NCAA Tournament March Madness

#227 Charleston So

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Charleston Southern’s profile makes clear why its most realistic route to the NCAA tournament is the conference automatic bid: the staff can point to solid road victories at Richmond and East Carolina and a crushing home win over North Florida, but those bright spots are outweighed by damaging losses such as the blowout at Virginia Tech, an unexpected neutral-site defeat to Lindenwood and a stunner at Alabama A&M that kill any at-large narrative. In-conference form has been erratic with road setbacks at Furman and Winthrop and worrisome home slips to High Point and SC Upstate, so even competent showings against midlevel opponents have not inspired confidence away from their best venues. The remaining schedule hands them several manageable dates at home against teams like Gardner Webb, Presbyterian and Longwood where they can rebuild momentum while tougher road tests at High Point and UNC Asheville threaten to define the season, so without a new signature nonconference win the cleanest path to March goes through winning the Big South.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Virginia Tech56L98-67
11/10@Citadel352W96-86
11/13@Alabama A&M301L68-64
11/14(N)Lindenwood246L83-77
11/18IUPUI317W103-91
11/21@East Carolina280W77-65
11/28@South Carolina72L74-62
12/2@TN Martin205L73-56
12/8S Carolina St360W84-44
12/18North Florida343W113-90
12/21@Furman174L84-76
12/28@Richmond116W77-72
12/31@Gardner Webb363W89-79
1/3UNC Asheville217W86-83
1/7@Winthrop126L81-77
1/10High Point96L84-82
1/14SC Upstate294L86-81
1/21@Presbyterian274L87-83
1/24@Longwood27650%
1/29Radford25667%
1/31Gardner Webb36395%
2/4@High Point9614%
2/7@SC Upstate29454%
2/12Presbyterian27471%
2/14@Radford25645%
2/21Longwood27671%
2/26Winthrop12639%
2/28@UNC Asheville21738%