NCAA Tournament March Madness

#105 Memphis

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Projection: likely out

Memphis’s résumé features a signature home victory over Baylor but it is balanced against a string of damaging defeats, including a heavy loss at Louisville and a neutral-site setback to Purdue plus road losses at Wichita State and Tulsa that undercut its case. The Tigers have shown they can beat midlevel opponents at home, with wins over San Francisco and Temple, yet they lack resume-building wins away from campus where selection committees place the highest value. A run of conference games, including home tests against Florida Atlantic and Tulane, a home meeting with Wichita State, a pair of games with UAB split between locations and a difficult trip to Utah State, provides clear chances to repair the profile or to fall further behind. Given the gap between the quality of the best win and the severity and frequency of the bad losses, projecting Memphis outside the field is a defensible position unless it starts collecting meaningful road and neutral-site victories.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8San Francisco102W76-70
11/11@Mississippi73L83-77
11/16UNLV134L92-78
11/20(N)Purdue9L80-71
11/21(N)Wake Forest74L69-68
11/26S Illinois124W74-58
12/3New Orleans202W86-70
12/6Baylor52W78-71
12/13@Louisville19L99-73
12/17Vanderbilt12L77-70
12/20@Mississippi St83L71-66
12/22Alabama St313W88-67
12/31North Texas149W57-48
1/3@Rice237W76-70
1/11@FL Atlantic97L89-78
1/14Temple152W55-53
1/18UT San Antonio348W95-69
1/21@Tulsa57L83-66
1/24@Wichita St96L74-59
1/29FL Atlantic9758%
2/1Tulane19481%
2/5@UAB12346%
2/8Charlotte17277%
2/12@North Texas14952%
2/14@Utah St3012%
2/19@South Florida6926%
2/22UAB12368%
2/26Wichita St9658%
3/1@East Carolina27577%
3/5South Florida6946%
3/8@Tulane19462%