NCAA Tournament March Madness

#241 Stony Brook

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Stony Brook’s resume is a classic example of a team whose ceilings and flaws cancel each other out so the only clear ticket to the national field is through the conference’s automatic bid. Their best moments are real enough—a high-scoring home victory over Charleston, a gritty road triumph at Northeastern and a tight win at Loyola Marymount—but those highlights are undercut by damaging showings elsewhere, most notably the neutral-site blowout at Pacific, an embarrassing home defeat to SUNY Albany and a series of ugly road losses at Marist and William and Mary that scream inconsistency. The team has a handful of winnable conference dates left, including home chances to build a resume and dangerous road tests at Hofstra and Elon that could swing perception either way, yet unless they string together quality wins down the stretch and capture the conference title their profile lacks the sustained road and signature victories a committee prizes.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/8Maine345W71-60
11/15@Yale70L86-79
11/20Brown264W80-70
11/24(N)Pacific109L86-58
11/25(N)Bethune-Cookman244W61-54
11/28@Loy Marymount161W71-68
12/6@Duquesne135L84-75
12/9Columbia164W77-73
12/13C Michigan302W78-55
12/17SUNY Albany304L71-55
12/21@Marist162L70-51
12/29@Hampton243L62-59
12/31@William & Mary130L76-57
1/3NC A&T296W81-80
1/8@Drexel212L56-37
1/10UNC Wilmington117L75-71
1/15Hofstra115W76-71
1/17Col Charleston171W112-106
1/22@Northeastern252W95-80
1/29@Campbell20533%
1/31@Elon17527%
2/5Monmouth NJ19854%
2/7Northeastern25264%
2/12@Towson16826%
2/16Drexel21256%
2/21Hampton24362%
2/26@Monmouth NJ19832%
2/28@Hofstra11517%
3/3Towson16847%