NCAA Tournament March Madness

#184 Cent Arkansas

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Cent Arkansas’s résumé reads like a team that will need the conference’s automatic berth because its best moments came against mid‑major opponents such as Eastern Washington and Arkansas Little Rock and it found a way to close tight home games against FGCU and Jacksonville, yet those positives are overwhelmed by heavy road blowouts at North Carolina and at Arkansas and by other tough losses away to Power Conference foes like Vanderbilt and SMU. The team has shown it can win on the road against mid‑major competition with victories at West Georgia and at Queens NC, but it lacks any quality neutral or true road wins over high‑major opponents that would grab a committee’s attention. With a stretch of conference games ahead that includes trips to league stalwarts and home dates with Bellarmine and Eastern Kentucky, those remaining chances are where Cent Arkansas must pile up resume‑building wins because otherwise the conference tournament becomes the only realistic path to the NCAA field.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@North Carolina28L94-54
11/11@Arkansas22L93-56
11/16Samford249L84-77
11/20@North Texas149L74-56
11/23E Washington233W92-65
11/25E Illinois309W81-60
11/29@ETSU126L80-57
12/3Ark Little Rock291W85-47
12/7@East Texas A&M295L75-68
12/13@Vanderbilt12L83-72
12/21@SMU37L99-82
1/1FGCU228W85-83
1/3Stetson320W93-73
1/8@Bellarmine290L84-78
1/10@E Kentucky262L79-75
1/15Jacksonville289W62-60
1/17North Florida340W98-69
1/22@West Georgia329W86-65
1/28@Queens NC188W100-90
1/31E Kentucky26276%
2/4North Alabama33488%
2/7@Lipscomb15032%
2/12Bellarmine29080%
2/14West Georgia32987%
2/19@Stetson32069%
2/21@FGCU22847%
2/25@Austin Peay16334%
2/28Queens NC18862%