Analysis: What to expect from Wednesday’s NCAA men’s tournament First Four games
. At No. 312 out of 363 Division I teams, the Knights are the lowest-ranked team in the field of 68, but thanks to an NCAA rule that prohibits teams that are transitioning to Division I from playing in the NCAA tournament,Only two teams in the nation were less efficient defensively than the Knights this season. Their opponents shot 36.9 percent from three-point range and 56.1 percent from two-point range, both among the country’s worst marks.
The nation’s shortest team per Pomeroy’s numbers — none of its rotational players stands taller than 6 feet 6, and its two starting guards are 5-8 and 5-9 — Fairleigh Dickinson could struggle inside against Texas Southern big men Joirdon Karl Nicholas and John Walker, who are both 6-9. The Tigers get 58.8 percent of their points from two-pointers , and it will be a chore for the undersized Knights to stop them.Texas Southern -2.5.
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