NCAA Tournament March Madness

#293 Fairfield

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Fairfield has flashes of competence with a true road victory at NJIT, a high-scoring trip to Le Moyne and close home wins over Loyola Maryland and Stonehill, but those highlights are undercut by ugly defeats at power-conference stops like Penn State and Seton Hall and a lopsided loss to Columbia that expose struggles against quality opponents away from home. Many of the résumé’s wins come against lesser opposition and not on neutral courts where a committee places the most weight. The conference slate still presents a string of meaningful road tests at Quinnipiac, Siena and Iona along with a run of favorable home dates against Niagara, Canisius and Mt St Mary’s that can change the narrative, yet until Fairfield turns those road opportunities into signature victories the clearest path into the national field runs through a dominant conference postseason rather than an at-large case.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Penn St96L76-68
11/8@NJIT350W74-53
11/10@Seton Hall66L82-59
11/14Stonehill343W73-71
11/16Loyola MD318W85-82
11/22@Le Moyne320W97-83
11/26Columbia134L106-77
11/30New Hampshire346W72-68
12/5@Manhattan304L70-66
12/7@Merrimack28537%
12/14Monmouth NJ21346%
12/18@Central Conn23529%
12/29St Peter's33071%
1/2@Canisius35261%
1/4@Niagara34756%
1/9Rider34074%
1/14Manhattan30465%
1/17@Marist15218%
1/19@Siena15017%
1/22Niagara34776%
1/24Canisius35280%
1/30@Iona18422%
2/1Quinnipiac14834%
2/5@Sacred Heart27535%
2/7Marist15236%
2/15@St Peter's33049%
2/20Sacred Heart27557%
2/22@Quinnipiac14816%
2/27Siena15035%
3/1Mt St Mary's30865%