NCAA Tournament March Madness

#174 UTRGV

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UTRGV’s profile points squarely to a conference tournament road because the nonconference slate produced bruising losses at Baylor, Boise State and Illinois without a marquee win to counterbalance them, while the program’s best moments — road victories at Southern Utah and Lamar, a convincing trip to Houston Christian and a gritty home win over McNeese State — come against lesser competition and do little to sell an at-large case; offsetting that are damaging results at New Orleans, Nicholls State, UT Arlington and surprise setbacks at East Texas A&M and Northwestern Louisiana that weaken the resume, and the remaining schedule offers several winnable home games and a handful of road chances at Incarnate Word or New Orleans but also a difficult trip to McNeese State and a tough matchup with SF Austin, so unless UTRGV converts those swing opportunities and picks up a meaningful road or neutral victory its clearest path to the NCAA field is earning the Southland’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Baylor52L96-81
11/8@Southern Utah278W95-72
11/11@Boise St54L85-65
11/22@Missouri St195L74-67
11/24@Illinois4L87-73
12/3@SF Austin99L73-60
12/7Austin Peay163W63-50
12/11UT Arlington143L58-50
12/16@Lamar207W83-72
12/29New Orleans202L85-69
12/31Nicholls St247L71-69
1/3TAM C. Christi185L63-59
1/5Incarnate Word248W80-67
1/10@East Texas A&M295L77-69
1/12@Northwestern LA271L64-63
1/17McNeese St68W79-76
1/19SE Louisiana259W68-65
1/24@Houston Chr306W68-51
1/26@TAM C. Christi185W64-55
1/31@Incarnate Word24854%
2/2Houston Chr30684%
2/7@New Orleans20245%
2/9@Nicholls St24754%
2/14SF Austin9940%
2/16Lamar20767%
2/21@SE Louisiana25958%
2/23@McNeese St6813%
2/28East Texas A&M29582%
3/2Northwestern LA27179%