NCAA Tournament March Madness

#209 Vermont

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Projected seed: 16 (automatic qualifier, play-in game) (automatic qualifier)

Vermont’s resume reads like a team that can win away from home and even grab a neutral-site victory over Princeton but has not delivered the kind of quality wins that earn a committee’s trust. Those encouraging moments are undermined by damaging home losses to Liberty and Rhode Island and by an ugly trip to Oregon State that revealed defensive shortcomings, while close defeats to Buffalo and Yale underscore struggles to finish against higher-caliber opponents. Most of the remaining games are league matchups that will pad the win column without materially improving strength of schedule and the only realistic nonconference opportunity to move the needle is a road date at UMBC, so the cleanest path to the NCAA field for Vermont runs through winning the conference crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/9@Brown264W89-84
11/15@Northeastern252W85-74
11/18@Buffalo169L94-90
11/24(N)Liberty92L79-73
11/25(N)Rhode Island103L80-65
11/26(N)Princeton224W79-74
11/30Yale70L77-74
12/3@Oregon St214L80-58
12/6@Pepperdine273W65-56
12/14Merrimack208W66-59
12/17Siena173W83-69
12/20Iona231L83-78
12/30@Princeton224L75-69
1/3@New Hampshire315W80-61
1/8Binghamton362W60-59
1/15Maine345W67-62
1/19@SUNY Albany304L75-68
1/22@MA Lowell319W77-68
1/24@Bryant349W62-52
1/29UMBC25470%
1/31NJIT33686%
2/5@Maine34574%
2/7New Hampshire31582%
2/12@Binghamton36287%
2/14Bryant34990%
2/19@UMBC25448%
2/21@NJIT33670%
2/26MA Lowell31983%
3/3SUNY Albany30479%