NCAA Tournament March Madness

#295 Evansville

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Evansville's résumé has a clear high and some damaging lows: the neutral-site win at Oregon State shows they can beat a respectable opponent away from home and the home victory over Ball State is a tidy signature, but the lopsided road loss at Purdue and the neutral blowouts against Akron and College of Charleston are hard to overlook and undercut the program's credibility. Offense has been uneven while the defense has kept games within reach in tighter nonconference outings against Middle Tennessee and UT Arlington, so the team still looks capable of grinding out the kind of wins that matter. The remaining slate hands Evansville multiple chances to rebuild its case, with tough road dates at WKU and Notre Dame and important league tests against Belmont, Drake, Northern Iowa and Murray State as the most obvious opportunities to replace bad results with resume-defining wins. If those opportunities produce positive outcomes, the narrative shifts from a team hampered by awful losses to one that finished its nonconference slate with a resume worth noticing, but until then the heavy defeats remain the most salient feature.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Purdue5L82-51
11/12MTSU140L77-72
11/18UT Arlington183L84-76
11/21(N)Oregon St178W73-69
11/23(N)Akron60L97-59
11/24(N)Col Charleston188L78-59
12/3Ball St324W64-52
12/6@WKU12612%
12/13@Notre Dame644%
12/16Belmont8516%
12/21Drake12126%
12/29@Bradley12912%
1/1@Illinois St1169%
1/4Northern Iowa9117%
1/7Murray St11422%
1/10@Indiana St20223%
1/13Bradley12927%
1/20@IL Chicago19923%
1/25S Illinois13328%
1/28@Drake12111%
1/31@Northern Iowa917%
2/3Indiana St20244%
2/6@Valparaiso19623%
2/9Illinois St11623%
2/12@S Illinois13312%
2/18IL Chicago19943%
2/21@Murray St1149%
2/25@Belmont856%
2/28Valparaiso19643%