NCAA Tournament March Madness

#352 Citadel

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Citadel’s resume simply does not include the kind of quality road or neutral wins the committee rewards, with losses at Boston College, South Carolina, Davidson and Richmond and a neutral loss to Presbyterian undermining any nonconference case; the few bright spots are narrow conference wins over Furman and Western Carolina and a road victory at VMI, but those come against teams the committee will view as low profile and they do little to offset heavy defeats at Mercer and ETSU and other lopsided road losses. With so few signature wins and a pattern of struggles away from home, the only realistic path to the NCAA field runs through winning the Southern Conference tournament, because the remaining regular season games are mostly against conference foes that offer limited resume upside and therefore little margin for error.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Boston College146L76-47
11/10Charleston So226L96-86
11/14@West Georgia328L100-92
11/24Bellarmine290L70-58
11/26Houston Chr308L72-65
11/30(N)Presbyterian276L69-41
12/4@Davidson131L79-63
12/13@South Carolina77L71-55
12/17@Col Charleston171L82-78
12/20@Richmond118L80-56
12/30ETSU129L74-49
1/3Wofford215L95-86
1/7@Mercer141L101-63
1/10W Carolina262W79-77
1/15@UNC Greensboro305L69-66
1/17@VMI354W82-68
1/21Furman164W77-75
1/23@ETSU129L84-55
1/24@ETSU1293%
1/29VMI35461%
1/31UNC Greensboro30541%
2/5@Samford25313%
2/7@Chattanooga26915%
2/11@W Carolina26215%
2/14Mercer14112%
2/19Samford25328%
2/21Chattanooga26932%
2/25@Furman1646%
2/28@Wofford2159%