NCAA Tournament March Madness

#166 Furman

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Furman’s resume lacks a signature win and carries several bad losses that make the Southern Conference tournament the clearest path to the NCAA field; nonconference setbacks at a neutral site against High Point, at home to Troy, and on the road at Northern Iowa have undercut the value of neutral and road victories such as the Richmond neutral win and trips to Elon and Manhattan, while home wins over teams like Harvard do not erase blemishes from home losses to Wofford and Western Carolina or the road loss at Citadel. The committee will look for quality road or neutral results and while Furman has shown it can win away from home at Chattanooga, Samford, and UNC Greensboro, none of those wins rise to the level of a resume-changing victory, so the remaining slate against UNC Greensboro, Samford, Chattanooga, ETSU, Mercer, VMI, Wofford, Citadel and Western Carolina represents meaningful opportunities to improve but the most certain way to secure a berth is to capture the Southern Conference’s automatic spot.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)High Point94L97-71
11/7Troy113L64-61
11/14@Northern Iowa112L70-54
11/23Queens NC188W90-79
11/27(N)Richmond116W73-72
11/28(N)Illinois St84L72-65
12/3@Elon175W97-88
12/6Harvard183W79-69
12/18@Manhattan333W75-68
12/21Charleston So227W84-76
12/31Mercer141W74-72
1/3W Carolina260L80-77
1/7@Chattanooga267W78-67
1/10VMI354W69-48
1/14@Samford249W77-73
1/17Wofford217L74-70
1/21@Citadel352L77-75
1/23@UNC Greensboro308W89-66
1/29Samford24976%
2/1Chattanooga26780%
2/4@ETSU12630%
2/8UNC Greensboro30886%
2/11@Mercer14133%
2/14@VMI35485%
2/18ETSU12651%
2/21@Wofford21749%
2/25Citadel35294%
2/28@W Carolina26059%