NCAA Tournament March Madness

#247 Coastal Car

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Coastal Car’s placement tracks with how the résumé reads to a committee because the team pairs some credible road and neutral victories with a string of ugly losses that undercut an at-large case. Its best moments are wins away at Old Dominion and Marshall and a neutral victory over North Dakota, and it backed those up with tough wins at Winthrop and St Joseph’s PA that show it can grind out results away from home, but that promise is counterbalanced by a humiliating loss at Illinois St and lopsided defeats at Grand Canyon and in a neutral meeting with Ga Southern that expose inconsistent play against stronger opposition. With no truly marquee nonconference scalp the clearest path to the NCAA field is to secure the conference’s automatic berth by stringing together the kind of neutral-site wins that would erase the bad losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@W Michigan273L76-71
11/11Winthrop155W72-66
11/14@Jacksonville St209L74-67
11/21@W Illinois364W84-64
11/22(N)North Dakota275W75-58
11/23@Illinois St103L94-42
11/30Alabama A&M307W67-60
12/3@SC Upstate302L85-78
12/6@Winthrop155W88-84
12/13@Grand Canyon61L82-61
12/18@Appalachian St195L67-49
12/20@Old Dominion248W76-74
12/22@St Joseph's PA116W68-62
1/1Ga Southern235L82-81
1/3Georgia St310L89-71
1/8Old Dominion248L70-66
1/10Appalachian St195W67-62
1/14@Marshall208W85-83
1/17@Ga Southern235W79-75
1/22Texas St245W72-70
1/24Southern Miss218W85-67
1/29@South Alabama205L53-48
2/1@ULM351W83-79
2/4Arkansas St151L70-66
2/7Massachusetts196W94-91
2/12@Louisiana313W69-65
2/18James Madison213L67-65
2/21Marshall208W79-75
2/24@Georgia St310W76-71
2/27@James Madison213W69-68
3/7(N)Ga Southern235L96-72