NCAA Tournament March Madness

#316 SUNY Albany

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SUNY Albany’s profile is shaped by a lone competitive neutral showing against Colgate that suggests the team can hang with a higher-level opponent when things click and by several heavy road defeats at Marquette, Massachusetts and Rhode Island plus a lopsided nonconference loss to Fordham that have damaged its resume and public perception. The team has so far shown little in the way of road or neutral victories, which are the kind of results selection committees prize, and that leaves home and conference matchups as the primary way to change its trajectory. The remaining slate features a handful of winnable America East assignments at venues like Bryant, Binghamton, Maine and New Hampshire that could repair the profile if Albany takes care of business, while neutral and true road tests at Columbia, Yale, Florida Atlantic and South Carolina represent the meaningful signature opportunities that are harder to come by and would be needed to offset the earlier blowouts. Overall the resume reads like a team with one encouraging nonconference moment, several resume-damaging defeats, and a stretch of conference games that will determine whether those early losses remain the defining story.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Marquette86L80-53
11/8@Massachusetts187L83-62
11/14@Rhode Island94L80-61
11/21@Siena150L73-63
11/28(N)Colgate164L69-67
11/29(N)Fordham221L88-68
12/6@Columbia13410%
12/10(N)Yale776%
12/13@FL Atlantic1178%
12/17@Stony Brook21922%
12/21Cornell15931%
12/30@South Carolina925%
1/3@MA Lowell31037%
1/10Bryant31260%
1/15Binghamton34973%
1/19Vermont20940%
1/22@Maine32541%
1/24@New Hampshire34649%
1/29NJIT35073%
1/31UMBC25949%
2/5@Bryant31238%
2/7MA Lowell31059%
2/14@Binghamton34952%
2/19@NJIT35052%
2/21@UMBC25928%
2/26Maine32564%
2/28New Hampshire34671%
3/3@Vermont20921%