NCAA Tournament March Madness

#203 Furman

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Furman’s resume reads like a team that can win the league tournament or else fall short of a national bid because its season mixes eye-catching road and neutral victories with a handful of damaging non‑conference setbacks. The neutral win over Richmond and road victories at Elon, Manhattan, Chattanooga, VMI and Wofford are the program’s best evidence that it can win away from home, but losses at High Point and Northern Iowa and the neutral defeat to Illinois State undercut any claim to a robust at‑large case. Equally troubling are swingy conference results, with strong showings against the likes of Samford, Chattanooga and Mercer bookended by ugly home defeats and late losses at Mercer, ETSU and UNC Greensboro that raise consistency concerns. Given that ledger, the committee will reward conference tournament success far more than the résumé as built, so the automatic bid is realistically the clearest route to the field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)High Point93L97-71
11/7Troy158L64-61
11/14@Northern Iowa76L70-54
11/23Queens NC192W90-79
11/27(N)Richmond146W73-72
11/28(N)Illinois St104L72-65
12/3@Elon226W97-88
12/6Harvard154W79-69
12/18@Manhattan329W75-68
12/21Charleston So241W84-76
12/31Mercer180W74-72
1/3W Carolina234L80-77
1/7@Chattanooga299W78-67
1/10VMI360W69-48
1/14@Samford210W77-73
1/17Wofford251L74-70
1/21@Citadel348L77-75
1/23@UNC Greensboro302W89-66
1/29Samford210W78-73
2/1Chattanooga299W75-70
2/4@ETSU143L75-71
2/8UNC Greensboro302L67-64
2/11@Mercer180L69-64
2/14@VMI360W90-72
2/18ETSU143L78-69
2/21@Wofford251W76-67
2/25Citadel348W72-51
2/28@W Carolina234L86-67
3/7(N)Samford21051%