NCAA Tournament March Madness

#334 North Florida

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

North Florida’s profile reads like an aggressive schedule that hasn’t yet produced a defining victory, with the team’s best moments coming in tight neutral-site showings against Southern Miss and Prairie View and a competitive game at Wofford that demonstrated the ability to hang with solid mid-major opponents. The flip side is a string of damaging road performances on trips to Florida, Tennessee and Gonzaga that exposed defensive shortcomings and erased any resume-building benefit those high-profile tests might have offered. What remains is a mix of high-visibility nonconference opportunities at Dayton, Miami and Charleston Southern and a conference slate that includes road dates at Lipscomb and FGCU and home dates with Stetson, Bellarmine and Jacksonville, so the Ospreys still have clear chances to add quality road and neutral results, but until one of those chances converts into a signature win the profile looks like a team whose most realistic route to the field runs through the conference tournament.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/6@Florida12L104-64
11/12@Tennessee16L99-66
11/19@Wofford210L86-78
11/22(N)Southern Miss207L92-83
11/23(N)Prairie View298L85-82
12/2SIUE198L72-63
12/7@Gonzaga30%
12/13@Dayton672%
12/18@Charleston So29027%
12/21@Miami FL341%
12/28Columbia13219%
1/1@Austin Peay17913%
1/3@Lipscomb15711%
1/8West Georgia28246%
1/10Queens NC18730%
1/15@North Alabama22017%
1/17@Cent Arkansas25021%
1/22E Kentucky26844%
1/24Bellarmine28346%
1/29Stetson34264%
1/31Lipscomb15725%
2/5@West Georgia28225%
2/7@Queens NC18714%
2/11@FGCU16812%
2/14@Jacksonville27124%
2/19Austin Peay17929%
2/21@Stetson34242%
2/26FGCU16827%
2/28Jacksonville27144%