NCAA Tournament March Madness

#260 W Carolina

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

W Carolina’s season has been defined more by damaging losses than by heavyweight wins so the only secure path to the NCAA tournament is to win the Southern Conference tournament. Nonconference road trips to Duke, Cincinnati, Georgia and Virginia Tech produced lopsided defeats that will loom large to a committee and they have dropped multiple true road games at conference peers such as Lipscomb, High Point, Samford, Citadel and Mercer, which blunts their résumé even further. Their best moments are real but sparse, highlighted by a gritty road victory at Furman and respectable home results against UNC Asheville and ETSU, while a blowout home loss to Chattanooga and tight defeats away have undercut their case. The remaining schedule offers chances to rebuild with home dates against Samford and Citadel and neutral or road tests at UNC Greensboro, Wofford and Chattanooga plus a home meeting with Furman, but without a signature win to erase those earlier bad losses an at-large ticket looks unlikely and the automatic berth is the clearest route.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Cincinnati56L94-63
11/8@Duke3L95-54
11/16Stetson320W76-65
11/19UNC Asheville218W80-73
11/22@Lipscomb150L83-62
11/29@High Point94L93-73
12/6@SC Upstate298L78-67
12/11@Virginia Tech55L96-74
12/18@Georgia34L112-82
12/31Wofford217L79-74
1/3@Furman166W80-77
1/7@Samford249L82-77
1/10@Citadel352L79-77
1/14ETSU126W72-68
1/17Chattanooga267L90-82
1/21@Mercer141L88-76
1/24VMI354W88-58
1/29@ETSU12615%
1/31Samford24958%
2/4@UNC Greensboro30849%
2/7@Wofford21730%
2/11Citadel35286%
2/14@Chattanooga26740%
2/18UNC Greensboro30871%
2/21@VMI35469%
2/25Mercer14135%
2/28Furman16641%