NCAA Tournament March Madness

#294 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 FL27L86-69
11/11@High Point92L85-64
11/15@VMI360W69-67
11/18@George Mason97L79-57
11/24(N)Bethune-Cookman243W69-64
11/25(N)Pacific111L68-53
12/2Florida A&M312W85-82
12/6@Florida Intl192L88-65
12/14@Texas A&M34L112-75
12/17@Florida A&M312L72-65
12/22@Florida St57L87-63
1/1@Lipscomb201L76-57
1/3@Austin Peay173L71-68
1/8Queens NC181L77-51
1/10West Georgia304W75-43
1/15@Cent Arkansas153L62-60
1/17@North Alabama343W90-68
1/22Bellarmine279L77-70
1/24E Kentucky296W81-76
1/29Lipscomb201W70-65
1/31FGCU244L68-49
2/5@Queens NC181L93-84
2/7@West Georgia304L87-73
2/11@Stetson305L67-62
2/14North Florida335W63-56
2/18@FGCU244L86-84
2/21Austin Peay173L65-61
2/26Stetson305W89-85
2/28@North Florida335W85-61
3/4(N)Bellarmine279L82-79