NCAA Tournament March Madness

#243 Hampton

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Hampton projects to need its conference’s automatic berth because its résumé contains some modest wins but lacks a durable signature while featuring damaging defeats away from neutral stages. The road victory at Brown and a convincing home outing against Loyola Maryland are the team’s best moments, yet the heavy loss at Virginia and a pattern of setbacks at road and neutral venues have exposed an inability to win outside of home comfort. Home and neutral setbacks versus lesser opponents have undercut the value of close victories over Stony Brook and Towson and leave limited evidence of success against quality competition. Remaining chances against Drexel at Drexel, Towson on the road, a neutral meeting with NC A&T and key home dates with Elon and William & Mary provide paths to improve the profile, but without a signature road or neutral win an at-large case would look thin to the committee.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@WI Milwaukee246L90-86
11/11@Virginia16L91-53
11/14@Brown264W72-63
11/16(N)Holy Cross328L67-61
11/18@Boston College145L63-52
11/21@Norfolk St307L62-60
11/25@MD E Shore326W74-68
12/3Loyola MD322W93-71
12/13(N)Howard272L61-57
12/18(N)Jackson St339W84-77
12/19(N)Grambling279L81-72
12/29Stony Brook241W62-59
12/31Towson168W63-62
1/3@UNC Wilmington117L49-45
1/8@Campbell205L86-72
1/10@Col Charleston171L74-70
1/19NC A&T296W82-61
1/22Monmouth NJ198W65-63
1/24UNC Wilmington117L75-67
1/29@Drexel21233%
1/31@Towson16825%
2/5Elon17547%
2/7William & Mary13036%
2/13(N)NC A&T29661%
2/19@Hofstra11516%
2/21@Stony Brook24138%
2/26Col Charleston17146%
2/28Northeastern25263%
3/3@William & Mary13018%