NCAA Tournament March Madness

#229 Coastal Car

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Coastal Car’s resume lands them on the outside looking in because their brightest moments — road wins at Marshall and at James Madison plus solid results against Winthrop and Old Dominion — are legitimate but limited, and those positives are erased by ugly losses at Illinois State and Grand Canyon and damaging home setbacks to Georgia State that a selection committee will view as red flags. The nonconference slate yielded no marquee neutral-site victory and most of the meaningful wins came at home or versus middling opponents, so the résumé reads as a string of close conference wins rather than a portfolio of quality victories. With committees placing extra value on true road and neutral success while penalizing bad losses, Coastal Car’s clearest path into the NCAA field runs through the Sun Belt’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@W Michigan275L76-71
11/11Winthrop144W72-66
11/14@Jacksonville St207L74-67
11/21@W Illinois364W84-64
11/22(N)North Dakota282W75-58
11/23@Illinois St104L94-42
11/30Alabama A&M298W67-60
12/3@SC Upstate300L85-78
12/6@Winthrop144W88-84
12/13@Grand Canyon63L82-61
12/18@Appalachian St181L67-49
12/20@Old Dominion248W76-74
12/22@St Joseph's PA127W68-62
1/1Ga Southern250L82-81
1/3Georgia St310L89-71
1/8Old Dominion248L70-66
1/10Appalachian St181W67-62
1/14@Marshall196W85-83
1/17@Ga Southern250W79-75
1/22Texas St244W72-70
1/24Southern Miss221W85-67
1/29@South Alabama206L53-48
2/1@ULM350W83-79
2/4Arkansas St153L70-66
2/7Massachusetts198W94-91
2/12@Louisiana315W69-65
2/18James Madison214L67-65
2/21Marshall196W79-75
2/24@Georgia St310W76-71
2/27@James Madison214W69-68