Preseason Rankings
Arkansas St.
Sun Belt
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+1.2#140
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace73.5#53
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+0.4#151
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+0.8#138
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 16.0% 20.6% 12.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.8 12.4 13.0
.500 or above 72.6% 84.9% 64.1%
.500 or above in Conference 84.2% 89.8% 80.3%
Conference Champion 22.1% 28.4% 17.7%
Last Place in Conference 1.0% 0.6% 1.3%
First Four0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
First Round16.0% 20.5% 12.9%
Second Round2.0% 3.0% 1.4%
Sweet Sixteen0.3% 0.6% 0.2%
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: Ohio (Away) - 40.9% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 21 - 21 - 4
Quad 35 - 56 - 9
Quad 411 - 317 - 12


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 145   @ Ohio L 76-79 41%    
  Nov 07, 2025 212   @ Stephen F. Austin W 71-70 54%    
  Nov 11, 2025 162   @ Missouri St. L 68-69 46%    
  Nov 19, 2025 49   @ St. Mary's L 59-72 13%    
  Nov 21, 2025 44   @ SMU L 69-83 11%    
  Nov 24, 2025 153   Jacksonville St. W 71-67 64%    
  Nov 28, 2025 208   North Dakota St. W 76-69 74%    
  Dec 02, 2025 202   Texas Arlington W 78-71 72%    
  Dec 06, 2025 177   @ Arkansas Little Rock L 71-72 49%    
  Dec 13, 2025 165   @ Rice L 71-72 47%    
  Dec 17, 2025 193   @ Texas St. W 72-71 51%    
  Dec 20, 2025 281   @ Southern Miss W 79-74 66%    
  Jan 04, 2026 129   James Madison W 73-71 58%    
  Jan 07, 2026 130   Troy W 72-70 58%    
  Jan 10, 2026 193   Texas St. W 75-69 71%    
  Jan 15, 2026 163   @ South Alabama L 67-68 46%    
  Jan 17, 2026 130   @ Troy L 69-73 38%    
  Jan 22, 2026 249   @ Georgia Southern W 78-75 60%    
  Jan 24, 2026 284   @ Georgia St. W 79-74 67%    
  Jan 28, 2026 200   Old Dominion W 76-69 70%    
  Jan 31, 2026 187   Marshall W 78-72 70%    
  Feb 04, 2026 275   @ Coastal Carolina W 72-68 65%    
  Feb 11, 2026 348   Louisiana Monroe W 81-65 91%    
  Feb 14, 2026 163   South Alabama W 70-65 66%    
  Feb 19, 2026 234   @ Louisiana W 73-71 58%    
  Feb 21, 2026 348   @ Louisiana Monroe W 78-68 80%    
  Feb 24, 2026 281   Southern Miss W 82-71 82%    
  Feb 27, 2026 234   Louisiana W 76-68 75%    
Projected Record 16 - 12 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Sun Belt 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 0.2 1.4 4.3 6.1 5.9 3.2 1.0 22.1 1st
2nd 0.2 1.9 5.0 5.6 2.7 0.6 0.0 16.0 2nd
3rd 0.1 1.6 5.0 4.4 1.3 0.2 0.0 12.7 3rd
4th 0.0 1.0 4.3 4.0 1.2 0.0 10.5 4th
5th 0.0 0.5 3.1 3.9 1.0 0.1 8.6 5th
6th 0.0 0.1 1.9 3.6 1.3 0.1 6.9 6th
7th 0.0 1.0 3.1 1.7 0.1 5.9 7th
8th 0.0 0.5 2.5 1.8 0.2 0.0 5.0 8th
9th 0.0 0.0 0.2 1.4 2.0 0.5 0.0 4.1 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.8 1.5 0.5 0.0 2.9 10th
11th 0.1 0.4 1.0 0.5 0.1 2.1 11th
12th 0.0 0.4 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.0 1.6 12th
13th 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.9 13th
14th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.5 14th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.9 1.5 2.6 4.0 6.2 7.8 9.7 11.5 12.2 12.1 11.3 8.9 6.5 3.2 1.0 Total



Sun Belt 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% 1.0    1.0
17-1 99.6% 3.2    3.1 0.2
16-2 91.2% 5.9    4.7 1.1 0.1
15-3 68.2% 6.1    3.5 2.2 0.3 0.0
14-4 37.9% 4.3    1.5 2.0 0.7 0.1 0.0
13-5 11.6% 1.4    0.2 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.0
12-6 1.5% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0% 0.0    0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 22.1% 22.1 14.1 6.0 1.5 0.4 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 1.0% 64.8% 63.2% 1.6% 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.4 4.4%
17-1 3.2% 53.3% 53.1% 0.3% 11.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.7 0.7 0.2 0.0 1.5 0.5%
16-2 6.5% 42.8% 42.8% 0.1% 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 1.4 0.6 0.1 3.7 0.1%
15-3 8.9% 36.3% 36.3% 12.6 0.0 0.2 1.4 1.1 0.4 0.0 0.0 5.7
14-4 11.3% 26.9% 26.9% 13.0 0.1 0.9 1.2 0.7 0.1 0.0 8.2
13-5 12.1% 19.2% 19.2% 13.4 0.0 0.3 1.0 0.8 0.2 0.0 9.8
12-6 12.2% 10.4% 10.4% 14.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.1 10.9
11-7 11.5% 4.9% 4.9% 14.7 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 11.0
10-8 9.7% 2.8% 2.8% 15.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 9.4
9-9 7.8% 1.2% 1.2% 17.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.7
8-10 6.2% 0.7% 0.7% 17.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.2
7-11 4.0% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 4.0
6-12 2.6% 2.6
5-13 1.5% 1.5
4-14 0.9% 0.9
3-15 0.5% 0.5
2-16 0.2% 0.2
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 16.0% 16.0% 0.0% 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 2.0 5.1 4.7 2.8 0.9 0.3 84.0 0.0%


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 0.0% 100.0% 7.0 2.3 95.3 2.3
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0%