NCAA Tournament March Madness

#228 FGCU

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

FGCU’s profile shows a handful of respectable moments — a road win at Samford and solid home wins over Rice and Oral Roberts plus a comfortable victory over Chattanooga — that are outweighed by a brutal road loss at Illinois, heavy setbacks at New Mexico and UCF, and repeated slips to league rivals Lipscomb and Austin Peay, so the committee will see few signature wins away from home and a resume with little margin for error; with the rest of the schedule filled mostly with Atlantic Sun opponents like Bellarmine, Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville, North Florida, and Stetson the Panthers can rack up conference victories but will gain almost no résumé juice from them, making the clearest route to the national tournament a run through the league tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@Illinois4L113-70
11/11Ga Southern245L95-94
11/15Chattanooga267W91-73
11/19@Samford249W77-62
11/24Oral Roberts330W93-88
11/25Rice237W78-63
11/26Kennesaw165L102-100
12/3@Florida Intl191L89-83
12/7FL Atlantic97L81-76
12/14@New Mexico42L75-59
12/20@UCF45L102-80
1/1@Cent Arkansas184L85-83
1/3@North Alabama334W72-55
1/8Austin Peay163L82-71
1/10Lipscomb150L84-77
1/15Queens NC188L85-74
1/17West Georgia329W90-72
1/22@Austin Peay163L83-62
1/23@Lipscomb150L86-71
1/29North Alabama33483%
1/31@Jacksonville28953%
2/5@E Kentucky26247%
2/7@Bellarmine29053%
2/11North Florida34085%
2/14Stetson32080%
2/19Jacksonville28974%
2/21Cent Arkansas18453%
2/26@North Florida34068%
2/28@Stetson32061%