NCAA Tournament March Madness

#310 Jacksonville

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Jacksonville’s résumé points to the automatic-bid route because its best moments — a gritty road victory at VMI, an honest road win at North Alabama, a home triumph over Lipscomb and a neutral-site win over Bethune-Cookman — are modest and have been overwhelmed by ugly losses at power-conference stops such as Miami, Texas A&M and Florida State and by damaging neutral and road setbacks at Pacific and George Mason that undermine an at-large case. The rest of the schedule hands the team conference chances at places like Stetson and FGCU plus home tests against Austin Peay and North Florida that can polish the profile but cannot recreate the value of a marquee nonconference road or neutral victory, so the cleanest path to the NCAA field runs through taking the conference crown.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Miami FL37L86-69
11/11@High Point92L85-64
11/15@VMI360W69-67
11/18@George Mason96L79-57
11/24(N)Bethune-Cookman226W69-64
11/25(N)Pacific105L68-53
12/2Florida A&M334W85-82
12/6@Florida Intl202L88-65
12/14@Texas A&M36L112-75
12/17@Florida A&M334L72-65
12/22@Florida St79L87-63
1/1@Lipscomb173L76-57
1/3@Austin Peay140L71-68
1/8Queens NC203L77-51
1/10West Georgia321W75-43
1/15@Cent Arkansas163L62-60
1/17@North Alabama343W90-68
1/22Bellarmine273L77-70
1/24E Kentucky271W81-76
1/29Lipscomb173W70-65
1/31FGCU246L68-49
2/5@Queens NC203L93-84
2/7@West Georgia321L87-73
2/11@Stetson323L67-62
2/12@Stetson32343%
2/14North Florida337W63-56
2/19@FGCU24624%
2/21Austin Peay14024%
2/26Stetson32365%
2/28@North Florida33749%