NCAA Tournament March Madness

#153 Cent Arkansas

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cent Arkansas presents the kind of résumé that puts it on the bubble: the team proved it can win on the road in league play with trips to Queens and Lipscomb and it picked up neutral-site résumé boosts by beating Bellarmine and FGCU, while it accumulated steady conference home wins including the victory over Eastern Washington. Those positives are tempered by damaging blowouts away at power-conference arenas like North Carolina and Arkansas and further difficult defeats at SMU and North Texas that force the committee to question how the team performs against top-tier opposition. The best stretch came with a late neutral-site run in the league postseason that suggested postseason poise, but the loss in the neutral championship game removed the clearest path to an automatic berth. With no remaining nonconference chances to erase those heavy road losses, the profile reads as a solid conference performer that nevertheless left too many holes against higher-caliber opponents.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@North Carolina29L94-54
11/11@Arkansas15L93-56
11/16Samford215L84-77
11/20@North Texas136L74-56
11/23E Washington171W92-65
11/25E Illinois323W81-60
11/29@ETSU167L80-57
12/3Ark Little Rock311W85-47
12/7@East Texas A&M289L75-68
12/13@Vanderbilt12L83-72
12/21@SMU42L99-82
1/1FGCU244W85-83
1/3Stetson303W93-73
1/8@Bellarmine278L84-78
1/10@E Kentucky297L79-75
1/15Jacksonville295W62-60
1/17North Florida335W98-69
1/22@West Georgia304W86-65
1/28@Queens NC181W100-90
1/31E Kentucky297W90-81
2/4North Alabama343W81-60
2/7@Lipscomb200W86-78
2/9@North Alabama343W72-65
2/11Bellarmine278W84-76
2/14West Georgia304W79-62
2/19@Stetson303W88-76
2/21@FGCU244L75-71
2/25@Austin Peay173W93-88
2/28Queens NC181W84-79
3/6(N)Bellarmine278W86-73
3/7(N)FGCU244W73-63
3/8(N)Queens NC181L98-93