NCAA Tournament March Madness

#302 C Michigan

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

C Michigan’s résumé reads like a team that will have to capture the conference’s automatic berth because its best moments come against low-end opposition—a home win over Appalachian St, a neutral-site victory over Coppin St and home wins versus Kent and Eastern Michigan—while a parade of damaging road and neutral losses has erased margin for error. Trips to St Louis and Wisconsin produced lopsided defeats, nonconference stops at Bradley, Marquette and Stony Brook went poorly, and conference road outings at Akron and Miami Ohio only deepened the concern. The remaining schedule offers home dates against Bowling Green and Northern Illinois and a string of road tests at Massachusetts, Louisiana, Kent, Buffalo and Ball State where wins would help, but with so few quality wins already on the ledger the practical path to the national field runs through a conference title.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Appalachian St216W82-66
11/8@Bradley144L85-54
11/13(N)South Alabama206L66-64
11/14(N)Coppin St364W82-59
11/20N Kentucky170L90-66
11/22@Marquette110L85-71
12/2@Loyola-Chicago318L83-72
12/7@St Louis25L107-65
12/13@Stony Brook241L78-55
12/20@N Illinois301L74-73
12/22@Wisconsin41L88-61
12/30Ohio235L80-64
1/3Toledo156L78-75
1/6@Akron53L82-69
1/10Kent139W87-85
1/13@Miami OH88L100-61
1/20Ball St310L68-67
1/24@W Michigan266L77-65
1/27E Michigan223W100-65
1/31Bowling Green12824%
2/3@Massachusetts17917%
2/7@Louisiana33147%
2/14N Illinois30161%
2/17@E Michigan22323%
2/21W Michigan26652%
2/24@Kent13912%
2/28@Buffalo16915%
3/3Akron539%
3/6@Ball St31041%