NCAA Tournament March Madness

#169 FGCU

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

FGCU’s résumé is a study in contrasts. Road wins at Samford and at North Alabama and solid nonconference victories over Rice and Oral Roberts demonstrate the team can win away from home and beat respectable mid-major competition, but those credentials are dulled by a blowout loss at Illinois, difficult trips at New Mexico and UCF and damaging nonconference setbacks to Georgia Southern, Kennesaw, Florida International and Florida Atlantic. The remaining stretch of conference games at home and on the road against Austin Peay, Lipscomb, Queens NC, West Georgia, Jacksonville, Eastern Kentucky, Bellarmine, North Florida, Stetson and Central Arkansas offers clear opportunities to erase bad results and accumulate resume-building road and neutral-site wins, and how FGCU performs in those contests will determine whether the profile looks strong enough on its own or still depends on an automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Illinois9L113-70
11/11Ga Southern211L95-94
11/15Chattanooga278W91-73
11/19@Samford233W77-62
11/24Oral Roberts293W93-88
11/25Rice254W78-63
11/26Kennesaw178L102-100
12/3@Florida Intl160L89-83
12/7FL Atlantic105L81-76
12/14@New Mexico54L75-59
12/20@UCF45L102-80
1/1@Cent Arkansas223L85-83
1/3@North Alabama299W72-55
1/8Austin Peay19967%
1/10Lipscomb14356%
1/15Queens NC20869%
1/17West Georgia30083%
1/22@Austin Peay19945%
1/24@Lipscomb14334%
1/29North Alabama29983%
1/31@Jacksonville31770%
2/5@E Kentucky27160%
2/7@Bellarmine26659%
2/11North Florida34290%
2/14Stetson34691%
2/19Jacksonville31786%
2/21Cent Arkansas22370%
2/26@North Florida34277%
2/28@Stetson34679%