NCAA Tournament March Madness

#156 Furman

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Furman's resume has a clear contour: a neutral-site win over Richmond gives them a resume-defining victory away from campus and a gritty road triumph at Elon shows they can close tough environments, but heavy neutral and road setbacks to High Point, Northern Iowa and Illinois State reveal an inconsistency that selection committees will weigh heavily. The rest of the Southern schedule hands them multiple straightforward home opportunities against VMI and Citadel and a string of true road tests at Chattanooga, Mercer, ETSU and Wofford that are the most important chances to repair the damage; winning away from campus in those spots would validate the Richmond scalp while further slips on the road would compound the harm of the early nonconference losses. Overall the big-picture story is a team with a standout win and clear vulnerabilities whose ultimate standing hinges on how it performs in the upcoming neutral and road tests.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)High Point87L97-71
11/7Troy145L64-61
11/14@Northern Iowa91L70-54
11/23Queens NC189W90-79
11/27(N)Richmond96W73-72
11/28(N)Illinois St116L72-65
12/3@Elon213W97-88
12/6Harvard20269%
12/18@Manhattan30567%
12/21Charleston So29082%
12/31Mercer17265%
1/3W Carolina25577%
1/7@Chattanooga20748%
1/10VMI33990%
1/14@Samford24055%
1/17Wofford21070%
1/21@Citadel36387%
1/24@UNC Greensboro29264%
1/29Samford24075%
2/1Chattanooga20770%
2/4@ETSU11325%
2/8UNC Greensboro29282%
2/11@Mercer17242%
2/14@VMI33977%
2/18ETSU11345%
2/21@Wofford21049%
2/25Citadel36395%
2/28@W Carolina25557%