NCAA Tournament March Madness

#60 West Virginia

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Projection: next four out

West Virginia’s resume is built on a few signature highs and too many conspicuous lows, with home wins over Kansas and a quality neutral showing against BYU sitting beside resume-making road victories at Arizona State and Cincinnati; those results prove they can beat good teams in tough places. The problem is the damage elsewhere, with emphatic road defeats at Houston and Arizona, neutral-site setbacks to Clemson and Xavier, a recent neutral drubbing by BYU and a late-season skid in true road games that includes losses at Kansas State, TCU and Oklahoma State, which sap the value of their better wins. They showed they could flirt with quality in a narrow neutral game against Ohio State but could not convert that into a signature resume boost, and an offense that disappears in hostile and neutral environments has forced the defense to carry too much weight. With few remaining chances to add a big road or neutral victory, the resume lacks the consistent road and neutral success a committee wants, which is why the projection lands where it does.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Mt St Mary's278W70-54
11/6Campbell182W73-65
11/9Lehigh284W69-47
11/13Pittsburgh94W71-49
11/17Lafayette325W81-59
11/21(N)Clemson36L70-67
11/23(N)Xavier96L78-68
11/30Mercyhurst287W70-38
12/3Coppin St363W91-49
12/6(N)Wake Forest74L75-66
12/9Ark Little Rock311W90-58
12/13(N)Ohio St26L89-88
12/22MS Valley St365W86-51
1/2@Iowa St6L80-59
1/6Cincinnati44W62-60
1/10Kansas21W86-75
1/13@Houston5L77-48
1/17Colorado70W72-61
1/21@Arizona St68W75-63
1/24@Arizona3L88-53
1/27Kansas St100W59-54
1/31Baylor48L63-53
2/5@Cincinnati44W59-54
2/8Texas Tech19L70-63
2/14@UCF54W74-67
2/18Utah126L61-56
2/21@TCU43L60-54
2/24@Oklahoma St66L91-84
2/28BYU23W79-71
3/3@Kansas St100L65-63
3/6UCF54W77-62
3/11(N)BYU23L68-48