NCAA Tournament March Madness

#121 Oakland

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Oakland’s résumé reads like a low seed because its nonconference slate features competitive trips to blue-blood programs without a marquee upset, and its clearest résumé builders — a road win at Montana, a road victory at Northern Kentucky and a neutral-site win over Lamar — are offset by blowouts at Michigan, Purdue and Houston and damaging setbacks to conference and mid-major foes such as Eastern Michigan and IUPUI. The team has shown it can win away from home but has also dropped several true road contests and failed to string together quality wins, which leaves its body of work middling in the committee’s eyes. With a stretch of winnable league games remaining at Cleveland State, Robert Morris and IUPUI there are straightforward opportunities to shore up the profile, yet the margin for error is thin because the committee rewards road and neutral signatures and punishes losses to lesser opponents.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Michigan2L121-78
11/7@Purdue9L87-77
11/12@Houston6L78-45
11/17@UCF45L87-83
11/21@E Michigan223L97-91
11/24(N)Lamar207W83-68
11/25@Montana151W95-87
12/3PFW230W101-92
12/6Toledo156W98-97
12/13@Northern Iowa112L75-63
12/17@N Kentucky170W82-77
12/20(N)Michigan St7L79-70
12/29@Wright St142L88-73
1/1@Youngstown St220W85-83
1/4Robert Morris193W96-73
1/9Cleveland St321W97-74
1/11Wright St142L94-84
1/15@WI Milwaukee246W73-60
1/18@WI Green Bay226W88-63
1/21IUPUI325L103-85
1/24@Detroit284W95-87
1/28@PFW230W74-65
2/1N Kentucky17071%
2/4@Cleveland St32181%
2/12Youngstown St22079%
2/15@Robert Morris19355%
2/20WI Green Bay22680%
2/22WI Milwaukee24683%
2/25@IUPUI32581%
2/28Detroit28488%