NCAA Tournament March Madness

#281 Delaware

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Delaware’s résumé has a few encouraging moments but too many damaging setbacks to feel comfortable outside of winning the league outright. Its best work comes on the road and at neutral sites, most visibly the wins at George Washington and at New Mexico State and the neutral-site victory over UNC Greensboro, plus solid home wins against St Peter’s and Rider that show the program can close out inferior opponents. Those positives are counterbalanced by several ugly losses, including a heavy defeat at BYU and poor home showings against Iona and New Mexico State, and a pattern of road defeats that undercuts the resume. With a slate that still includes road tests at UTEP, Missouri State, Jacksonville State and trips to Kennesaw and MTSU along with games against Liberty, Louisiana Tech and WKU, there are clear opportunities to swap bad results for resume-building wins, but until that happens the cleanest route to the national field is taking the Conference USA title.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Bucknell327L78-70
11/11@BYU15L85-68
11/18St Peter's238W81-70
11/23(N)S Illinois124L79-59
11/25(N)UNC Greensboro308W73-60
12/1Iona231L89-66
12/6@Delaware St359L75-72
12/10@G Washington64W70-58
12/13CS Northridge210L88-66
12/16Rider355W65-57
12/29Missouri St195L61-43
1/2Jacksonville St197L67-64
1/4Kennesaw165W67-52
1/8@Sam Houston St104L72-60
1/10@Louisiana Tech232L70-68
1/15UTEP288L70-69
1/17New Mexico St158L97-68
1/24@Liberty92L67-51
1/28@New Mexico St158W73-64
1/31@UTEP28840%
2/4Liberty9219%
2/7MTSU14733%
2/12@Florida Intl19122%
2/14@Missouri St19523%
2/18WKU17638%
2/21@MTSU14716%
2/26@Jacksonville St19723%
2/28@Kennesaw16518%
3/5Sam Houston St10422%
3/7Louisiana Tech23250%