Preseason Rankings
Louisiana Tech
Conference USA
2021-22
Overall
Predictive Rating+5.7#93
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace72.0#106
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+2.0#116
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+3.7#76
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
#1 Seed 0.1% 0.7% 0.1%
Top 2 Seed 0.5% 2.4% 0.2%
Top 4 Seed 1.6% 7.0% 0.8%
Top 6 Seed 3.1% 12.6% 1.8%
NCAA Tourney Bid 22.0% 46.4% 18.5%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 7.6% 24.8% 5.6%
Average Seed 10.3 8.7 10.8
.500 or above 79.2% 96.8% 76.6%
.500 or above in Conference 80.3% 95.0% 78.2%
Conference Champion 20.3% 37.2% 17.8%
Last Place in Conference 1.4% 0.1% 1.6%
First Four2.4% 4.8% 2.0%
First Round20.8% 43.9% 17.4%
Second Round8.2% 21.8% 6.2%
Sweet Sixteen3.0% 9.2% 2.1%
Elite Eight1.0% 3.4% 0.7%
Final Four0.4% 1.2% 0.2%
Championship Game0.1% 0.4% 0.1%
National Champion0.0% 0.2% 0.0%

Next Game: Alabama (Away) - 12.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 20 - 2
Quad 1b0 - 11 - 3
Quad 22 - 33 - 6
Quad 37 - 49 - 9
Quad 49 - 118 - 11


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 09, 2021 15   @ Alabama L 74-86 13%    
  Nov 12, 2021 262   Jackson St. W 76-62 90%    
  Nov 19, 2021 338   @ Northwestern St. W 84-69 90%    
  Nov 24, 2021 269   Louisiana Monroe W 78-63 89%    
  Nov 27, 2021 59   @ North Carolina St. L 69-75 30%    
  Dec 01, 2021 211   Texas Southern W 82-71 82%    
  Dec 04, 2021 124   @ Santa Clara L 75-76 49%    
  Dec 11, 2021 171   Louisiana W 81-72 77%    
  Dec 18, 2021 36   LSU L 75-81 31%    
  Dec 30, 2021 118   Marshall W 81-76 66%    
  Jan 01, 2022 100   Western Kentucky W 74-71 61%    
  Jan 06, 2022 163   @ UTEP W 71-69 58%    
  Jan 08, 2022 207   @ Texas San Antonio W 80-75 65%    
  Jan 13, 2022 195   Southern Miss W 75-65 80%    
  Jan 16, 2022 195   @ Southern Miss W 72-68 64%    
  Jan 22, 2022 74   UAB W 71-70 54%    
  Jan 27, 2022 173   Rice W 81-72 76%    
  Jan 29, 2022 123   North Texas W 69-63 67%    
  Feb 03, 2022 159   @ Florida Atlantic W 73-71 58%    
  Feb 05, 2022 273   @ Florida International W 79-70 76%    
  Feb 10, 2022 178   @ Charlotte W 67-64 60%    
  Feb 17, 2022 163   UTEP W 74-66 75%    
  Feb 19, 2022 207   Texas San Antonio W 83-72 80%    
  Feb 24, 2022 173   @ Rice W 78-75 59%    
  Feb 26, 2022 123   @ North Texas L 65-66 49%    
  Mar 02, 2022 131   Old Dominion W 74-68 69%    
  Mar 05, 2022 74   @ UAB L 68-73 36%    
Projected Record 17 - 10 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Conference USA 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 0.1 0.8 2.9 5.5 5.7 3.7 1.5 20.3 1st
2nd 0.1 1.2 3.8 5.2 3.1 0.9 0.1 14.3 2nd
3rd 0.1 1.2 4.0 4.7 2.0 0.3 0.0 12.3 3rd
4th 0.0 0.8 3.5 4.1 1.6 0.2 0.0 10.2 4th
5th 0.0 0.5 2.9 3.8 1.3 0.1 0.0 8.7 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 2.0 3.6 1.5 0.1 7.4 6th
7th 0.1 1.4 3.1 1.6 0.2 6.3 7th
8th 0.0 0.8 2.7 1.8 0.3 0.0 5.6 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 1.8 1.7 0.3 0.0 4.3 9th
10th 0.0 0.3 1.2 1.6 0.5 0.0 3.6 10th
11th 0.0 0.2 0.8 1.2 0.5 0.0 2.8 11th
12th 0.0 0.1 0.6 0.9 0.5 0.1 2.2 12th
13th 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.1 1.4 13th
14th 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.7 14th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.4 2.3 3.4 4.9 6.5 7.8 9.3 10.4 10.8 11.1 10.2 8.9 6.5 3.8 1.5 Total



Conference USA 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% 1.5    1.5
17-1 98.6% 3.7    3.4 0.3
16-2 86.8% 5.7    4.3 1.3 0.1 0.0
15-3 61.3% 5.5    3.0 2.0 0.4 0.0
14-4 28.8% 2.9    1.0 1.2 0.6 0.1 0.0
13-5 7.7% 0.8    0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0
12-6 0.9% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 20.3% 20.3 13.3 5.2 1.4 0.3 0.1 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 1.5% 96.0% 66.0% 29.9% 4.9 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 88.1%
17-1 3.8% 85.2% 50.9% 34.2% 7.4 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.6 69.8%
16-2 6.5% 68.5% 39.4% 29.1% 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.9 0.8 0.2 0.0 2.1 48.0%
15-3 8.9% 48.0% 32.1% 15.9% 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 1.0 1.3 0.5 0.0 0.0 4.7 23.4%
14-4 10.2% 32.5% 24.0% 8.5% 11.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.4 0.6 0.1 0.0 6.9 11.2%
13-5 11.1% 20.0% 16.6% 3.5% 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 1.0 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 8.9 4.2%
12-6 10.8% 13.0% 12.2% 0.8% 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 9.4 0.9%
11-7 10.4% 7.8% 7.6% 0.2% 13.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 9.6 0.2%
10-8 9.3% 4.8% 4.8% 0.0% 13.6 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 8.8 0.0%
9-9 7.8% 2.5% 2.5% 14.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 7.6
8-10 6.5% 1.7% 1.7% 14.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.4
7-11 4.9% 0.9% 0.9% 15.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.8
6-12 3.4% 0.5% 0.5% 15.8 0.0 0.0 3.4
5-13 2.3% 0.4% 0.4% 16.0 0.0 2.3
4-14 1.4% 1.4
3-15 0.7% 0.7
2-16 0.3% 0.3
1-17 0.1% 0.1
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 22.0% 15.6% 6.4% 10.3 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.7 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 3.3 5.4 3.1 1.1 0.4 0.1 78.0 7.6%


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 0.1% 100.0% 2.1 29.5 38.5 24.2 6.2 1.6
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 100.0% 3.4 18.4 9.2 18.4 35.5 9.2 9.2
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 100.0% 3.6 35.0 35.0 30.0