NCAA Tournament March Madness

#165 WKU

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Western Kentucky’s résumé has the kinds of highs and lows that put a committee on guard: a signature neutral win over Wichita State and competitive neutral games against Vanderbilt and South Florida demonstrate the team can beat quality opponents away from its building, but ugly road defeats at New Mexico State and Marshall and a home setback to Kennesaw undercut that promise. Many of the better results have come at home and while the road victory at UTEP shows they can travel, true consistency away from home is missing, so the committee will weigh the bright neutral moments against the damaging losses. With home chances to beat Liberty and to avenge the New Mexico State loss and a string of tougher road tests at Liberty, Middle Tennessee and Delaware, WKU still controls its fate, yet as things stand this profile looks like a squad that would need a conference tournament title to be safe.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Tennessee Tech330W82-70
11/10@E Kentucky257W87-79
11/16Tennessee St242W95-82
11/26(N)Vanderbilt12L83-78
11/27(N)South Florida80L97-91
11/28(N)Wichita St102W75-70
12/6Evansville271W80-79
12/10@Marshall176L77-61
12/19Tulsa62L82-81
12/29@Jacksonville St232L78-67
1/2Sam Houston St110W102-91
1/4Louisiana Tech248W66-61
1/8@New Mexico St123L80-64
1/10@UTEP277W68-56
1/14Missouri St207W87-72
1/17Kennesaw158L81-65
1/21Liberty9841%
1/24@Sam Houston St11026%
1/28@Kennesaw15837%
1/31@MTSU13131%
2/5Jacksonville St23273%
2/7Florida Intl18065%
2/14MTSU13152%
2/18@Delaware29366%
2/21@Liberty9821%
2/26New Mexico St12350%
2/28UTEP27781%
3/5@Missouri St20747%
3/7@Florida Intl18043%