NCAA Tournament March Madness

#290 Bellarmine

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Bellarmine’s profile features a few encouraging moments — a neutral-site win over Houston Christian and road victories at Citadel and Jacksonville plus solid home results against Cent Arkansas and Chattanooga — but those positives are swamped by lopsided defeats at major-conference stops such as Georgia, Kansas State and Kentucky and a brutal loss at North Florida that significantly stains the résumé. Road and neutral success beyond those few wins is limited, and competitive outings at Notre Dame and Murray State do little to erase a string of conference setbacks at Lipscomb and Eastern Kentucky. With no signature scalps against top-tier opponents and several damaging road blowouts, the clearest path to the NCAA field is to secure the Atlantic Sun’s automatic berth. Upcoming league games at Cent Arkansas and Austin Peay and home tests against Queens, Stetson, FGCU, Lipscomb and Eastern Kentucky plus a trip to North Alabama are the concrete opportunities left to repair the résumé and show the kind of road and neutral victories that committees reward.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Georgia34L104-59
11/8@Kansas St86L98-71
11/15Wofford217L94-86
11/19@Notre Dame79L86-79
11/24@Citadel352W70-58
11/25(N)Houston Chr306W74-69
12/6@Murray St90L81-68
12/13N Kentucky170L80-76
12/17Chattanooga267W79-64
12/23@Kentucky32L99-85
1/1@West Georgia329L87-85
1/3@Queens NC188L98-76
1/8Cent Arkansas184W84-78
1/10North Alabama334L82-73
1/15@Lipscomb150L81-71
1/17@E Kentucky262L89-69
1/22@Jacksonville289W77-70
1/24@North Florida340L117-114
1/28West Georgia329W77-74
1/31Queens NC18840%
2/5Stetson32069%
2/7FGCU22847%
2/12@Cent Arkansas18420%
2/14@Austin Peay16317%
2/18Lipscomb15032%
2/21E Kentucky26255%
2/25@North Alabama33452%
2/28Austin Peay16334%