NCAA Tournament March Madness

#335 Georgia St

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Georgia State’s resume is weighed down by a string of nonconference setbacks and a lack of marquee victories, and that combination explains the current placement. Road trips to Cincinnati and Arizona State produced competitive efforts but still ended in losses, and neutral-site setbacks to Samford and New Mexico State did little to add a résumé-enhancing result. The profile also contains a particularly ugly loss at South Dakota State and a bad outing at Eastern Michigan that the committee will not overlook, even though a tight home loss to Presbyterian showed the team can compete in close games. The rest of the schedule offers mostly modest opportunities — home dates with Appalachian State and Coastal Carolina and a series of league road tests at Marshall, Old Dominion, James Madison and Louisiana — but few obvious chances to snatch a résumé-defining neutral or true road victory. With few signature wins and several damaging defeats on the ledger, Georgia State’s clearest path to changing the committee’s view runs through a strong showing in the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@E Michigan185L71-49
11/7@Cincinnati73L74-64
11/10Presbyterian261L63-61
11/17@Arizona St82L75-62
11/21@S Dakota St163L105-58
11/25(N)Samford240L78-63
11/26(N)New Mexico St119L77-58
12/2@Mercer172L78-67
12/5@Kennesaw16912%
12/6@Kennesaw16912%
12/13Jacksonville St23538%
12/18@Ga Southern22518%
12/20@Appalachian St29628%
12/31@Marshall17012%
1/3@Coastal Car24220%
1/8Appalachian St29650%
1/10Marshall17027%
1/17@ULM35550%
1/22Southern Miss20432%
1/24Arkansas St15124%
1/29@Louisiana32636%
1/31@South Alabama16712%
2/4Troy14521%
2/12@James Madison17713%
2/14@Old Dominion22017%
2/19Ga Southern22536%
2/21James Madison17728%
2/24Coastal Car24239%
2/27Old Dominion22035%