NCAA Tournament March Madness

#339 North Florida

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

North Florida’s resume is defined by a brutal nonconference slate that included trips to Florida, Tennessee, Gonzaga, Miami and Dayton where the team was overmatched and defensive lapses were obvious, while its most encouraging moments were competitive outings at Wofford and tight losses to Southern Miss and Prairie View that show the offense can hang with mid-tier opponents. Those heavy defeats on big stages leave almost no margin for error, so the conference run and the remaining slate — home dates and road tests at Lipscomb, Austin Peay, North Alabama and Central Arkansas plus chances against Bellarmine, Stetson, FGCU and Jacksonville — are the only places to manufacture the kind of road or neutral-site wins the committee values. Consistency away from home and avoiding more damaging losses in league play would reshape how the resume reads; without that, the lopsided nonconference results will continue to overshadow the handful of respectable outings that keep the possibility alive.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Florida13L104-64
11/12@Tennessee14L99-66
11/19@Wofford226L86-78
11/22(N)Southern Miss198L92-83
11/23(N)Prairie View299L85-82
12/2SIUE251L72-63
12/7@Gonzaga5L109-58
12/13@Dayton64L84-61
12/18@Charleston So220L113-90
12/21@Miami FL37L105-67
12/28Columbia136L90-82
1/1@Austin Peay19112%
1/3@Lipscomb1467%
1/8West Georgia31050%
1/10Queens NC21431%
1/15@North Alabama26420%
1/17@Cent Arkansas23617%
1/22E Kentucky26840%
1/24Bellarmine24636%
1/29Stetson34663%
1/31Lipscomb14619%
2/5@West Georgia31029%
2/7@Queens NC21414%
2/11@FGCU17410%
2/14@Jacksonville31730%
2/19Austin Peay19127%
2/21@Stetson34641%
2/26FGCU17424%
2/28Jacksonville31752%