NCAA Tournament March Madness

#206 Samford

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Samford's résumé points to a path that runs through the Southern Conference tournament because the profile combines encouraging competitive road showings with a string of damaging away and neutral setbacks that selection committees tend to penalize. A competitive outing at Arkansas and road wins at Central Arkansas and ETSU alongside home victories over Wofford and Mercer show the team can win outside its building, but those wins came against modest opposition and do not replace the negative impression left by heavy losses at Utah Valley and VCU and neutral-site defeats against New Mexico State and FGCU. The remaining road dates at Citadel and Mercer and home opportunities with VMI and UNC Greensboro give Samford a clean window to polish its ledger, yet without a signature road or neutral victory the clearest, most reliable route to the NCAA field for this resume is to secure the conference's automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Tulane191L85-72
11/7S Carolina St358W82-72
11/12@TX Southern309W93-90
11/14@Arkansas18L79-75
11/16@Cent Arkansas163W84-77
11/19FGCU246L77-62
11/21@New Mexico St165L81-72
11/25(N)Georgia St293W78-63
11/26(N)Utah Valley86L89-45
12/5@VCU46L83-57
12/7Cornell144W93-90
1/1@VMI360W78-58
1/3@UNC Greensboro298L89-82
1/7W Carolina262W82-77
1/10@Chattanooga302L88-79
1/14Furman189L77-73
1/17ETSU141L76-75
1/21@Wofford225L88-78
1/24Chattanooga302W75-64
1/29@Furman189L78-73
2/1@W Carolina262W88-74
2/5Citadel351W78-64
2/7Mercer164W69-49
2/11Wofford225W97-80
2/14@ETSU141W82-72
2/19@Citadel35180%
2/21@Mercer16432%
2/26VMI36095%
2/28UNC Greensboro29879%