Greetings dear aspirant

The cut-off trends keeps changing every year and it depends on the number of students attempting the exam, difficulty level, number of available seats, etc. With marks of 176, you can very easily secure a IT seat in Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering in Kalavakkam as the opening marks for  IT branch was 159 and the closing marks was 196.5 for open category (OC) in TNEA previous few years. So, just apply to their counselling process and you'll easily secure seat.

https://www.careers360.com/colleges/sri-sivasubramaniya-nadar-college-of-engineering-kalavakkam/cut-off

You can have a look at the detailed glance about everything related to SSN previous year cut-off trends from the above link.

Hope I've cleared all your doubts!!

All the best for your future career