NCAA Tournament March Madness

#352 Citadel

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Citadel’s résumé doesn’t present an at-large case, so its only realistic path to the NCAA field is winning the Southern Conference tournament. Nonconference travel produced damaging setbacks at Boston College and at South Carolina and a road loss at Richmond that undermined any claim of quality wins, while heavy defeats to lower-profile opponents and uneven results against regional mid-majors leave the body of work thin. The season’s few encouraging moments — a home victory over Furman and road wins at Wofford, VMI and Chattanooga — show the program can compete away from campus but they are isolated amid lopsided losses at Mercer, Western Carolina and ETSU that highlight inconsistency. With no marquee nonconference résumé to fall back on and mixed conference results, Citadel’s tournament hopes hinge on capturing the automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Boston College161L76-47
11/10Charleston So242L96-86
11/14@West Georgia304L100-92
11/24Bellarmine274L70-58
11/26Houston Chr289L72-65
11/30(N)Presbyterian279L69-41
12/4@Davidson109L79-63
12/13@South Carolina98L71-55
12/17@Col Charleston150L82-78
12/20@Richmond147L80-56
12/30ETSU142L74-49
1/3Wofford249L95-86
1/7@Mercer181L101-63
1/10W Carolina235W79-77
1/15@UNC Greensboro303L69-66
1/17@VMI360W82-68
1/21Furman202W77-75
1/23@ETSU142L84-55
1/29VMI360W80-56
1/31UNC Greensboro303W71-66
2/5@Samford210L78-64
2/7@Chattanooga294W78-71
2/11@W Carolina235L87-49
2/14Mercer181L70-54
2/19Samford210L78-75
2/21Chattanooga294L93-72
2/25@Furman202L72-51
2/28@Wofford249W93-90
3/6(N)Chattanooga29428%