NCAA Tournament March Madness

#324 Southern Indiana

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Southern Indiana’s résumé contains a handful of encouraging moments — a true road victory at Valparaiso, a road success at Tennessee Tech and a comfortable home win over Western Illinois — but those highlights are overshadowed by heavy nonconference defeats at Butler, South Dakota and Western Michigan and neutral-site losses to Incarnate Word and Illinois Chicago. Lopsided road setbacks at Indiana State and others have exposed inconsistency away from home and eroded the type of quality resume the selection committee rewards. The rest of the slate is largely conference dates against Lindenwood, SIUE, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, Eastern Illinois, Morehead State and Arkansas Little Rock with a couple of road tests at Tennessee Martin and Southeast Missouri State that can help momentum but not supply the signature neutral-site wins Southern Indiana lacks. With limited quality nonconference proof and several damaging losses, the clearest path to the national tournament is securing the Ohio Valley’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/5@Butler60L88-58
11/7VMI354L78-74
11/12@South Dakota287L89-74
11/20(N)Incarnate Word248L87-81
11/22(N)IL Chicago136L84-73
11/26@Valparaiso154W64-56
12/3@W Michigan266L88-74
12/7@Indiana St201L77-55
12/18Ark Little Rock291L77-62
12/20Morehead St299L64-60
1/1@SIUE258L59-55
1/3@Lindenwood242L83-80
1/8SE Missouri St251L84-76
1/10TN Martin211L73-56
1/15@Tennessee Tech335W71-54
1/17@Tennessee St239L73-67
1/22E Illinois309L59-51
1/23W Illinois357W96-64
1/29Lindenwood24241%
1/31SIUE25845%
2/5@TN Martin21117%
2/7@SE Missouri St25123%
2/12Tennessee St23939%
2/14Tennessee Tech33565%
2/19@W Illinois35758%
2/21@E Illinois30935%
2/24@Morehead St29932%
2/28@Ark Little Rock29130%