NCAA Tournament March Madness

#189 Youngstown St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Youngstown St's profile reads like a team with upside but not enough consistency to be comfortably secure. The road victory at Grand Canyon and the gritty conference win over Wright State show this roster can deliver tough wins away from home and the neutral win over Georgia Southern adds a useful nonconference scalp. However the resume is weakened by poor outings at Pittsburgh and Toledo and by narrow defeats at St Bonaventure, Robert Morris and Northern Kentucky that reveal a tendency to come up short in hostile environments. Home losses to UNC Greensboro and to league opponents further sap resume strength and leave little room for error. A stretch of conference games that includes trips to Wright State, Cleveland State and Oakland plus home dates with Northern Kentucky and Milwaukee gives Youngstown St clear chances to change the narrative but those outcomes need to include quality road results and avoidance of more damaging home setbacks for the committee to view the resume more favorably.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Pittsburgh93L74-59
11/7@Grand Canyon102W90-81
11/15@St Bonaventure114L84-80
11/19@Toledo162L92-75
11/23(N)UNC Greensboro277L68-62
11/24(N)Ga Southern212W67-61
11/28Chicago St351W87-64
12/3Wright St142W69-68
12/6@IUPUI340W78-55
12/17@Robert Morris197L80-77
12/20SC Upstate275W74-65
12/29Detroit282L73-68
1/1Oakland130L85-83
1/4@N Kentucky194L94-79
1/7PFW25774%
1/15@Wright St14229%
1/17@Cleveland St32368%
1/22WI Green Bay24371%
1/24WI Milwaukee20964%
1/30IUPUI34088%
2/4@PFW25753%
2/7Robert Morris19762%
2/12@Oakland13025%
2/15@Detroit28257%
2/18Cleveland St32385%
2/21N Kentucky19462%
2/22N Kentucky19462%
2/25@WI Milwaukee20942%
2/28@WI Green Bay24349%