NCAA Tournament March Madness

#266 W Michigan

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Western Michigan’s resume reads like a team that has shown enough flashes to be competitive but not enough signature wins to get an at-large look, so its route to the big dance runs through the conference tournament. The season’s brighter moments are wins over Coastal Carolina and Mount St. Mary’s and a gritty road victory at SIUE plus solid home results against Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan, but those are offset by bruising road blowouts at Ohio State and Iowa and a poor trip to Valparaiso and a deflating home loss to Bowling Green that undercut the resume. A porous defense in those defeats and a string of conference losses have left Western Michigan short on marquee wins away from home, so the remaining slate — including trips to Ohio and Texas State and key matchups with Toledo, Akron and the conference road games still to play — are the last realistic chances to change the committee’s view.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Coastal Car234W76-71
11/9@Campbell205L91-82
11/12PFW230W83-71
11/16@South Dakota287L83-78
11/20@Ohio St40L91-58
11/23Mt St Mary's297W83-60
11/29@Valparaiso154L84-55
12/3Southern Indiana324W88-74
12/6@SIUE258W83-73
12/14@Iowa23L91-51
12/20Buffalo169L88-71
12/30@Toledo156L84-79
1/6@Miami OH88L87-76
1/10E Michigan223W79-62
1/13Massachusetts179L85-82
1/17@Akron53L104-89
1/20Bowling Green128L72-54
1/24C Michigan302W77-65
1/27@N Illinois301L85-65
2/3@Ohio23532%
2/7@Texas St28242%
2/11Toledo15638%
2/14@E Michigan22330%
2/17Akron5313%
2/21@C Michigan30248%
2/24@Bowling Green12815%
2/28Miami OH8821%
3/3Ball St31071%
3/6@Kent13917%