NCAA Tournament March Madness

#275 East Carolina

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

East Carolina’s body of work makes the conference automatic bid the most realistic path because its few resume highlights are wins over modest opponents and a hard-fought road victory at North Texas, while a string of damaging losses away and at neutral sites to Richmond, UNC Wilmington, Michigan State and North Carolina have largely erased the value of those modest wins. The program has shown it can hang in league play with tight games against Temple and UAB, but it has also suffered ugly setbacks to mid-major opponents that committees view as resume killers and its nonconference slate produced no signature scalps. With upcoming chances at Florida Atlantic and at UAB and home opportunities against Temple, UTSA and Wichita State the team still has clear ways to rebuild its profile, yet without meaningful road or neutral victories the safest route onto the national field runs through winning the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Ga Southern245W92-89
11/8@Richmond116L87-72
11/18@UNC Wilmington117L85-60
11/21Charleston So227L77-65
11/25(N)Michigan St7L89-56
11/27(N)St Bonaventure146L67-58
12/2MD E Shore326W68-56
12/6UNC Greensboro308L82-78
12/11Appalachian St216L67-54
12/14Buffalo169W73-70
12/17Presbyterian277W74-53
12/22@North Carolina28L99-51
12/31Tulane194L79-70
1/7@Temple152L75-67
1/11UAB123L87-85
1/14@South Florida69L82-71
1/18Charlotte172L73-70
1/21@Wichita St96L77-60
1/23@North Texas149W63-59
1/28Rice237L83-77
2/1@FL Atlantic979%
2/7Temple15236%
2/11UT San Antonio34881%
2/14@Rice23731%
2/18Wichita St9621%
2/21@Charlotte17221%
2/25@UT San Antonio34862%
3/1Memphis10523%
3/4Tulsa5713%
3/5Tulsa5713%
3/8@UAB12313%