Preseason Rankings
Northwestern
Big Ten
2020-21
Overall
Predictive Rating+7.0#80
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace65.4#265
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+3.2#92
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+3.8#77
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
#1 Seed 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 2.0% 2.1% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 5.3% 5.3% 0.7%
NCAA Tourney Bid 15.5% 15.7% 3.2%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 14.8% 14.9% 1.7%
Average Seed 8.0 8.0 9.6
.500 or above 24.9% 25.2% 4.1%
.500 or above in Conference 15.7% 15.9% 2.6%
Conference Champion 0.5% 0.6% 0.0%
Last Place in Conference 26.2% 25.9% 53.2%
First Four2.4% 2.4% 0.2%
First Round14.4% 14.6% 3.1%
Second Round7.8% 7.9% 1.4%
Sweet Sixteen3.0% 3.1% 0.0%
Elite Eight1.1% 1.2% 0.0%
Final Four0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
Championship Game0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
National Champion0.1% 0.1% 0.0%

Next Game: Arkansas Pine Bluff (Home) - 98.9% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 81 - 8
Quad 1b2 - 43 - 12
Quad 23 - 36 - 15
Quad 32 - 17 - 15
Quad 43 - 010 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Dec 02, 2020 338   Arkansas Pine Bluff W 77-52 99%    
  Dec 05, 2020 345   Chicago St. W 77-49 99%    
  Dec 09, 2020 87   Pittsburgh W 68-64 63%    
  Dec 13, 2020 331   SIU Edwardsville W 81-59 98%    
  Dec 20, 2020 10   Michigan St. L 69-75 31%    
  Dec 23, 2020 24   @ Indiana L 65-74 21%    
  Dec 26, 2020 17   Ohio St. L 66-70 35%    
  Dec 29, 2020 9   @ Iowa L 70-82 16%    
  Jan 03, 2021 19   @ Michigan L 66-76 19%    
  Jan 07, 2021 13   Illinois L 66-71 33%    
  Jan 13, 2021 17   @ Ohio St. L 63-73 18%    
  Jan 17, 2021 9   Iowa L 73-79 32%    
  Jan 23, 2021 62   @ Penn St. L 70-75 33%    
  Jan 27, 2021 8   @ Wisconsin L 59-71 16%    
  Jan 31, 2021 33   Rutgers L 67-69 45%    
  Feb 03, 2021 19   Michigan L 69-73 36%    
  Feb 06, 2021 28   @ Purdue L 62-70 24%    
  Feb 10, 2021 24   Indiana L 68-71 39%    
  Feb 13, 2021 33   @ Rutgers L 64-72 26%    
  Feb 16, 2021 13   @ Illinois L 63-74 18%    
  Feb 21, 2021 8   Wisconsin L 62-68 31%    
  Feb 27, 2021 37   @ Minnesota L 65-72 27%    
  Mar 02, 2021 39   Maryland L 68-69 46%    
  Mar 06, 2021 113   Nebraska W 78-72 69%    
Projected Record 10 - 14 6 - 14





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big Ten Finish

0-20 1-19 2-18 3-17 4-16 5-15 6-14 7-13 8-12 9-11 10-10 11-9 12-8 13-7 14-6 15-5 16-4 17-3 18-2 19-1 20-0 Total
1st 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.5 1st
2nd 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 1.1 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.3 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.0 1.5 3rd
4th 0.0 0.3 0.9 0.6 0.1 0.0 1.9 4th
5th 0.3 1.2 1.0 0.1 0.0 2.7 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.3 1.5 0.4 0.0 3.4 6th
7th 0.0 0.1 1.4 2.2 0.7 0.0 4.4 7th
8th 0.0 0.1 1.2 2.7 1.4 0.1 5.6 8th
9th 0.1 1.1 3.0 2.4 0.3 6.9 9th
10th 0.1 1.2 3.5 3.0 0.7 0.0 8.6 10th
11th 0.0 0.3 1.8 4.0 3.9 1.1 0.1 11.1 11th
12th 0.0 0.7 2.5 5.1 4.6 1.6 0.1 0.0 14.7 12th
13th 0.4 2.2 4.6 6.4 4.3 1.7 0.2 19.9 13th
14th 1.3 3.7 5.1 4.3 2.4 0.7 0.1 17.6 14th
Total 1.3 4.1 7.3 9.7 11.6 12.0 11.8 10.4 8.6 7.5 5.5 3.9 2.7 1.7 1.1 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 Total



Big Ten Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
20-0
19-1 100.0% 0.0    0.0
18-2 100.0% 0.0    0.0
17-3 88.1% 0.1    0.1 0.0
16-4 64.5% 0.2    0.1 0.0 0.0
15-5 23.0% 0.1    0.0 0.1 0.0
14-6 9.0% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
13-7 2.4% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0% 0.0    0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 0.5% 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 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
20-0
19-1 0.0% 100.0% 42.9% 57.1% 1.0 0.0 100.0%
18-2 0.0% 100.0% 29.6% 70.4% 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-3 0.1% 100.0% 36.9% 63.1% 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-4 0.2% 100.0% 10.3% 89.7% 2.6 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-5 0.5% 100.0% 13.0% 87.0% 3.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-6 1.1% 100.0% 12.4% 87.6% 4.4 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
13-7 1.7% 100.0% 7.8% 92.2% 5.5 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
12-8 2.7% 99.3% 4.4% 94.9% 6.9 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.2%
11-9 3.9% 90.8% 2.6% 88.2% 8.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.4 90.5%
10-10 5.5% 66.2% 1.6% 64.6% 10.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.1 0.0 1.9 65.6%
9-11 7.5% 21.5% 0.7% 20.9% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 5.9 21.0%
8-12 8.6% 4.3% 0.7% 3.6% 11.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 8.2 3.6%
7-13 10.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.4 0.2%
6-14 11.8% 0.1% 0.1% 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.8
5-15 12.0% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 12.0
4-16 11.6% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 11.6
3-17 9.7% 9.7
2-18 7.3% 7.3
1-19 4.1% 4.1
0-20 1.3% 1.3
Total 100% 15.5% 0.9% 14.6% 8.0 0.2 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.3 1.9 1.7 1.9 1.6 1.3 1.6 1.7 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 84.5 14.8%