NCAA Tournament March Madness

#293 SC Upstate

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

SC Upstate looks like a team that will have to secure the conference's automatic berth because its resume is a contrast of a few eye-catching road victories and a longer string of damaging defeats. Road wins at Fresno State and at Charleston Southern and solid home results against Longwood and NC Central are the kind of wins that help, but they are outweighed by a blowout home loss to Winthrop, wet‑blanket results on the road against major‑conference opponents North Carolina and Nebraska, and an inconsistent conference road ledger that undermines credentials. A narrow loss earlier at Gardner‑Webb and a return trip there to finish the schedule offer a concrete chance to erase a blemish, but until the team supplements its handful of nonconference road scalps with a signature road or neutral-site victory over a recognized opponent it will be viewed as a squad that needs the automatic path.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Cal Baptist122L87-75
11/5@Fresno St120W67-66
11/15@UNC Wilmington103L73-60
11/19Tennessee Tech303L88-84
11/21@West Georgia307L72-64
11/25NC Central352W82-67
11/29@Nebraska12L72-63
12/3Coastal Car230W85-78
12/6W Carolina251W78-67
12/13@North Carolina28L80-62
12/16@S Carolina St358W78-72
12/20@Youngstown St200L74-65
12/31Radford241L76-69
1/3@Presbyterian280L86-77
1/10Winthrop139L71-50
1/14@Charleston So254W86-81
1/17@High Point92L89-69
1/21UNC Asheville234L83-69
1/23@Gardner Webb362L67-65
1/29Longwood278W65-60
2/4@UNC Asheville234L76-67
2/7Charleston So254W100-94
2/12High Point92L95-70
2/14@Longwood278L82-75
2/19@Winthrop139L68-64
2/21Presbyterian280W76-74
2/26@Radford241L71-59
2/28Gardner Webb36290%