Preseason Rankings
Eastern Kentucky
Atlantic Sun
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-1.1#174
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.5#168
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+1.2#129
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-2.4#252
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 19.7% 23.8% 14.3%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 14.8 13.9 14.5
.500 or above 74.7% 84.4% 61.6%
.500 or above in Conference 87.7% 91.6% 82.5%
Conference Champion 25.8% 30.8% 19.0%
Last Place in Conference 0.7% 0.3% 1.2%
First Four1.9% 1.6% 2.2%
First Round19.9% 24.0% 14.4%
Second Round1.1% 1.5% 0.7%
Sweet Sixteen0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
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: Western Kentucky (Home) - 57.4% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 15 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 20 - 20 - 3
Quad 33 - 43 - 7
Quad 415 - 518 - 12


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 10, 2025 156   Western Kentucky W 79-77 57%    
  Nov 12, 2025 41   @ Vanderbilt L 68-85 7%    
  Nov 22, 2025 248   Mercer W 79-72 72%    
  Nov 24, 2025 266   @ Northern Kentucky W 71-69 56%    
  Nov 29, 2025 206   Wofford W 72-68 65%    
  Dec 03, 2025 109   @ Illinois St. L 69-77 23%    
  Dec 10, 2025 322   @ Eastern Illinois W 72-67 68%    
  Dec 13, 2025 128   Miami (OH) L 75-76 49%    
  Dec 17, 2025 153   @ Jacksonville St. L 67-71 35%    
  Dec 21, 2025 122   @ Wichita St. L 71-77 29%    
  Jan 01, 2026 245   @ Queens W 77-76 52%    
  Jan 03, 2026 345   @ West Georgia W 78-70 74%    
  Jan 08, 2026 195   North Alabama W 74-70 63%    
  Jan 10, 2026 358   Central Arkansas W 80-64 92%    
  Jan 15, 2026 276   @ Austin Peay W 72-70 57%    
  Jan 17, 2026 320   Bellarmine W 80-69 83%    
  Jan 22, 2026 330   @ North Florida W 84-78 69%    
  Jan 24, 2026 253   @ Jacksonville W 72-71 53%    
  Jan 28, 2026 276   Austin Peay W 75-67 75%    
  Jan 31, 2026 358   @ Central Arkansas W 77-67 80%    
  Feb 05, 2026 181   Florida Gulf Coast W 72-69 61%    
  Feb 07, 2026 350   Stetson W 81-67 87%    
  Feb 11, 2026 188   @ Lipscomb L 70-72 42%    
  Feb 14, 2026 195   @ North Alabama L 71-73 43%    
  Feb 18, 2026 345   West Georgia W 81-67 87%    
  Feb 21, 2026 320   @ Bellarmine W 77-72 66%    
  Feb 25, 2026 245   Queens W 79-73 70%    
  Feb 28, 2026 188   Lipscomb W 73-69 62%    
Projected Record 17 - 11 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Atlantic Sun 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 4.7 7.1 6.7 4.4 1.3 25.8 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 2.3 5.8 6.3 3.1 0.7 0.0 18.6 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.2 2.5 5.4 4.6 1.5 0.2 14.4 3rd
4th 0.0 0.2 2.0 4.8 3.6 0.9 0.0 11.6 4th
5th 0.1 1.4 3.8 2.8 0.6 0.0 8.7 5th
6th 0.1 1.0 3.3 2.4 0.5 0.0 7.3 6th
7th 0.0 0.7 2.2 1.9 0.4 0.0 5.2 7th
8th 0.0 0.5 1.5 1.3 0.3 0.0 3.7 8th
9th 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.8 0.2 0.0 2.2 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.6 0.6 0.2 0.0 1.5 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.7 11th
12th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 12th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.2 2.0 3.3 4.9 7.1 8.8 10.9 12.1 12.7 12.6 10.4 7.3 4.4 1.3 Total



Atlantic Sun 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% 1.3    1.3
17-1 99.4% 4.4    4.2 0.2
16-2 90.7% 6.7    5.4 1.2 0.0
15-3 68.3% 7.1    4.3 2.5 0.3 0.0
14-4 37.3% 4.7    1.8 2.1 0.7 0.1
13-5 11.3% 1.4    0.3 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-6 1.5% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.1% 0.0    0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 25.8% 25.8 17.3 6.7 1.5 0.3 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 1.3% 64.8% 64.8% 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.5
17-1 4.4% 53.4% 53.4% 12.6 0.0 0.3 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.0 2.1
16-2 7.3% 45.2% 45.2% 13.3 0.1 0.7 1.2 0.9 0.3 0.0 4.0
15-3 10.4% 34.6% 34.6% 14.0 0.0 0.3 1.1 1.4 0.8 0.1 6.8
14-4 12.6% 26.5% 26.5% 14.8 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.3 1.2 0.3 9.2
13-5 12.7% 19.8% 19.8% 16.4 0.0 0.2 0.7 1.2 0.8 10.2
12-6 12.1% 13.3% 13.3% 17.4 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.7 0.8 10.5
11-7 10.9% 9.7% 9.7% 18.2 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.7 9.8
10-8 8.8% 6.7% 6.7% 18.2 0.0 0.2 0.5 8.2
9-9 7.1% 4.5% 4.5% 18.5 0.1 0.3 6.8
8-10 4.9% 2.9% 2.9% 16.3 0.0 0.1 4.8
7-11 3.3% 1.0% 1.0% 18.0 0.0 3.3
6-12 2.0% 0.6% 0.6% 16.0 0.0 2.0
5-13 1.2% 1.2
4-14 0.6% 0.7% 0.7% 16.0 0.0 0.6
3-15 0.2% 0.2
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18
Total 100% 19.7% 19.7% 0.0% 14.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 2.3 4.0 5.1 4.9 3.7 80.3 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% 8.6 24.8 12.6 12.9 37.4 12.3