NCAA Tournament March Madness

#283 W Carolina

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

W Carolina’s resume reads like a team that has been badly tested at the high-major level and has been too up-and-down inside its league to earn an at-large look. Blowout defeats on the road at programs such as Duke, Cincinnati, Virginia Tech and Georgia erased nonconference momentum and left the Catamounts with just a handful of quality moments, the most notable being a gritty road victory at Furman and conference wins over ETSU and UNC Asheville. Those positives are undermined by damaging road losses at league opponents including Lipscomb, Samford and Citadel that selection committees care about, and the remainder of the schedule mostly offers home games against inferior foes where wins will shore up the record but not create marquee résumé gains. With only a few true resume-repairing chances away from home, the clearest path to the national field for this group runs through winning the Southern’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Cincinnati54L94-63
11/8@Duke3L95-54
11/16Stetson323W76-65
11/19UNC Asheville217W80-73
11/22@Lipscomb160L83-62
11/29@High Point96L93-73
12/6@SC Upstate294L78-67
12/11@Virginia Tech56L96-74
12/18@Georgia26L112-82
12/31Wofford223L79-74
1/3@Furman174W80-77
1/7@Samford257L82-77
1/10@Citadel352L79-77
1/14ETSU134W72-68
1/17Chattanooga260L90-82
1/21@Mercer139L88-76
1/24VMI35080%
1/29@ETSU13414%
1/31Samford25755%
2/4@UNC Greensboro29542%
2/7@Wofford22327%
2/11Citadel35282%
2/14@Chattanooga26034%
2/18UNC Greensboro29564%
2/21@VMI35061%
2/25Mercer13931%
2/28Furman17439%