NCAA Tournament March Madness

#234 Coastal Car

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Coastal Car has flashed the traits committees look for with resume-building road wins at Old Dominion, St. Joseph's, Marshall and Winthrop that prove it can win away from home, yet those moments are offset by damaging defeats such as the blowout at Illinois State and road losses at Grand Canyon and Appalachian State that undercut its overall profile; home setbacks to Old Dominion and Georgia State and a tight loss to Georgia Southern further muddy the picture and leave the team without a marquee neutral-site victory to tilt the resume in its favor. The remaining schedule includes several winnable conference opportunities at South Alabama, ULM, Arkansas State, Massachusetts, Louisiana and James Madison along with another meeting with Marshall and road tests at Georgia State and James Madison, but those games are more about preservation and incremental improvement than about producing the kind of signature win that would erase earlier damage. In short Coastal Car has shown it can grind out important road victories, however the combination of a handful of impressive away results, some very bad losses and a lack of a standout nonconference scalp means the practical path to the NCAA tournament runs through securing the conference’s automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@W Michigan266L76-71
11/11Winthrop119W72-66
11/14@Jacksonville St197L74-67
11/21@W Illinois357W84-64
11/22(N)North Dakota280W75-58
11/23@Illinois St84L94-42
11/30Alabama A&M294W67-60
12/3@SC Upstate298L85-78
12/6@Winthrop119W88-84
12/13@Grand Canyon75L82-61
12/18@Appalachian St216L67-49
12/20@Old Dominion225W76-74
12/22@St Joseph's PA157W68-62
1/1Ga Southern245L82-81
1/3Georgia St270L89-71
1/8Old Dominion225L70-66
1/10Appalachian St216W67-62
1/14@Marshall177W85-83
1/17@Ga Southern245W79-75
1/22Texas St282W72-70
1/24Southern Miss250W85-67
1/29@South Alabama20634%
1/31@ULM36079%
2/4Arkansas St15946%
2/7Massachusetts17950%
2/12@Louisiana33163%
2/18James Madison22961%
2/21Marshall17750%
2/24@Georgia St27048%
2/27@James Madison22938%