NCAA Tournament March Madness

#191 Furman

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Projected seed: 15 (automatic qualifier)

Furman’s profile makes clear why its only reliable path to the NCAA tournament goes through the conference title: the team finished by delivering big neutral-site victories over Samford, UNC Greensboro and ETSU that demonstrate it can close when it matters, but those late wins are offset by damaging nonconference results, including a blowout at High Point, a tough trip to Northern Iowa and a neutral-site loss to Illinois State, and the résumé contains few true road or neutral signatures that selection committees prize. Solid work in league play only goes so far when earlier blemishes and losses away from home limit margin for error, so the most realistic way for this group to punch a ticket is to claim the automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)High Point92L97-71
11/7Troy143L64-61
11/14@Northern Iowa72L70-54
11/23Queens NC181W90-79
11/27(N)Richmond160W73-72
11/28(N)Illinois St103L72-65
12/3@Elon230W97-88
12/6Harvard152W79-69
12/18@Manhattan330W75-68
12/21Charleston So241W84-76
12/31Mercer190W74-72
1/3W Carolina229L80-77
1/7@Chattanooga301W78-67
1/10VMI360W69-48
1/14@Samford215W77-73
1/17Wofford253L74-70
1/21@Citadel347L77-75
1/23@UNC Greensboro300W89-66
1/29Samford215W78-73
2/1Chattanooga301W75-70
2/4@ETSU167L75-71
2/8UNC Greensboro300L67-64
2/11@Mercer190L69-64
2/14@VMI360W90-72
2/18ETSU167L78-69
2/21@Wofford253W76-67
2/25Citadel347W72-51
2/28@W Carolina229L86-67
3/7(N)Samford215W86-81
3/8(N)UNC Greensboro300W81-75
3/9(N)ETSU167W76-61