NCAA Tournament March Madness

#244 FGCU

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

FGCU's résumé reads like a team that can beat midlevel opponents but has not produced the marquee wins a committee rewards. Its best moments came in a road victory at Samford and a neutral-site surge that included wins over North Alabama and Lipscomb, yet those highlights are offset by ugly road losses at Illinois, New Mexico and UCF and by costly setbacks to conference foes such as Lipscomb and Austin Peay both home and away. The nonconference slate showed ambition without signature results and conference play revealed troubling inconsistency, a narrative reinforced by a neutral-site defeat to Central Arkansas. With so few quality road or neutral victories and several damaging losses, the surest path for FGCU to reach the NCAA tournament is to secure the automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Illinois7L113-70
11/11Ga Southern235L95-94
11/15Chattanooga301W91-73
11/19@Samford215W77-62
11/24Oral Roberts309W93-88
11/25Rice226W78-63
11/26Kennesaw163L102-100
12/3@Florida Intl194L89-83
12/7FL Atlantic129L81-76
12/14@New Mexico50L75-59
12/20@UCF54L102-80
1/1@Cent Arkansas153L85-83
1/3@North Alabama343W72-55
1/8Austin Peay173L82-71
1/10Lipscomb200L84-77
1/15Queens NC181L85-74
1/17West Georgia304W90-72
1/22@Austin Peay173L83-62
1/23@Lipscomb200L86-71
1/29North Alabama343W72-64
1/31@Jacksonville295W68-49
2/5@E Kentucky297L76-74
2/7@Bellarmine278L81-65
2/11North Florida335W90-81
2/14Stetson303W78-76
2/18Jacksonville295W86-84
2/21Cent Arkansas153W75-71
2/26@North Florida335L76-70
2/28@Stetson303L78-63
3/4(N)North Alabama343W69-58
3/6(N)Lipscomb200W77-53
3/7(N)Cent Arkansas153L73-63