NCAA Tournament March Madness

#250 Southern Miss

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Southern Miss looks like a team that will have to win the Sun Belt tournament because its resume shows flashes without a defining signature win and a handful of damaging defeats away from home. The squad had respectable, close outings at Buffalo and at South Carolina and it swept Louisiana while knocking off ULM and Texas State, but those positives are outweighed by ugly losses at Miami and at LSU and by heavy road defeats at Troy, Georgia State and Coastal Carolina that will stick in a committee’s mind. Neutral site chances have been scarce and the profile lacks a marquee victory against a clear top opponent, so the margin for error is thin. The remaining slate gives the program several clear opportunities to rehabilitate its standing with home games against Appalachian State and James Madison and a chance to pick up an eye-catching road win at Marshall, yet there are also hostile league trips to Arkansas State and South Alabama that could deepen the hole. Unless Southern Miss turns a couple of those upcoming league tests into quality road or neutral wins, the pragmatic path to the NCAA Tournament runs through winning the conference crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Buffalo169L85-79
11/9@South Carolina87L83-79
11/13@Grambling279L75-70
11/22(N)North Florida340W92-83
11/23(N)TN Martin211W70-60
12/3@Radford257W82-75
12/6@Miami FL38L88-64
12/8Grambling279W68-60
12/13(N)Mississippi73L71-67
12/18Louisiana331W62-54
12/20Arkansas St159L93-86
12/29@LSU50L90-62
1/1@ULM360W87-73
1/3@Louisiana331W74-67
1/8Texas St282W80-70
1/10ULM360W70-60
1/14@Troy113L91-65
1/17@Texas St282L74-67
1/22@Georgia St270L69-62
1/24@Coastal Car234L85-67
1/29Appalachian St21654%
1/31James Madison22957%
2/4@Marshall17725%
2/7Kent13938%
2/12South Alabama20653%
2/14Troy11331%
2/21Old Dominion22556%
2/24@Arkansas St15923%
2/27@South Alabama20631%