NCAA Tournament March Madness

#268 WI Milwaukee

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Milwaukee’s season is defined by a handful of bright spots against lesser opponents and a string of damaging losses away from home, so the committee is likely to view its at-large résumé as thin and to require a conference tournament title for NCAA entry. The best moments are a neutral-site escape against South Dakota State and road wins at Cleveland State and Youngstown State plus solid home results against teams like Hampton and Arkansas–Little Rock, but those victories come against low-end opposition and do not replace the impact of blowout losses at Indiana and Texas Tech and further heavy defeats at Wisconsin and Akron. Repeated setbacks to Horizon rivals such as Wright State, Northern Kentucky, Oakland and Detroit compound the problem by showing inconsistency inside the league, and without a true road or neutral win over a high-caliber opponent the simplest path to the field is to seize the Horizon tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Hampton272W90-86
11/8@Wofford253L86-76
11/10Ark Little Rock311W92-72
11/12@Indiana46L101-70
11/14@Texas Tech20L80-63
11/22@Wichita St82L75-58
11/29@Akron64L105-81
12/6Robert Morris144W74-72
12/14Indiana St201L70-68
12/19(N)S Dakota St220W88-87
12/21@Cleveland St320W81-71
12/29PFW260W77-55
12/30@Wisconsin22L80-60
1/1@Wright St140L76-70
1/5@WI Green Bay210L79-76
1/9N Kentucky176L85-67
1/11IUPUI317W95-83
1/15Oakland169L73-60
1/18@PFW260L100-82
1/22@Robert Morris144L88-76
1/24@Youngstown St214W65-64
1/30Wright St140L76-69
2/1Cleveland St320L90-88
2/4Detroit217L76-63
2/7@N Kentucky176L67-62
2/10@IUPUI317W92-88
2/15WI Green Bay210W75-72
2/20@Detroit217L91-86
2/22@Oakland169L81-70
2/25Youngstown St214W78-65
3/4@Detroit217L84-63