NCAA Tournament March Madness

#293 Jacksonville

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Jacksonville projects as a team that must win the Atlantic Sun tournament to reach the NCAA field because its résumé simply lacks the kind of signature victories and neutral-site success the committee rewards. The program’s best moments — road wins at North Florida, North Alabama and VMI, a home victory over Lipscomb and a neutral win over Bethune-Cookman — are outweighed by damaging blowouts at Miami, Texas A&M and Florida State and by a heavy road loss at George Mason plus a home defeat to Queens. Conference play has been uneven with losses at league rivals such as FGCU and Austin Peay tempering the modest quality of its wins, so unless Jacksonville can add a marquee victory in the conference tournament the body of work will read as short on quality and marred by several bad losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Miami FL28L86-69
11/11@High Point93L85-64
11/15@VMI360W69-67
11/18@George Mason109L79-57
11/24(N)Bethune-Cookman235W69-64
11/25(N)Pacific113L68-53
12/2Florida A&M316W85-82
12/6@Florida Intl208L88-65
12/14@Texas A&M36L112-75
12/17@Florida A&M316L72-65
12/22@Florida St70L87-63
1/1@Lipscomb197L76-57
1/3@Austin Peay165L71-68
1/8Queens NC192L77-51
1/10West Georgia304W75-43
1/15@Cent Arkansas150L62-60
1/17@North Alabama341W90-68
1/22Bellarmine281L77-70
1/24E Kentucky294W81-76
1/29Lipscomb197W70-65
1/31FGCU240L68-49
2/5@Queens NC192L93-84
2/7@West Georgia304L87-73
2/11@Stetson303L67-62
2/14North Florida335W63-56
2/18@FGCU240L86-84
2/21Austin Peay165L65-61
2/26Stetson303W89-85
2/28@North Florida335W85-61
3/4(N)Bellarmine281L82-79