Preseason Rankings
Villanova
Big East
2020-21
Overall
Predictive Rating+17.9#3
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace64.9#277
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+9.9#4
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+8.0#8
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 6.8% 7.4% 1.7%
#1 Seed 23.7% 25.5% 8.7%
Top 2 Seed 40.3% 42.8% 19.2%
Top 4 Seed 62.2% 65.0% 38.8%
Top 6 Seed 75.1% 77.8% 53.2%
NCAA Tourney Bid 90.6% 92.4% 75.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 86.0% 88.4% 69.2%
Average Seed 3.8 3.6 5.1
.500 or above 94.9% 96.2% 84.0%
.500 or above in Conference 93.7% 94.6% 86.3%
Conference Champion 46.2% 48.2% 29.2%
Last Place in Conference 0.5% 0.4% 1.5%
First Four2.0% 1.8% 4.0%
First Round89.8% 91.7% 73.9%
Second Round75.7% 78.0% 56.4%
Sweet Sixteen51.4% 53.6% 33.3%
Elite Eight32.3% 34.1% 17.8%
Final Four19.4% 20.5% 10.0%
Championship Game11.4% 12.1% 5.4%
National Champion6.6% 7.1% 2.6%

Next Game: Boston College (Neutral) - 89.3% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 1 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a3 - 43 - 4
Quad 1b4 - 27 - 5
Quad 27 - 114 - 7
Quad 35 - 019 - 7
Quad 41 - 020 - 7


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 25, 2020 101   Boston College W 79-66 89%    
  Nov 30, 2020 174   Saint Joseph's W 87-65 97%    
  Dec 03, 2020 145   Temple W 81-61 96%    
  Dec 06, 2020 15   @ Texas W 68-67 51%    
  Dec 11, 2020 88   @ Georgetown W 78-69 78%    
  Dec 14, 2020 79   DePaul W 80-66 89%    
  Dec 16, 2020 51   Butler W 72-61 83%    
  Dec 19, 2020 6   Virginia W 59-58 55%    
  Dec 23, 2020 45   @ Marquette W 77-72 65%    
  Mar 08, 2021 12   @ Creighton L 73-74 49%    
  Mar 08, 2021 44   Seton Hall W 78-68 81%    
  Mar 08, 2021 41   Providence W 76-66 80%    
  Mar 08, 2021 45   Marquette W 80-69 81%    
  Mar 08, 2021 58   Xavier W 76-64 83%    
  Mar 08, 2021 73   St. John's W 82-69 86%    
  Mar 08, 2021 88   Georgetown W 81-66 88%    
  Mar 08, 2021 34   Connecticut W 77-67 78%    
  Mar 09, 2021 12   Creighton W 77-71 68%    
  Mar 09, 2021 44   @ Seton Hall W 75-71 64%    
  Mar 09, 2021 41   @ Providence W 73-69 63%    
  Mar 09, 2021 51   @ Butler W 69-64 66%    
  Mar 09, 2021 58   @ Xavier W 73-67 67%    
  Mar 09, 2021 73   @ St. John's W 79-72 72%    
  Mar 09, 2021 79   @ DePaul W 77-69 74%    
  Mar 09, 2021 34   @ Connecticut W 74-70 61%    
Projected Record 19 - 6 15 - 5





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big East 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 0.3 1.7 4.7 8.5 10.5 10.0 7.5 2.9 46.2 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 2.6 5.1 6.7 4.0 1.7 0.3 20.9 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.5 2.6 4.0 3.2 1.3 0.2 11.9 3rd
4th 0.0 0.0 0.4 1.9 2.7 1.7 0.4 0.0 7.2 4th
5th 0.0 0.2 1.4 2.2 1.1 0.2 0.0 5.0 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.0 1.5 0.7 0.1 0.0 3.4 6th
7th 0.1 0.7 1.0 0.4 0.0 2.2 7th
8th 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.1 1.5 8th
9th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.9 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.5 10th
11th 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 11th
Total 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.1 1.6 2.5 3.7 5.4 7.0 8.8 10.4 12.8 12.8 12.1 10.3 7.5 2.9 Total



Big East Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
20-0 100.0% 2.9    2.9
19-1 100.0% 7.5    7.5 0.1
18-2 97.4% 10.0    9.3 0.7
17-3 86.3% 10.5    8.4 2.0 0.1
16-4 66.9% 8.5    5.7 2.6 0.3 0.0
15-5 37.1% 4.7    2.3 1.7 0.6 0.0
14-6 16.1% 1.7    0.5 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.0
13-7 3.1% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.5% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0% 0.0    0.0
10-10 0.0%
Total 46.2% 46.2 36.6 8.0 1.4 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 2.9% 100.0% 74.5% 25.5% 1.1 2.6 0.3 0.0 100.0%
19-1 7.5% 100.0% 63.6% 36.4% 1.2 6.0 1.5 0.1 100.0%
18-2 10.3% 100.0% 55.6% 44.4% 1.4 6.8 3.0 0.4 0.1 0.0 100.0%
17-3 12.1% 100.0% 44.8% 55.2% 1.8 5.0 4.6 2.0 0.5 0.1 0.0 100.0%
16-4 12.8% 100.0% 40.9% 59.1% 2.5 2.5 4.3 3.7 1.5 0.6 0.1 0.0 100.0%
15-5 12.8% 100.0% 32.0% 68.0% 3.5 0.6 2.4 4.0 3.0 1.8 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-6 10.4% 99.8% 23.8% 76.0% 4.7 0.1 0.5 2.0 2.4 2.3 1.7 0.8 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.7%
13-7 8.8% 98.8% 16.5% 82.3% 6.1 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.2 1.5 1.9 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.1 98.5%
12-8 7.0% 93.1% 13.7% 79.4% 7.6 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.1 1.2 1.1 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.5 92.0%
11-9 5.4% 77.2% 8.7% 68.4% 9.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.0 1.2 75.0%
10-10 3.7% 48.2% 4.4% 43.8% 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.1 0.0 1.9 45.8%
9-11 2.5% 21.8% 4.7% 17.1% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 17.9%
8-12 1.6% 6.7% 3.7% 3.0% 13.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 3.1%
7-13 1.1% 2.3% 1.6% 0.7% 13.1 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8%
6-14 0.6% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 0.6
5-15 0.3% 0.3
4-16 0.1% 0.1
3-17 0.1% 0.1
2-18 0.1% 0.1
1-19
0-20
Total 100% 90.6% 33.1% 57.5% 3.8 23.7 16.6 12.9 9.0 7.1 5.8 4.4 3.4 2.1 1.9 1.8 1.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 9.4 86.0%


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 1.2% 100.0% 1.1 93.4 6.0 0.7
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.2% 100.0% 1.2 77.4 22.6
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.1% 100.0% 1.1 85.1 14.9