NCAA Tournament March Madness

#192 S Dakota St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

South Dakota State presents a resume that a selection committee would view as fragile: the Jackrabbits have bright moments, highlighted by a neutral-site win over Merrimack and a dominant home showing against Georgia State, but those positives are offset by heavy road defeats at power-conference sites like Arizona and Oregon and damaging neutral setbacks to Utah Valley and UC Irvine. Conference road losses at Northern Iowa and North Dakota State and an agonizing neutral loss to Wisconsin Milwaukee expose a vulnerability away from home, and the absence of a marquee road or neutral victory leaves little margin for error. The remaining slate against Summit League foes such as Oral Roberts, North Dakota, North Dakota State and South Dakota gives them concrete chances to erase those negatives, yet without a clean run through the league tournament they will need the conference’s automatic berth to reach the national field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)Merrimack208W75-66
11/9@Northern Iowa112L65-58
11/12@Oregon98L83-69
11/21Georgia St270W105-58
11/25(N)Utah Valley106L75-52
11/26(N)UC Irvine118L64-52
12/3@Northern Arizona316W75-62
12/6Idaho190L84-81
12/9@Ball St310W68-64
12/15(N)Wyoming111L87-72
12/19(N)WI Milwaukee246L88-87
12/29@Arizona1L99-71
1/1NE Omaha256W84-69
1/3@North Dakota280L90-87
1/8Denver265W87-79
1/14@N Dakota St120L76-65
1/17Missouri KC351W90-62
1/22@St Thomas MN127L74-69
1/28@NE Omaha256L80-71
1/31Oral Roberts33086%
2/4St Thomas MN12746%
2/7South Dakota28778%
2/12@Denver26554%
2/14@Oral Roberts33070%
2/18N Dakota St12045%
2/21North Dakota28077%
2/26@Missouri KC35179%
2/28@South Dakota28759%