NCAA Tournament March Madness

#304 SUNY Albany

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

SUNY Albany's resume makes clear that the only realistic path to the NCAA field is securing the America East automatic bid. The best moments include a true road win at Stony Brook and solid home victories over Bryant, Binghamton and Vermont, but those are outweighed by lopsided losses on the road to Marquette, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and South Carolina and damaging neutral-site defeats to Colgate and Yale that leave the profile thin on quality wins away from home. The remaining slate should allow the Great Danes to build a winning streak and maintain momentum, yet it does not present many opportunities to add a marquee nonconference scalp before the league tournament. Given the combination of an underwhelming nonconference body of work, poor results in hostile environments and a schedule that offers mostly routine wins from here, Albany’s most realistic route into the NCAA field is to win its conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Marquette110L80-53
11/8@Massachusetts179L83-62
11/14@Rhode Island103L80-61
11/21@Siena173L73-63
11/28(N)Colgate204L69-67
11/29(N)Fordham200L88-68
12/6@Columbia164L93-65
12/10(N)Yale70L93-82
12/13@FL Atlantic97L105-79
12/17@Stony Brook241W71-55
12/21Cornell180L83-75
12/30@South Carolina87L96-67
1/3@MA Lowell319L83-71
1/10Bryant349W71-46
1/15Binghamton362W69-53
1/19Vermont209W75-68
1/22@Maine345L52-49
1/24@New Hampshire315L80-72
1/29NJIT33670%
1/31UMBC25449%
2/5@Bryant34956%
2/7MA Lowell31966%
2/14@Binghamton36271%
2/19@NJIT33649%
2/21@UMBC25428%
2/26Maine34575%
2/28New Hampshire31564%
3/3@Vermont20921%