NCAA Tournament March Madness

#273 SC Upstate

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

SC Upstate’s profile is coherently inconsistent: the resume is bolstered by a marquee road victory at Fresno State and solid home wins over Coastal Carolina and Western Carolina, and it shows willingness to chase top competition with trips to Nebraska and North Carolina, but that promise is undercut by puzzling defeats at Tennessee Tech and at West Georgia and by damaging conference setbacks at Radford and Presbyterian. The committee will reward the road win and the competitiveness on hostile floors while penalizing the bad losses and uneven play away from home, so the outcome of upcoming league tests matters a great deal. Home dates with Winthrop and Longwood give an opportunity to build quality wins and repeated chances against Gardner Webb and UNC Asheville offer ways to stabilize the resume, yet trips to Charleston Southern and High Point loom as danger games that could undo that work. Put bluntly, the team has shown flashes that justify consideration but must avoid further bad losses and pick up tiebreaking wins away from home to feel secure.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Cal Baptist142L87-75
11/5@Fresno St146W67-66
11/15@UNC Wilmington117L73-60
11/19Tennessee Tech307L88-84
11/21@West Georgia301L72-64
11/25NC Central349W82-67
11/29@Nebraska21L72-63
12/3Coastal Car258W85-78
12/6W Carolina266W78-67
12/13@North Carolina27L80-62
12/16@S Carolina St359W78-72
12/20@Youngstown St199L74-65
12/31Radford231L76-69
1/3@Presbyterian294L86-77
1/10Winthrop15236%
1/14@Charleston So22528%
1/17@High Point857%
1/21UNC Asheville25056%
1/24@Gardner Webb35872%
1/29Longwood29165%
2/4@UNC Asheville25034%
2/7Charleston So22550%
2/12High Point8517%
2/14@Longwood29143%
2/19@Winthrop15218%
2/21Presbyterian29465%
2/26@Radford23130%
2/28Gardner Webb35887%