March Madness 7- Best Road Warriors Take Shot at Title

Some teams feast in home games, but obviously only teams that can win away from home can advance in March Madness. We ranked the tournament teams (and a few extra still alive as of 9 p.m. Saturday) based on the impressiveness of their three most impressive road wins. 

Akron and Bryant rank last with a 200 because they did not beat a top 200 team away from home this season. For the other teams, the number represents the average www.kenpom.com ranking of the top three teams wins away from home.

Perhaps the biggest turnaround is Buzz Williams' Texas A&M squad, which lost eight straight games only to come back down the stretch and win three of their last five games away from home against a top 25 team - at Alabama and then in the SEC tournament against regular season champ Auburn and Arkansas. If they upset Tennessee in the final then they head to the tournament as SEC champs.

Only five teams have had a more impressive three wins away from home - Texas Tech, Gonzaga, Duke, Wisconsin and Purdue - so all are battle tested for the tournament.

Rnk	Team	top 3	Notes on wins away from home
1	Texas Tech	9	Texas, Baylor and Tennessee.
2	Gonzaga	11	Saint Mary's, Texas Tech, UCLA
3	Duke	11	Duke, Gonzaga and UNC
4	Wisconsin	12	Purdue, Houston, Saint Mary's
5	Purdue	14	Nova, Illinois, Iowa
6	Texas A&M	18	After 8 gm losing streak, Buzz had 3 top 25 road wins (Alabama, Auburn and Arkansas) heading into SEC title game with Tennessee.
7	Arizona	19
8	Kentucky	20	UNC, Kansas, Alabama
9	Villanova	21	Uconn, Seton Hall, Tennessee
10	Miami FL	24
11	Michigan St.	25
12	Kansas	26
13	Tennessee	26
14	Memphis	27	Va Tech, SMU, 2nd chance at Houston
15	Michigan	28
16	Virginia Tech	28
17	Illinois	28
18	Baylor	28
19	Ohio St.	29
20	TCU	29
21	Oklahoma	30
22	Princeton	30
23	Arkansas	31
24	Connecticut	31
25	Auburn	32
26	Indiana	34
27	Iowa	34
28	San Diego St.	35
29	Iowa St.	35
30	Boise St.	37
31	Providence	37
32	Marquette	38	K-State, Nova, Seton Hall
33	North Carolina	38
34	Creighton	38
35	Colorado St.	39
36	Xavier	39
37	Saint Mary's	39
38	Alabama	39
39	LSU	45
40	Texas	45
41	Seton Hall	49
42	UCLA	49
43	San Francisco	49
44	USC	49
45	Loyola Chicago	50
46	Rutgers	51
47	Davidson	52
48	BYU	54
49	New Mexico St.	61
50	Wyoming	66
51	UAB	71
52	Wake Forest	71
53	Richmond	72
54	Houston	72
55	Chattanooga	72
56	Murray St.	74
57	Notre Dame	94
58	SMU	99
59	South Dakota St.	105
60	Delaware	130
61	Cal St. Fullerton	140
62	Vermont	149	beat Northern Iowa to start season by double digits
63	Texas Southern	152
64	Long Beach St.	153
65	Colgate	155
66	Georgia St.	157
67	Jacksonville St.	160
68	Yale	168
69	Montana St.	174
70	Saint Peter's	177
71	Longwood	188
72	Wright St.	192
73	Norfolk St.	193
74	Southeastern Louisiana	193
75	Akron	200
76	Bryant	200