Preseason Rankings
Villanova
Big East
2019-20
Overall
Predictive Rating+16.1#11
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace61.4#334
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+8.9#11
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+7.2#20
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 2.9% 2.9% 0.5%
#1 Seed 12.6% 12.7% 2.9%
Top 2 Seed 26.0% 26.2% 6.9%
Top 4 Seed 47.9% 48.4% 15.1%
Top 6 Seed 63.4% 63.9% 25.8%
NCAA Tourney Bid 85.7% 86.0% 56.5%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 80.5% 81.0% 52.5%
Average Seed 4.6 4.6 6.6
.500 or above 95.4% 95.7% 74.1%
.500 or above in Conference 88.3% 88.6% 68.0%
Conference Champion 36.3% 36.5% 16.4%
Last Place in Conference 1.2% 1.1% 9.1%
First Four2.1% 2.1% 4.4%
First Round84.8% 85.2% 54.6%
Second Round67.2% 67.6% 36.6%
Sweet Sixteen40.8% 41.1% 16.4%
Elite Eight22.0% 22.2% 9.0%
Final Four11.3% 11.4% 4.7%
Championship Game5.5% 5.5% 1.5%
National Champion2.6% 2.6% 0.8%

Next Game: Army (Home) - 98.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 3 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a3 - 43 - 4
Quad 1b4 - 26 - 6
Quad 26 - 213 - 8
Quad 36 - 119 - 8
Quad 44 - 023 - 8


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 05, 2019 244   Army W 81-57 99%    
  Nov 13, 2019 14   @ Ohio St. L 65-67 44%    
  Nov 16, 2019 217   Ohio W 80-58 98%    
  Nov 21, 2019 174   Middle Tennessee W 76-59 94%    
  Dec 01, 2019 189   La Salle W 80-59 97%    
  Dec 04, 2019 98   Penn W 75-60 90%    
  Dec 07, 2019 221   @ Saint Joseph's W 77-61 92%    
  Dec 14, 2019 240   Delaware W 76-55 96%    
  Dec 21, 2019 4   Kansas L 71-72 49%    
  Dec 30, 2019 23   Xavier W 70-64 71%    
  Jan 04, 2020 27   @ Marquette W 71-70 53%    
  Jan 07, 2020 37   @ Creighton W 72-70 56%    
  Jan 11, 2020 54   Georgetown W 79-70 78%    
  Jan 14, 2020 97   DePaul W 79-64 89%    
  Jan 18, 2020 73   Connecticut W 76-64 84%    
  Jan 21, 2020 56   Butler W 72-62 79%    
  Jan 25, 2020 36   @ Providence W 68-66 56%    
  Jan 28, 2020 93   @ St. John's W 75-67 76%    
  Feb 01, 2020 37   Creighton W 75-67 74%    
  Feb 05, 2020 56   @ Butler W 69-65 62%    
  Feb 08, 2020 17   Seton Hall W 72-67 67%    
  Feb 12, 2020 27   Marquette W 74-67 71%    
  Feb 16, 2020 83   @ Temple W 73-66 71%    
  Feb 19, 2020 97   @ DePaul W 76-67 77%    
  Feb 22, 2020 23   @ Xavier W 68-67 52%    
  Feb 26, 2020 93   St. John's W 78-64 88%    
  Feb 29, 2020 36   Providence W 71-63 74%    
  Mar 04, 2020 17   @ Seton Hall L 69-70 48%    
  Mar 07, 2020 54   @ Georgetown W 76-73 61%    
Projected Record 21 - 8 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big East Finish

0-18 1-17 2-16 3-15 4-14 5-13 6-12 7-11 8-10 9-9 10-8 11-7 12-6 13-5 14-4 15-3 16-2 17-1 18-0 Total
1st 0.0 0.1 0.9 3.5 7.4 9.2 7.9 5.4 1.9 36.3 1st
2nd 0.0 0.1 1.5 4.5 6.7 4.7 1.8 0.3 19.6 2nd
3rd 0.1 1.4 4.3 5.3 2.1 0.4 0.1 13.6 3rd
4th 0.1 1.2 3.7 3.8 1.1 0.1 10.1 4th
5th 0.1 0.9 3.2 2.4 0.7 0.0 7.3 5th
6th 0.1 0.7 2.1 1.9 0.4 0.0 5.2 6th
7th 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.5 1.2 0.2 0.0 3.6 7th
8th 0.0 0.1 0.4 1.0 0.7 0.2 0.0 2.4 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 1.3 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.6 10th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.1 2.0 3.1 4.5 6.6 8.1 10.3 11.8 12.4 12.5 11.0 8.2 5.4 1.9 Total



Big East Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
18-0 100.0% 1.9    1.9
17-1 100.0% 5.4    5.4 0.0
16-2 96.6% 7.9    7.2 0.7
15-3 83.0% 9.2    6.8 2.2 0.1
14-4 59.0% 7.4    4.4 2.5 0.5 0.0
13-5 28.2% 3.5    1.1 1.6 0.7 0.1
12-6 7.9% 0.9    0.2 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.7% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.1% 0.0    0.0
9-9 0.0%
Total 36.3% 36.3 26.9 7.6 1.5 0.2 0.0 0.0



NCAA Tournament Selection

Conf RecordRecord ChanceTourney
Bid
AutoAt-LargeAvg
Seed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 No Bid At-Large if not Auto
18-0 1.9% 100.0% 67.7% 32.3% 1.3 1.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-1 5.4% 100.0% 58.6% 41.4% 1.4 3.5 1.6 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-2 8.2% 100.0% 51.3% 48.7% 1.8 3.7 3.1 1.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-3 11.0% 100.0% 42.4% 57.6% 2.4 2.7 3.9 2.6 1.3 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-4 12.5% 100.0% 34.2% 65.8% 3.3 1.0 2.9 3.7 2.7 1.3 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
13-5 12.4% 99.7% 27.3% 72.4% 4.4 0.2 1.2 2.7 3.1 2.2 1.5 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.6%
12-6 11.8% 97.8% 20.1% 77.7% 5.7 0.1 0.3 1.1 2.1 2.5 2.0 1.6 1.1 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.3 97.2%
11-7 10.3% 93.4% 14.3% 79.1% 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.7 1.4 1.7 1.8 1.5 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.7 92.3%
10-8 8.1% 83.3% 9.9% 73.4% 8.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.7 1.2 1.3 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.3 0.0 1.4 81.5%
9-9 6.6% 64.0% 7.2% 56.9% 9.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.3 0.0 2.4 61.3%
8-10 4.5% 34.7% 4.6% 30.1% 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.0 2.9 31.5%
7-11 3.1% 13.7% 2.8% 10.8% 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 2.6 11.2%
6-12 2.0% 2.0% 0.8% 1.1% 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.9 1.1%
5-13 1.1% 1.9% 1.9% 12.0 0.0 1.1
4-14 0.6% 0.1% 0.1% 13.0 0.0 0.6
3-15 0.3% 0.3
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17 0.0% 1.4% 1.4% 13.0 0.0 0.0
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 85.7% 26.4% 59.2% 4.6 12.6 13.4 11.7 10.2 8.4 7.0 6.3 5.2 4.0 3.2 2.7 0.9 0.0 14.3 80.5%


Optimistic / Pessimistic Scenarios

ChanceTourney
Bid
Avg
Seed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Win Out 0.6% 100.0% 1.1 85.1 14.9
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.1% 100.0% 1.1 87.0 13.0
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 100.0% 1.5 47.2 52.8