NCAA Tournament March Madness

#182 Col Charleston

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Charleston’s profile reads like a borderline résumé because its few high-quality moments are offset by a string of damaging losses. The neutral-site victory over Massachusetts and the road win at Evansville prove the team can close out meaningful games away from home and the comfortable result over South Carolina State is a needed out-of-conference plus. Those bright spots are undermined by bad defeats at Liberty and at Belmont and by nonconference setbacks to Florida Atlantic, Drake, and Yale that expose a defense that has struggled to contain better opponents. The conference slate still offers multiple opportunities to change the narrative, most notably a road date at South Florida and a home test against William & Mary along with several road games at league rivals where wins would validate the resume. Until Charleston turns a couple of those chances into signature road or neutral wins or makes a deep run in the league tournament the committee will view the body of work as thin on top-end victories and blemished by too many avoidable losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Liberty113L90-75
11/8(N)FL Atlantic118L94-77
11/14S Carolina St361W88-61
11/17Drake126L71-62
11/21(N)Massachusetts177W69-65
11/23(N)Yale78L74-63
11/24(N)Evansville281W78-59
11/30Belmont74L96-73
12/10@South Florida8415%
12/14Charlotte20265%
12/17Citadel36294%
12/21@N Kentucky19041%
12/29Drexel28477%
12/31@Elon17137%
1/5William & Mary12746%
1/10Hampton22168%
1/15@Towson14130%
1/17@Stony Brook20544%
1/22Campbell21267%
1/24Elon17159%
1/29@Hofstra11923%
1/31@Northeastern21045%
2/5NC A&T32084%
2/9UNC Wilmington10539%
2/12Hofstra11943%
2/14@Campbell21245%
2/19@NC A&T32067%
2/21Monmouth NJ21367%
2/26@Hampton22146%
2/28@UNC Wilmington10520%
3/1@UNC Wilmington10520%