19@SUNY Albany322L75-68
1/22@MA Lowell324W77-68
1/24@Bryant351W62-52
1/29UMBC259W64-55
1/31NJIT309L79-77
2/5@Maine346L76-70
2/7New Hampshire327W80-57
2/12@Binghamton36286%
2/14Bryant35189%
2/19@UMBC25946%
2/21@NJIT30959%
2/26MA Lowell32482%
3/3SUNY Albany32281%