NCAA Tournament March Madness

#272 Longwood

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Longwood’s profile leaves almost no plausible path into the bracket without winning its conference tournament because a heavy defeat at Pittsburgh and other lopsided road losses at Columbia and at American Univ blemish the nonconference résumé. Its best moments — a home win over Winthrop, road victories at Gardner Webb and at Charleston So and a strong home showing against Radford — prove it can beat quality league opponents, but those highlights are undermined by losses to MD E Shore and Delaware St, split results with Radford and Winthrop and repeated setbacks to UNC Asheville that expose inconsistency. A tight outing at Wake Forest is a useful out‑of‑conference signal but it does not erase the damage of the bad road blowouts. Because the signature wins are mostly inside the Big South while the most damaging defeats came outside it, the realistic route to the NCAA field runs through the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Pittsburgh101L78-60
11/12James Madison214W82-72
11/15Binghamton359W90-82
11/18MD E Shore346L83-82
11/23@Columbia189L95-70
11/28(N)Siena209L70-63
11/29(N)Maine347W65-61
11/30@American Univ243L92-66
12/6@Morgan St351W84-80
12/13Delaware St362L81-76
12/17@Wake Forest77L71-68
12/20@NC Central353W74-72
12/31Winthrop144W82-70
1/3@High Point93L80-67
1/7@UNC Asheville252L72-61
1/10Presbyterian274W77-70
1/17@Radford258L85-83
1/21Gardner Webb361W91-56
1/23Charleston So241W81-79
1/29@SC Upstate300L65-60
1/31High Point93L71-59
2/4@Gardner Webb361W86-66
2/7@Winthrop144L79-74
2/12UNC Asheville252L79-74
2/14SC Upstate300W82-75
2/19@Presbyterian274L72-65
2/21@Charleston So241W107-96
2/28Radford258W90-74
3/6(N)UNC Asheville252L85-82