NCAA Tournament March Madness

#188 Furman

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Furman looks like a team whose best route into the NCAA field is to win the Southern tournament because the résumé mixes a handful of meaningful wins with a string of damaging defeats that blindside any at-large argument. The resume is buoyed by a neutral-site win over Richmond, a home victory over Harvard and a gritty road triumph at UNC Greensboro that show the program can beat quality opponents, but those moments are offset by an ugly neutral loss to High Point, a missed opportunity at Northern Iowa and troublesome conference road setbacks at Mercer, Wofford and Citadel that undermine consistency. The remaining slate against ETSU, a road trip to Wofford, a home date with Citadel and a finish at Western Carolina gives Furman concrete chances to repair the profile, yet most of those opponents are not marquee enough to erase the earlier blemishes so the surefire path to the field still runs through an automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)High Point92L97-71
11/7Troy137L64-61
11/14@Northern Iowa88L70-54
11/23Queens NC204W90-79
11/27(N)Richmond135W73-72
11/28(N)Illinois St89L72-65
12/3@Elon190W97-88
12/6Harvard165W79-69
12/18@Manhattan329W75-68
12/21Charleston So246W84-76
12/31Mercer164W74-72
1/3W Carolina262L80-77
1/7@Chattanooga302W78-67
1/10VMI360W69-48
1/14@Samford205W77-73
1/17Wofford226L74-70
1/21@Citadel351L77-75
1/23@UNC Greensboro298W89-66
1/29Samford205W78-73
2/1Chattanooga302W75-70
2/4@ETSU140L75-71
2/8UNC Greensboro298L67-64
2/11@Mercer164L69-64
2/14@VMI360W90-72
2/18ETSU14051%
2/21@Wofford22648%
2/25Citadel35193%
2/28@W Carolina26255%