NCAA Tournament March Madness

#325 IUPUI

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

IUPUI’s only realistic path to the NCAA tournament runs through the Horizon League automatic bid because a couple of impressive road wins at Eastern Michigan and at Oakland are outweighed by a pattern of bad losses and an inconsistent defense that has been exposed on the road against Ohio State, Butler and Grand Canyon and even at neutral sites against Alabama State. Home victories over Morehead State and Robert Morris show the team can close out games in familiar settings but losses at home to conference rivals such as Youngstown State and Wright State have dulled the resume, and there has been precious little signature nonconference success to argue for an at-large case. With the remaining slate offering the last opportunities to pick up resume-repairing wins at home against Cleveland State and Northern Kentucky and on the road at Wright State and Purdue Fort Wayne, the team needs to capitalize in those moments because the body of work to date leaves automatic qualification as the clearest route to the Big Dance.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Ohio St40L118-102
11/6LIU Brooklyn219L94-90
11/8@Butler60L112-80
11/14@E Michigan223W90-83
11/18@Charleston So227L103-91
11/21(N)Alabama St313L101-80
11/23@Air Force346L98-85
11/29Morehead St299W85-80
12/3@Detroit284L92-78
12/6Youngstown St220L78-55
12/11WI Green Bay226L85-75
12/22@Grand Canyon75L91-78
12/29@Cleveland St321L99-86
1/1@N Kentucky170L81-72
1/4Wright St142L81-77
1/9@WI Green Bay226L75-59
1/11@WI Milwaukee246L95-83
1/15Robert Morris193W96-93
1/17Detroit284L80-77
1/21@Oakland121W103-85
1/28@Robert Morris193L74-58
1/30@Youngstown St22018%
2/7Cleveland St32160%
2/12N Kentucky17027%
2/15@PFW23019%
2/19@Wright St1429%
2/25Oakland12119%
2/28WI Milwaukee24642%