Preseason Rankings
Rice
American Athletic
2023-24
Overall
Predictive Rating-0.3#178
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace72.6#65
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+2.7#97
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-3.0#268
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
#1 Seed 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 1.7% 2.2% 0.7%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.4% 0.5% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.5 12.2 14.1
.500 or above 45.2% 53.5% 26.4%
.500 or above in Conference 37.4% 42.5% 25.6%
Conference Champion 1.4% 1.7% 0.5%
Last Place in Conference 11.8% 9.4% 17.4%
First Four0.4% 0.4% 0.2%
First Round1.6% 2.0% 0.6%
Second Round0.3% 0.5% 0.1%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Elite Eight0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Final Four0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Championship Game0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Harvard (Home) - 69.4% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 30 - 3
Quad 1b0 - 20 - 5
Quad 21 - 41 - 8
Quad 34 - 55 - 13
Quad 49 - 314 - 16


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 10, 2023 219   Harvard W 75-70 69%    
  Nov 15, 2023 15   @ Texas L 68-86 5%    
  Nov 21, 2023 122   Indiana St. L 79-82 39%    
  Nov 22, 2023 55   New Mexico L 79-89 19%    
  Nov 24, 2023 97   UC Irvine L 74-79 32%    
  Nov 30, 2023 282   Tennessee Martin W 87-78 79%    
  Dec 02, 2023 360   Houston Christian W 92-74 94%    
  Dec 06, 2023 4   @ Houston L 61-81 4%    
  Dec 13, 2023 348   Incarnate Word W 83-68 90%    
  Dec 16, 2023 337   @ Northwestern St. W 79-72 74%    
  Dec 20, 2023 326   Prairie View W 80-68 86%    
  Dec 22, 2023 176   Louisiana W 79-76 59%    
  Jan 03, 2024 99   @ Tulane L 80-88 25%    
  Jan 06, 2024 249   Texas San Antonio W 83-76 73%    
  Jan 12, 2024 145   @ South Florida L 74-79 33%    
  Jan 16, 2024 156   Charlotte W 68-66 56%    
  Jan 20, 2024 138   @ Temple L 71-76 33%    
  Jan 24, 2024 25   Florida Atlantic L 72-82 21%    
  Jan 27, 2024 233   Tulsa W 80-74 70%    
  Jan 31, 2024 27   @ Memphis L 74-90 9%    
  Feb 03, 2024 249   @ Texas San Antonio W 80-79 55%    
  Feb 07, 2024 101   SMU L 77-79 45%    
  Feb 10, 2024 145   South Florida W 77-76 54%    
  Feb 17, 2024 233   @ Tulsa W 77-76 51%    
  Feb 21, 2024 77   @ UAB L 76-86 20%    
  Feb 24, 2024 146   East Carolina W 76-75 54%    
  Feb 28, 2024 138   Temple W 74-73 52%    
  Mar 02, 2024 95   @ Wichita St. L 70-78 25%    
  Mar 06, 2024 156   @ Charlotte L 65-69 37%    
  Mar 09, 2024 90   North Texas L 62-65 40%    
Projected Record 14 - 16 8 - 10





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected American Athletic 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 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.4 1st
2nd 0.1 0.6 1.2 0.9 0.3 0.1 3.1 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.1 0.9 1.9 1.4 0.3 0.0 4.7 3rd
4th 0.1 1.1 2.6 1.8 0.4 0.0 5.9 4th
5th 0.0 0.7 2.9 2.4 0.5 0.0 6.6 5th
6th 0.0 0.5 3.1 3.3 0.8 0.1 7.7 6th
7th 0.2 2.3 4.2 1.4 0.0 8.1 7th
8th 0.1 1.7 4.6 2.2 0.2 8.8 8th
9th 0.0 1.0 4.2 3.4 0.4 0.0 9.0 9th
10th 0.0 0.7 3.7 4.3 0.8 0.0 9.6 10th
11th 0.0 0.5 2.9 4.6 1.4 0.1 9.6 11th
12th 0.0 0.5 2.7 4.4 1.8 0.1 9.5 12th
13th 0.0 0.7 2.7 3.7 1.7 0.2 0.0 9.1 13th
14th 0.3 1.2 2.3 2.1 0.8 0.2 0.0 6.9 14th
Total 0.3 1.3 3.0 5.4 7.7 9.9 11.4 12.1 11.6 10.7 8.9 6.8 5.0 3.2 1.6 0.8 0.3 0.1 0.0 Total



American Athletic 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% 0.0    0.0
17-1 100.0% 0.1    0.1 0.0
16-2 80.8% 0.2    0.2 0.1 0.0
15-3 55.0% 0.4    0.2 0.2 0.0
14-4 25.6% 0.4    0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0
13-5 5.2% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-6 0.7% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0% 0.0    0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 1.4% 1.4 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.0 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 0.0% 51.6% 25.8% 25.8% 8.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 34.8%
17-1 0.1% 79.9% 11.6% 68.3% 7.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 77.2%
16-2 0.3% 50.9% 16.1% 34.9% 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 41.5%
15-3 0.8% 20.5% 7.7% 12.9% 10.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.6 14.0%
14-4 1.6% 12.5% 8.4% 4.1% 11.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 1.4 4.5%
13-5 3.2% 7.0% 5.5% 1.5% 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 2.9 1.6%
12-6 5.0% 4.1% 4.0% 0.1% 12.8 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 4.8 0.1%
11-7 6.8% 2.2% 2.2% 12.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 6.7
10-8 8.9% 1.8% 1.8% 13.6 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.7
9-9 10.7% 1.6% 1.6% 14.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 10.5
8-10 11.6% 0.7% 0.7% 15.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.5
7-11 12.1% 0.5% 0.5% 15.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.0
6-12 11.4% 0.7% 0.7% 15.9 0.0 0.1 11.4
5-13 9.9% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 9.8
4-14 7.7% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 7.7
3-15 5.4% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 5.4
2-16 3.0% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 3.0
1-17 1.3% 1.3
0-18 0.3% 0.3
Total 100% 1.7% 1.4% 0.4% 12.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 98.3 0.4%