NCAA Tournament March Madness

#249 Boston Univ

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Boston University’s résumé is anchored by a true road statement at Northeastern and a tight neutral-site win over Harvard, results that show it can win away from home and punch above its league profile, but that upside is tempered by damaging losses at Power Five venues such as Northwestern and Penn State and by a nonconference skid at Northern Kentucky and at Columbia that exposed defensive lapses and a thin margin for error. The bulk of what remains is Patriot League work that should yield opportunities to pile up wins yet offers only a handful of resume-changing chances on the road at Colgate and at Navy, so the team’s fate hangs on converting those harder league tests and avoiding more ugly defeats. In short, the strong moments give the committee something to weigh but the heavy losses and the limited number of high-quality remaining opponents mean Boston University must collect key road or neutral victories and control its conference run to alter how its season is viewed.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Northeastern228W76-75
11/7@Northwestern56L76-52
11/12Brown230W90-77
11/15Merrimack285L91-79
11/18@Columbia131L54-49
11/22(N)Harvard202W75-74
11/25@Penn St93L96-87
11/29@N Kentucky178L74-65
12/6@New Hampshire34763%
12/10Maine32576%
12/13@Dartmouth27743%
12/21MA Lowell30472%
12/31@Navy19029%
1/3American Univ23458%
1/7@Lafayette33258%
1/10Army34982%
1/14Lehigh29770%
1/17@Loyola MD31853%
1/21Lafayette33278%
1/24@Colgate16625%
1/28Navy19050%
1/31@Bucknell31553%
2/2@Holy Cross30751%
2/7Loyola MD31874%
2/11@Army34964%
2/14Bucknell31574%
2/16Colgate16645%
2/21@Lehigh29748%
2/25Holy Cross30772%
2/28@American Univ23436%