NCAA Tournament March Madness

#334 North Alabama

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

North Alabama’s profile makes the projection sensible because the best evidence on the resume comes from real road wins at San Francisco, Jacksonville State and Bellarmine, but those highlights are undercut by heavy losses at Clemson and Loyola Marymount and ugly home setbacks to North Florida and Jacksonville, so the club still lacks the kind of marquee victories that impress a committee; there are encouraging competitive showings such as the close game with ETSU but the team also folded in true road tests like Mississippi State, which leaves the overall body of work thin. The remaining slate offers clear opportunities to repair the resume with trips to FGCU, Stetson and Lipscomb and home dates against Cent Arkansas, West Georgia and Bellarmine, yet given how damaging some early losses were the most dependable way into the field runs through winning the conference’s automatic berth rather than expecting an at-large bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5@Mississippi St83L86-62
11/11Northwestern LA271W87-83
11/15ETSU126L78-74
11/17@Clemson29L81-61
11/22@Chattanooga267L71-57
12/1@Jacksonville St197W73-66
12/3@San Francisco102W65-63
12/15@Alabama A&M294L68-60
12/19@Loy Marymount161L91-57
1/1Stetson320L70-67
1/3FGCU228L72-55
1/8@E Kentucky262L88-80
1/10@Bellarmine290W82-73
1/15North Florida340L105-91
1/17Jacksonville289L90-68
1/21@Queens NC188L87-62
1/29@FGCU22817%
1/31@Stetson32035%
2/4@Cent Arkansas18412%
2/7@Austin Peay16310%
2/11West Georgia32959%
2/14E Kentucky26243%
2/18Queens NC18828%
2/21@Lipscomb1509%
2/25Bellarmine29048%
2/28@West Georgia32937%