NCAA Tournament March Madness

#252 UNC Asheville

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

UNC Asheville projects as a team that must win the Big South tournament to reach the field because its résumé offers too few meaningful victories and is punctured by damaging losses away from home, with solid moments like home wins over Lipscomb and Appalachian State, road victories at Radford and Gardner-Webb and a neutral-site success over UNC Greensboro outweighed by losses at Wichita State, NC State and UAB and surprising setbacks at Ga Southern, Presbyterian and High Point; those road defeats and a lack of marquee neutral wins leave little margin for error, so the conference tournament is the clear place to add the kind of neutral-site signature wins that would turn a thin résumé into a qualifier.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4@Wichita St89L75-58
11/8@Ga Southern250L93-90
11/11Lipscomb197W69-64
11/19@W Carolina234L80-73
11/25Tennessee St195L75-73
11/30Appalachian St181W67-55
12/2(N)UNC Greensboro302W82-77
12/6@NC State35L75-63
12/10Miami OH90L90-87
12/13St Thomas MN103L80-59
12/21@UAB119L72-47
12/31High Point93L87-69
1/3@Charleston So241L86-83
1/7Longwood272W72-61
1/10@Radford258W91-72
1/14@Presbyterian274L71-70
1/17Winthrop144L69-67
1/21@SC Upstate300W83-69
1/29Gardner Webb361W69-50
1/31@Winthrop144L84-71
2/4SC Upstate300W76-67
2/12@Longwood272W79-74
2/14Presbyterian274L58-57
2/19@High Point93L74-48
2/21Radford258W74-73
2/26@Gardner Webb361W77-71
2/28Charleston So241L92-75
3/6(N)Longwood272W85-82