NCAA Tournament March Madness

#150 Cent Arkansas

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Projected seed: 15 (automatic qualifier)

Cent Arkansas's profile makes clear why its clearest path to the NCAA field is winning the conference tournament. The team has its best moments in league play, including a road victory at Lipscomb and a neutral-site win over Bellarmine that show it can close out big conference games, but those positives are outweighed by lopsided road defeats at marquee programs like North Carolina and Arkansas and damaging nonconference losses away at Power Five foes such as Vanderbilt and SMU that a committee will treat as significant blemishes. With the most eye-catching wins coming against modest opposition and the most harmful results arriving on the biggest stages the committee will view Cent Arkansas as a team better suited to earn an automatic berth than to build a convincing at-large case.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@North Carolina29L94-54
11/11@Arkansas16L93-56
11/16Samford210L84-77
11/20@North Texas142L74-56
11/23E Washington163W92-65
11/25E Illinois324W81-60
11/29@ETSU143L80-57
12/3Ark Little Rock308W85-47
12/7@East Texas A&M287L75-68
12/13@Vanderbilt15L83-72
12/21@SMU43L99-82
1/1FGCU240W85-83
1/3Stetson303W93-73
1/8@Bellarmine281L84-78
1/10@E Kentucky294L79-75
1/15Jacksonville293W62-60
1/17North Florida335W98-69
1/22@West Georgia304W86-65
1/28@Queens NC192W100-90
1/31E Kentucky294W90-81
2/4North Alabama341W81-60
2/7@Lipscomb197W86-78
2/9@North Alabama341W72-65
2/11Bellarmine281W84-76
2/14West Georgia304W79-62
2/19@Stetson303W88-76
2/21@FGCU240L75-71
2/25@Austin Peay165W93-88
2/28Queens NC192W84-79
3/6(N)Bellarmine281W86-73