NCAA Tournament March Madness

#303 SC Upstate

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

SC Upstate’s résumé tells a straightforward story: the road victory at Fresno State stands out as a genuine signature moment and their competitive road trips to Nebraska and North Carolina show the roster can step up away from home, but those flashes are outweighed by a string of damaging results in league play including a home shellacking by Winthrop and painful road losses at High Point and UNC Asheville that undercut any at-large case. The team has collected some entertaining nonconference and home wins, yet neutral-site and true road success is sparse and the recent narrow loss to Gardner–Webb on a neutral floor highlights how thin the margin for error has become. Given the paucity of quality head-to-head victories and the accumulation of bad losses, the only realistic path to the NCAA field for this group is to seize the Big South tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Cal Baptist112L87-75
11/5@Fresno St131W67-66
11/15@UNC Wilmington109L73-60
11/19Tennessee Tech314L88-84
11/21@West Georgia304L72-64
11/25NC Central353W82-67
11/29@Nebraska12L72-63
12/3Coastal Car247W85-78
12/6W Carolina228W78-67
12/13@North Carolina31L80-62
12/16@S Carolina St356W78-72
12/20@Youngstown St215L74-65
12/31Radford257L76-69
1/3@Presbyterian270L86-77
1/10Winthrop155L71-50
1/14@Charleston So242W86-81
1/17@High Point92L89-69
1/21UNC Asheville246L83-69
1/23@Gardner Webb361L67-65
1/29Longwood271W65-60
2/4@UNC Asheville246L76-67
2/7Charleston So242W100-94
2/12High Point92L95-70
2/14@Longwood271L82-75
2/19@Winthrop155L68-64
2/21Presbyterian270W76-74
2/26@Radford257L71-59
2/28Gardner Webb361W71-61
3/4(N)Gardner Webb361L65-64