NCAA Tournament March Madness

#310 MA Lowell

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

MA Lowell’s season leaves little margin for an at-large case so the practical path to the NCAA tournament runs through the America East automatic bid; the nonconference slate produced no marquee victories and is defined instead by heavy road defeats at Connecticut and Wake Forest and further setbacks at Columbia and Bradley that will count against any resume review. The high point was a road win at Stonehill and a gritty showing at St Peter’s that suggested the team can compete away from home at times, but those positives are outweighed by blowout losses that exposed defensive issues. The remaining conference schedule, with home dates against Bryant, NJIT, New Hampshire and Binghamton and league road trips to Vermont, Maine and Albany along with a tough road test at Iowa and matchups with Massachusetts, Quinnipiac and Boston University, gives plenty of opportunities to pile up résumé-building wins and grab the kind of road or neutral triumphs a committee values, but without a signature nonconference win the cleanest way into the field is to secure the America East automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Connecticut7L110-47
11/10New Haven351L73-67
11/13@Columbia134L86-72
11/16@Wake Forest54L109-75
11/19@Bradley129L87-77
11/22@St Peter's330L68-66
11/26@Stonehill343W75-64
12/6@Massachusetts18719%
12/13@Quinnipiac14814%
12/16Sacred Heart27553%
12/21@Boston Univ24928%
12/29@Iowa311%
1/3SUNY Albany31663%
1/8@Bryant31240%
1/10@Binghamton34954%
1/15NJIT35075%
1/22Vermont20942%
1/24@UMBC25930%
1/29@New Hampshire34652%
1/31@Maine32543%
2/5@NJIT35054%
2/7@SUNY Albany31641%
2/12Bryant31262%
2/19New Hampshire34673%
2/21Binghamton34974%
2/26@Vermont20922%
2/28UMBC25951%
3/3@Maine32543%