NCAA Tournament March Madness

#199 IL Chicago

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Illinois Chicago’s résumé is a mixed bag of encouraging moments and damaging slip-ups that explain its current standing. The staff has shown it can win at home and grind out an eye-catching road victory at Chicago State while picking up a neutral-site win over Southern Indiana, but those positives are offset by an ugly home loss to Ark Pine Bluff, a road setback at Robert Morris, a neutral loss to High Point and a tough road outing at Oregon State that leave the nonconference ledger without a statement victory. What follows matters a great deal because road dates at Yale and Belmont loom as stiff tests while home opportunities against Northern Iowa and Murray State and the remainder of the conference road slate offer clear chances to add the sort of resume-building wins committees respect or to compound the damage of earlier bad results.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Detroit309W91-71
11/7@Oregon St178L76-73
11/15@Chicago St356W67-63
11/20(N)High Point87L90-80
11/22(N)Southern Indiana303W84-73
11/26@Robert Morris174L88-74
12/3Ark Pine Bluff357L63-62
12/7@Yale7711%
12/13@Belmont8514%
12/17Northern Iowa9132%
12/21@Charlotte19238%
1/1Murray St11438%
1/4@Valparaiso19639%
1/7S Illinois13345%
1/10@Illinois St11620%
1/13@Northern Iowa9115%
1/17Drake12142%
1/20Evansville29577%
1/24@Bradley12923%
1/27Indiana St20262%
1/31@S Illinois13324%
2/3@Murray St11419%
2/6Belmont8530%
2/12@Drake12122%
2/15Illinois St11639%
2/18@Evansville29557%
2/21Valparaiso19661%
2/24Bradley12944%
3/1@Indiana St20240%