NCAA Tournament March Madness

#356 Gardner Webb

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Gardner-Webb’s profile reads like a team that has been overmatched away from home against major-conference opponents such as Minnesota, Clemson, DePaul and Richmond and that suffered a damaging neutral-site loss to Navy, so the resume lacks the signature road or neutral victories committees prize. The team’s more encouraging moments have come in competitive outings against mid-major opponents, most notably the games with Southeastern Louisiana and Georgia Southern, but those results don’t offset the string of one-sided defeats in hostile environments. What remains are conference home dates against Wofford, Charleston Southern, Radford, Presbyterian and SC Upstate and a slate of conference road tests at places like Winthrop, High Point, Charleston Southern, Longwood and UNC Asheville, opportunities to pick up the kind of wins that would change the narrative. Given how much weight is placed on quality wins away from home and how damaging recurring blowouts look, the combination of heavy road losses, a lack of marquee victories and only modest in-conference chances to rebuild explains why the team sits where it does.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Minnesota115L87-60
11/7@Clemson26L97-59
11/15@Elon171L95-84
11/18@DePaul130L93-62
11/22@Richmond100L102-67
11/26(N)Navy196L84-51
11/28(N)SE Louisiana282L76-68
11/29@UNC Wilmington105L88-62
12/3@Queens NC189L107-74
12/6Ga Southern238L88-84
12/15Wofford25328%
12/21@Tennessee180%
12/31Charleston So26730%
1/3@Winthrop1143%
1/7@High Point881%
1/14Radford25228%
1/17Presbyterian26630%
1/21@Longwood29818%
1/24SC Upstate25829%
1/29@UNC Asheville2069%
1/31@Charleston So26714%
2/4Longwood29837%
2/7@Presbyterian26614%
2/12Winthrop1148%
2/14@High Point881%
2/19@Radford25213%
2/26UNC Asheville20622%
2/28@SC Upstate25813%