NCAA Tournament March Madness

#181 Appalachian St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Appalachian State’s season profile leaves little margin for error because its best moments are respectable road and neutral wins like the victory at Old Dominion and the neutral-site win over High Point, yet those positives are outweighed by damaging nonconference setbacks such as the heavy loss at Ohio State and the blowout defeat to Elon at home. Conference play shows the useful trait of getting wins away from home at places like Southern Miss, Troy and Georgia Southern but that resilience is undercut by poor losses at Mercer and UNC Asheville and multiple setbacks to Marshall including an agonizing narrow home defeat. With a scarcity of truly signature victories and several bad results to lesser opponents, the clearest path to the NCAA field runs through winning the Sun Belt tournament and the remaining matchups against Georgia Southern and at Texas State are the last realistic chances to sharpen the resume before the conference title run.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@C Michigan276L82-66
11/9NC Central353W76-54
11/11@Ohio St36L75-53
11/16@Dartmouth252W85-77
11/21Charlotte187W65-63
11/24Elon211L88-53
11/26@Mercer180L75-67
11/30@UNC Asheville229L67-55
12/11@East Carolina258W67-54
12/14(N)High Point91W86-78
12/18Coastal Car237W67-49
12/20Georgia St296L70-63
12/31@Old Dominion244W81-73
1/3@Marshall186L88-81
1/8@Georgia St296W52-50
1/10@Coastal Car237L67-62
1/15James Madison219W80-65
1/17Old Dominion244L75-73
1/22Louisiana302W72-58
1/23ULM348W59-43
1/29@Southern Miss238W70-63
1/31@Troy161W66-44
2/4South Alabama190W65-57
2/7E Michigan241W65-60
2/11@Ga Southern272W81-65
2/14@James Madison219L69-58
2/19Marshall186L94-93
2/21Ga Southern27278%
2/27@Texas St24953%