NCAA Tournament March Madness

#113 Troy

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Projected seed: 13 (automatic qualifier)

Troy’s résumé is anchored by a signature road win at San Diego State and a string of useful conference victories, including road wins at UAB and Old Dominion and home wins over Arkansas State and Southern Miss, which show the team can win away from home and close out league tests. Those highs are blunted by puzzling setbacks like the loss at Cal State Northridge and the loss to West Georgia that will make the committee wary, and narrow defeats at USC and in neutral-site play against Toledo underscore that Troy can hang with better teams even when the result didn’t go their way. With several winnable conference games remaining and a meaningful test against Akron still on the slate, Troy has clear chances to remove doubt. Until those outcomes are decided the combination of a marquee nonconference road victory, a respectable Sun Belt body of work and a handful of damaging losses explains its placement.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Kent139W103-97
11/7@Furman166W64-61
11/14@Loy Marymount161L74-63
11/16@CS Northridge210L94-85
11/18@San Diego St43W108-107
11/20@USC47L107-106
11/24(N)Toledo156L75-68
11/26(N)St Francis PA353W74-64
12/1West Georgia329L93-89
12/14@UAB123W86-85
12/20Marshall177W70-63
12/31Texas St282W100-80
1/3South Alabama206W59-49
1/7@Arkansas St159L86-74
1/10@Louisiana331W90-70
1/14Southern Miss250W91-65
1/17Arkansas St159W99-74
1/21@Old Dominion225W83-77
1/24@Ga Southern245W83-78
1/29James Madison22983%
1/31Appalachian St21681%
2/4@Georgia St27073%
2/7Akron5340%
2/11@Texas St28275%
2/14@Southern Miss25069%
2/18@ULM36093%
2/21@South Alabama20661%
2/24Louisiana33194%
2/27ULM36098%