NCAA Tournament March Madness

#188 Col Charleston

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Projected seed: 14 (automatic qualifier)

Charleston’s profile reads like a borderline résumé because its few high-quality moments are offset by a string of damaging losses. The neutral-site victory over Massachusetts and the road win at Evansville prove the team can close out meaningful games away from home and the comfortable result over South Carolina State is a needed out-of-conference plus. Those bright spots are undermined by bad defeats at Liberty and at Belmont and by nonconference setbacks to Florida Atlantic, Drake, and Yale that expose a defense that has struggled to contain better opponents. The conference slate still offers multiple opportunities to change the narrative, most notably a road date at South Florida and a home test against William & Mary along with several road games at league rivals where wins would validate the resume. Until Charleston turns a couple of those chances into signature road or neutral wins or makes a deep run in the league tournament the committee will view the body of work as thin on top-end victories and blemished by too many avoidable losses.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Liberty104L90-75
11/8(N)FL Atlantic117L94-77
11/14S Carolina St353W88-61
11/17Drake121L71-62
11/21(N)Massachusetts187W69-65
11/23(N)Yale77L74-63
11/24(N)Evansville294W78-59
11/30Belmont85L96-73
12/10@South Florida7913%
12/14Charlotte19361%
12/17Citadel36394%
12/21@N Kentucky17937%
12/29Drexel27575%
12/31@Elon21443%
1/5William & Mary12244%
1/10Hampton21666%
1/15@Towson13125%
1/17@Stony Brook21945%
1/22Campbell21566%
1/24Elon21465%
1/29@Hofstra13626%
1/31@Northeastern23046%
2/5NC A&T32985%
2/9UNC Wilmington10237%
2/12Hofstra13646%
2/14@Campbell21544%
2/19@NC A&T32968%
2/21Monmouth NJ21365%
2/26@Hampton21644%
2/28@UNC Wilmington10218%
3/1@UNC Wilmington10218%