NCAA Tournament March Madness

#358 Chicago St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Chicago State’s résumé points straight to the conference tournament as its realistic path to the NCAA field. The road win at Loyola-Chicago stands out as a genuine positive and proves the team can win away from home, but that single bright spot has been overwhelmed by a string of blowout defeats at major-conference stops such as St Louis, Iowa, Butler, DePaul and Indiana that leave the résumé thin on quality victories. The team has struggled to protect itself on the road and has dropped games to opponents it needed to beat to build an at-large case. With several winnable home dates against league rivals and a handful of modest road opportunities still on the schedule, Chicago State can improve its standing before the league tournament, but those chances are unlikely to erase the damage of the heavy nonconference losses, so the most straightforward route to the NCAA tournament runs through winning the conference crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@DePaul107L92-62
11/6@St Louis25L108-86
11/11@Butler60L98-66
11/15IL Chicago136L67-63
11/18@Minnesota82L66-54
11/20@Iowa23L93-54
11/25@PFW230L90-77
11/28@Youngstown St220L87-64
12/6@Illinois St84L95-53
12/14@Loyola-Chicago318W84-75
12/16@Bowling Green128L76-55
12/20@Indiana31L78-58
1/2Wagner323L79-72
1/4LIU Brooklyn219L74-55
1/8@F Dickinson342L70-63
1/10@Stonehill341L85-82
1/17Le Moyne261L72-57
1/19New Haven338L62-56
1/23@St Francis PA353L81-60
1/25@Mercyhurst300L61-59
1/29St Francis PA35357%
1/31Mercyhurst30035%
2/5@Central Conn29316%
2/7@New Haven33827%
2/12Stonehill34148%
2/14@Le Moyne26112%
2/19F Dickinson34248%
2/21Central Conn29333%
2/26@LIU Brooklyn2198%
2/28@Wagner32322%