Preseason Rankings
East Carolina
American Athletic
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-0.3#158
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace66.3#224
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-1.0#196
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+0.7#139
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% 0.0% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 2.7% 3.3% 1.0%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.1 12.0 13.0
.500 or above 45.2% 52.1% 23.9%
.500 or above in Conference 39.8% 44.5% 25.4%
Conference Champion 3.0% 3.5% 1.6%
Last Place in Conference 13.8% 11.2% 21.5%
First Four0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
First Round2.7% 3.2% 1.1%
Second Round0.3% 0.4% 0.0%
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: Georgia Southern (Home) - 75.5% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 20 - 3
Quad 21 - 52 - 8
Quad 35 - 66 - 14
Quad 49 - 215 - 17


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 04, 2025 249   Georgia Southern W 76-68 76%    
  Nov 08, 2025 137   @ Richmond L 63-68 32%    
  Nov 18, 2025 118   @ UNC Wilmington L 65-71 30%    
  Nov 21, 2025 318   Charleston Southern W 74-62 85%    
  Nov 25, 2025 21   Michigan St. L 60-76 7%    
  Nov 27, 2025 120   St. Bonaventure L 63-66 41%    
  Dec 02, 2025 360   Maryland Eastern Shore W 75-57 94%    
  Dec 06, 2025 225   UNC Greensboro W 68-62 71%    
  Dec 11, 2025 201   Appalachian St. W 64-59 67%    
  Dec 14, 2025 334   Buffalo W 79-66 87%    
  Dec 17, 2025 267   Presbyterian W 70-61 77%    
  Dec 22, 2025 25   @ North Carolina L 65-83 6%    
  Dec 31, 2025 116   Tulane L 69-70 49%    
  Jan 07, 2026 132   @ Temple L 70-75 33%    
  Jan 11, 2026 102   UAB L 72-74 43%    
  Jan 14, 2026 106   @ South Florida L 66-74 26%    
  Jan 18, 2026 185   Charlotte W 69-64 65%    
  Jan 21, 2026 122   @ Wichita St. L 68-74 32%    
  Jan 24, 2026 89   @ North Texas L 55-64 22%    
  Jan 28, 2026 165   Rice W 69-66 61%    
  Feb 01, 2026 139   @ Florida Atlantic L 69-74 34%    
  Feb 07, 2026 132   Temple W 73-72 53%    
  Feb 11, 2026 167   Texas San Antonio W 75-71 62%    
  Feb 14, 2026 165   @ Rice L 66-69 42%    
  Feb 18, 2026 122   Wichita St. W 71-70 51%    
  Feb 21, 2026 185   @ Charlotte L 66-67 45%    
  Feb 25, 2026 167   @ Texas San Antonio L 72-74 42%    
  Mar 01, 2026 53   Memphis L 69-77 27%    
  Mar 05, 2026 149   Tulsa W 69-67 58%    
  Mar 08, 2026 102   @ UAB L 69-77 25%    
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 0.2 0.5 0.9 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.0 3.0 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 1.4 1.8 1.1 0.4 0.1 5.4 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.5 2.2 2.4 1.1 0.2 0.0 6.4 3rd
4th 0.0 0.4 2.4 3.3 1.1 0.2 0.0 7.3 4th
5th 0.0 0.2 2.2 3.9 1.4 0.2 0.0 7.9 5th
6th 0.1 1.9 4.2 1.9 0.2 8.2 6th
7th 0.0 1.2 4.2 2.7 0.4 0.0 8.4 7th
8th 0.0 0.7 3.6 3.9 0.6 0.0 8.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 2.9 4.3 1.2 0.0 8.9 9th
10th 0.0 0.3 2.4 4.4 1.7 0.1 9.1 10th
11th 0.0 0.4 2.1 3.9 2.5 0.2 9.1 11th
12th 0.0 0.7 2.3 3.2 2.3 0.4 0.0 8.9 12th
13th 0.4 1.3 2.4 2.6 1.5 0.3 0.0 8.5 13th
Total 0.4 1.3 3.1 5.3 7.2 9.3 10.9 11.2 11.5 10.2 9.0 7.5 5.2 3.6 2.2 1.2 0.5 0.2 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% 0.2    0.2 0.0
16-2 83.1% 0.4    0.4 0.1 0.0
15-3 65.9% 0.8    0.5 0.3 0.0 0.0
14-4 38.8% 0.9    0.4 0.4 0.1 0.0
13-5 13.4% 0.5    0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-6 3.4% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 3.0% 3.0 1.6 1.0 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 0.0% 50.3% 0.6% 49.7% 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 50.0%
17-1 0.2% 39.5% 27.1% 12.4% 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 17.1%
16-2 0.5% 31.5% 23.8% 7.7% 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4 10.1%
15-3 1.2% 24.2% 22.6% 1.7% 11.2 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.9 2.1%
14-4 2.2% 15.2% 14.8% 0.4% 11.5 0.2 0.2 0.0 1.9 0.4%
13-5 3.6% 12.7% 12.6% 0.1% 11.8 0.1 0.3 0.0 3.2 0.1%
12-6 5.2% 7.6% 7.5% 0.1% 12.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 4.8 0.1%
11-7 7.5% 4.9% 4.9% 12.4 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 7.2
10-8 9.0% 3.2% 3.2% 12.8 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 8.7
9-9 10.2% 1.4% 1.4% 13.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.1
8-10 11.5% 0.9% 0.9% 14.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.4
7-11 11.2% 0.5% 0.5% 15.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.2
6-12 10.9% 0.1% 0.1% 21.0 0.0 0.0 10.9
5-13 9.3% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 9.3
4-14 7.2% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 7.2
3-15 5.3% 5.3
2-16 3.1% 3.1
1-17 1.3% 1.3
0-18 0.4% 0.4
Total 100% 2.7% 2.6% 0.1% 12.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.7 1.1 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 97.3 0.1%