NCAA Tournament March Madness

#275 W Michigan

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Western Michigan’s résumé features a few useful wins over Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan and road victories at SIUE and Bowling Green that show it can beat league rivals, but those moments are overwhelmed by damaging road losses at Ohio State and Iowa and defeats at Valparaiso and Akron plus setbacks to Buffalo and Toledo that expose a porous defense and a lack of consistent success away from home. The Broncos have rarely beaten high-end opponents on neutral floors and their best wins come against teams the committee will view as weak, so there is little margin for error late in the season. With both nonconference and league résumés offering limited quality, the only realistic way into the field is to secure the Mid‑American’s automatic berth by winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Coastal Car229W76-71
11/9@Campbell189L91-82
11/12PFW262W83-71
11/16@South Dakota283L83-78
11/20@Ohio St27L91-58
11/23Mt St Mary's280W83-60
11/29@Valparaiso157L84-55
12/3Southern Indiana339W88-74
12/6@SIUE257W83-73
12/14@Iowa23L91-51
12/20Buffalo205L88-71
12/30@Toledo136L84-79
1/6@Miami OH90L87-76
1/10E Michigan240W79-62
1/13Massachusetts198L85-82
1/17@Akron60L104-89
1/20Bowling Green149L72-54
1/24C Michigan271W77-65
1/27@N Illinois333L85-65
2/3@Ohio227L91-71
2/7@Texas St244L77-61
2/11Toledo136L90-79
2/14@E Michigan240W76-62
2/17Akron60L90-73
2/21@C Michigan271L83-70
2/24@Bowling Green149W88-79
2/27Miami OH90L69-67
3/3Ball St291L74-71
3/6@Kent156L86-78