NCAA Tournament March Madness

#217 Rice

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Rice's résumé is a tale of clear highs and bruising lows that explain its current standing: the comfortable neutral win over Oral Roberts and home victories against Texas State and East Texas A&M demonstrate the team can close games, but ugly trips to Oregon and Tennessee and bad-looking losses to SF Austin, Tarleton State, Kennesaw and at FGCU have already done real damage. The committee will weigh that scarcity of meaningful road and neutral success heavily, so the upcoming conference slate matters more than ever — visits to Tulsa, Wichita State and UAB and home dates with Memphis, North Texas and Temple are the kinds of opportunities that can flip perception. If Rice can convert a signature result away from home or string together quality conference wins it can repair those early blemishes, whereas continued middling results would leave those nonconference setbacks as the defining feature of the profile.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Oregon83L67-63
11/11SF Austin146L81-69
11/14East Texas A&M299W71-64
11/17@Tennessee16L91-66
11/20Tarleton St197L90-74
11/24(N)Kennesaw169L89-84
11/25@FGCU168L78-63
11/26(N)Oral Roberts305W81-62
12/3Texas St231W77-72
12/13Arkansas St15148%
12/20@Pepperdine28651%
12/31@Tulsa8412%
1/3Memphis7422%
1/7@Wichita St9914%
1/11Charlotte19256%
1/14@UT San Antonio26047%
1/21Temple15750%
1/25Tulsa8427%
1/28@East Carolina24444%
1/31@Charlotte19234%
2/4North Texas14143%
2/8@UAB10916%
2/11FL Atlantic11737%
2/14East Carolina24466%
2/22@Tulane17331%
2/25South Florida7925%
3/1@Temple15728%
3/4@North Texas14123%
3/8UT San Antonio26068%