NCAA Tournament March Madness

#174 FGCU

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

FGCU’s résumé is built around some eye-catching nonconference wins and a particularly damaging trip to Illinois that leaves lingering questions. The road win at Samford and nonconference victories over Chattanooga, Rice and Oral Roberts demonstrate the team can win outside its building while the narrow loss at Ga Southern and setbacks to Florida Atlantic and Kennesaw expose inconsistency that the committee will penalize. Looming road tests at New Mexico and at UCF give the program a chance to erase the bad loss with statement wins but more realistically the path forward runs through Atlantic Sun play where home opportunities against Austin Peay, Lipscomb, North Alabama, Jacksonville, North Florida and Stetson represent the most direct way to finish strong and present a cleaner résumé to the committee.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Illinois12L113-70
11/11Ga Southern235L95-94
11/15Chattanooga221W91-73
11/19@Samford248W77-62
11/24Oral Roberts291W93-88
11/25Rice210W78-63
11/26Kennesaw168L102-100
12/3@Florida Intl177L89-83
12/7FL Atlantic117L81-76
12/14@New Mexico77L75-59
12/20@UCF539%
1/1@Cent Arkansas24952%
1/3@North Alabama23651%
1/8Austin Peay18664%
1/10Lipscomb13351%
1/15Queens NC20266%
1/17West Georgia30884%
1/22@Austin Peay18641%
1/24@Lipscomb13329%
1/29North Alabama23672%
1/31@Jacksonville29963%
2/5@E Kentucky26756%
2/7@Bellarmine28159%
2/11North Florida33388%
2/14Stetson34390%
2/19Jacksonville29982%
2/21Cent Arkansas24973%
2/26@North Florida33374%
2/28@Stetson34376%