NCAA Tournament March Madness

#299 Chattanooga

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Chattanooga’s profile explains why its only realistic route to the NCAA tournament runs through the Southern Conference tournament because the nonconference slate featured high-profile road tests at St. Mary’s and UNLV and a neutral-site meeting with Auburn that all went badly and left the team without a signature win. The program’s best moments came in gritty road victories at Mercer, Citadel, Western Carolina and Wofford and in home wins over the likes of Samford, but those wins are against underwhelming opponents and are outweighed by heavy road and neutral losses at Bellarmine and UNC Greensboro plus narrow defeats to conference rivals such as Furman and ETSU. Committees reward quality wins away from home and in neutral settings and Chattanooga simply lacks that résumé currency, so its standing hinges on taking care of business in the conference tournament where every game becomes an automatic qualifier opportunity.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@St Mary's CA22L87-66
11/8@UNLV105L101-69
11/15@FGCU240L91-73
11/19@S Carolina St356W78-66
11/22North Alabama341W71-57
11/30Tennessee St195L70-64
12/6SE Missouri St230L74-70
12/13(N)Auburn40L92-78
12/17@Bellarmine281L79-64
12/21@Alabama A&M298W73-66
1/1@UNC Greensboro302L77-72
1/3@VMI360L79-71
1/7Furman203L78-67
1/10Samford210W88-79
1/14@Wofford251W76-67
1/17@W Carolina234W90-82
1/21ETSU143L67-66
1/24@Samford210L75-64
1/29Wofford251L81-55
2/1@Furman203L75-70
2/5Mercer180W79-75
2/7Citadel348L78-71
2/11@ETSU143L73-61
2/14W Carolina234L81-76
2/19@Mercer180W94-90
2/21@Citadel348W93-72
2/26UNC Greensboro302L85-80
2/28VMI360W86-79
3/6(N)Citadel348L88-85