NCAA Tournament March Madness

#347 Citadel

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Citadel’s profile leaves almost no room for an at-large bid because the few bright spots are conference wins while the nonconference slate is defined by bruising road defeats at Boston College, South Carolina and Davidson and damaging losses at Mercer and Western Carolina. The best moments — a home victory over Furman, road wins at VMI and Chattanooga and a neutral-site win over Chattanooga — show the team can grind out conference games but those triumphs aren’t the kind of résumé builders the selection committee rewards. The worst setbacks, including lopsided losses away and nonconference setbacks to Bellarmine, Houston Christian and Presbyterian, undercut any claim to meaningful success away from home. With scant signature wins and multiple damaging losses the only clear path onto the NCAA field is to secure the conference’s automatic berth by winning the SoCon tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Boston College156L76-47
11/10Charleston So241L96-86
11/14@West Georgia304L100-92
11/24Bellarmine278L70-58
11/26Houston Chr292L72-65
11/30(N)Presbyterian270L69-41
12/4@Davidson114L79-63
12/13@South Carolina95L71-55
12/17@Col Charleston172L82-78
12/20@Richmond160L80-56
12/30ETSU167L74-49
1/3Wofford253L95-86
1/7@Mercer190L101-63
1/10W Carolina229W79-77
1/15@UNC Greensboro300L69-66
1/17@VMI360W82-68
1/21Furman191W77-75
1/23@ETSU167L84-55
1/29VMI360W80-56
1/31UNC Greensboro300W71-66
2/5@Samford215L78-64
2/7@Chattanooga301W78-71
2/11@W Carolina229L87-49
2/14Mercer190L70-54
2/19Samford215L78-75
2/21Chattanooga301L93-72
2/25@Furman191L72-51
2/28@Wofford253W93-90
3/6(N)Chattanooga301W88-85
3/7(N)ETSU167L83-76