NCAA Tournament March Madness

#233 Coastal Car

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Coastal Car needs an automatic bid because its résumé is full of flashes but missing a true marquee win to outweigh several damaging losses; the resume includes road wins at Old Dominion, St. Joseph's and Marshall and a win at Winthrop plus a neutral victory over North Dakota, yet those highlights are undercut by a blowout at Illinois State and ugly road defeats at Grand Canyon and South Alabama and by conference setbacks to Georgia Southern, Georgia State and Arkansas State that a selection committee will mark against it. The nonconference slate never produced a scalp that would neutralize those blemishes, and while home dates with James Madison and Marshall and road trips to Georgia State and James Madison are clear chances to improve the profile, the safest path to the NCAA field for Coastal Car is to secure the automatic qualifier that comes with winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@W Michigan280L76-71
11/11Winthrop132W72-66
11/14@Jacksonville St210L74-67
11/21@W Illinois361W84-64
11/22(N)North Dakota291W75-58
11/23@Illinois St89L94-42
11/30Alabama A&M309W67-60
12/3@SC Upstate299L85-78
12/6@Winthrop132W88-84
12/13@Grand Canyon68L82-61
12/18@Appalachian St176L67-49
12/20@Old Dominion242W76-74
12/22@St Joseph's PA153W68-62
1/1Ga Southern279L82-81
1/3Georgia St293L89-71
1/8Old Dominion242L70-66
1/10Appalachian St176W67-62
1/14@Marshall170W85-83
1/17@Ga Southern279W79-75
1/22Texas St244W72-70
1/24Southern Miss241W85-67
1/29@South Alabama195L53-48
2/1@ULM354W83-79
2/4Arkansas St149L70-66
2/7Massachusetts183W94-91
2/12@Louisiana306W69-65
2/18James Madison22259%
2/21Marshall17048%
2/24@Georgia St29351%
2/27@James Madison22237%