NCAA Tournament March Madness

#210 Samford

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Samford’s profile reads like a team that has earned respect inside its league but not enough headline victories to attract an at-large berth. The Bulldogs showed they can travel with a tight road test at Arkansas and picked up meaningful conference wins away at places such as Western Carolina and VMI while also knocking off Georgia State at a neutral site, yet those positive signs are undercut by damaging showings like the heavy neutral-site loss to Utah Valley and tough road defeats at VCU and New Mexico State plus disappointing nonconference setbacks at FGCU and Tulane. With quality wins concentrated inside the league and harmful results sprinkled through the nonconference slate the most realistic and clear path to the NCAA tournament is to secure the Southern Conference’s automatic bid.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Tulane211L85-72
11/7S Carolina St356W82-72
11/12@TX Southern307W93-90
11/14@Arkansas16L79-75
11/16@Cent Arkansas150W84-77
11/19FGCU240L77-62
11/21@New Mexico St183L81-72
11/25(N)Georgia St309W78-63
11/26(N)Utah Valley85L89-45
12/5@VCU45L83-57
12/7Cornell168W93-90
1/1@VMI360W78-58
1/3@UNC Greensboro301L89-82
1/7W Carolina234W82-77
1/10@Chattanooga299L88-79
1/14Furman203L77-73
1/17ETSU143L76-75
1/21@Wofford251L88-78
1/24Chattanooga299W75-64
1/29@Furman203L78-73
2/1@W Carolina234W88-74
2/5Citadel348W78-64
2/7Mercer180W69-49
2/11Wofford251W97-80
2/14@ETSU143W82-72
2/19@Citadel348W78-75
2/21@Mercer180L89-86
2/26VMI360W80-61
2/28UNC Greensboro301W87-78
3/7(N)Furman20349%