Preseason Rankings
Jacksonville St.
Conference USA
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+0.2#153
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace63.1#312
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-1.1#203
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+1.3#126
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 8.2% 9.2% 3.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.6 12.5 13.3
.500 or above 59.9% 65.4% 36.2%
.500 or above in Conference 58.1% 62.0% 41.3%
Conference Champion 9.1% 10.3% 3.9%
Last Place in Conference 7.7% 6.3% 14.0%
First Four0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
First Round8.2% 9.2% 3.8%
Second Round1.1% 1.3% 0.4%
Sweet Sixteen0.2% 0.2% 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: Coastal Carolina (Home) - 81.0% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 21 - 31 - 4
Quad 36 - 77 - 11
Quad 49 - 316 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 14, 2025 275   Coastal Carolina W 69-60 81%    
  Nov 19, 2025 163   South Alabama W 64-60 64%    
  Nov 24, 2025 140   @ Arkansas St. L 67-71 36%    
  Nov 26, 2025 208   North Dakota St. W 68-65 61%    
  Dec 01, 2025 195   North Alabama W 69-64 68%    
  Dec 13, 2025 284   @ Georgia St. W 72-68 64%    
  Dec 17, 2025 174   Eastern Kentucky W 71-67 65%    
  Dec 20, 2025 152   @ East Tennessee St. L 63-66 40%    
  Dec 29, 2025 156   Western Kentucky W 73-70 62%    
  Jan 02, 2026 242   @ Delaware W 73-71 56%    
  Jan 04, 2026 97   @ Liberty L 61-69 25%    
  Jan 07, 2026 210   Florida International W 70-64 70%    
  Jan 10, 2026 142   @ Kennesaw St. L 69-73 38%    
  Jan 14, 2026 194   Sam Houston St. W 70-65 67%    
  Jan 17, 2026 143   Louisiana Tech W 64-62 58%    
  Jan 24, 2026 147   Middle Tennessee W 69-66 59%    
  Jan 28, 2026 210   @ Florida International W 68-67 50%    
  Jan 31, 2026 162   @ Missouri St. L 61-63 43%    
  Feb 05, 2026 156   @ Western Kentucky L 70-73 41%    
  Feb 07, 2026 142   Kennesaw St. W 72-70 58%    
  Feb 11, 2026 157   UTEP W 68-65 61%    
  Feb 14, 2026 138   New Mexico St. W 64-62 56%    
  Feb 18, 2026 143   @ Louisiana Tech L 61-65 39%    
  Feb 21, 2026 194   @ Sam Houston St. L 67-68 48%    
  Feb 26, 2026 242   Delaware W 76-68 73%    
  Feb 28, 2026 97   Liberty L 64-66 43%    
  Mar 05, 2026 138   @ New Mexico St. L 61-65 36%    
  Mar 07, 2026 157   @ UTEP L 65-68 41%    
Projected Record 15 - 13 10 - 10





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Conference USA Finish

0-20 1-19 2-18 3-17 4-16 5-15 6-14 7-13 8-12 9-11 10-10 11-9 12-8 13-7 14-6 15-5 16-4 17-3 18-2 19-1 20-0 Total
1st 0.0 0.2 0.9 1.9 2.3 1.9 1.2 0.5 0.1 9.1 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 1.9 3.1 2.5 1.2 0.3 0.0 9.6 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.0 0.5 2.3 3.8 2.4 0.8 0.1 10.0 3rd
4th 0.0 0.4 2.6 4.1 2.0 0.5 0.0 9.5 4th
5th 0.0 0.4 2.4 4.3 2.2 0.3 0.0 9.6 5th
6th 0.0 0.3 2.2 4.4 2.5 0.4 0.0 9.7 6th
7th 0.0 0.1 1.7 3.9 2.4 0.4 0.0 8.5 7th
8th 0.0 0.2 1.5 3.6 2.4 0.5 0.0 8.2 8th
9th 0.0 0.2 1.4 3.2 2.3 0.5 0.0 7.7 9th
10th 0.0 0.3 1.3 2.7 2.2 0.5 0.0 7.1 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.4 2.1 1.5 0.4 0.0 6.1 11th
12th 0.1 0.3 0.8 1.4 1.3 0.8 0.2 0.0 4.9 12th
Total 0.1 0.3 0.9 2.0 3.0 4.5 6.0 7.4 8.4 9.4 10.2 10.3 9.4 8.3 7.0 5.2 3.7 2.2 1.2 0.5 0.1 Total



Conference USA Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
20-0 100.0% 0.1    0.1
19-1 100.0% 0.5    0.5 0.0
18-2 97.0% 1.2    1.1 0.1
17-3 85.1% 1.9    1.5 0.4 0.0
16-4 63.6% 2.3    1.5 0.7 0.1 0.0
15-5 36.3% 1.9    0.8 0.8 0.2 0.0
14-6 13.5% 0.9    0.3 0.4 0.2 0.1
13-7 2.7% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 9.1% 9.1 5.8 2.5 0.6 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
20-0 0.1% 69.4% 49.9% 19.5% 9.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 39.0%
19-1 0.5% 50.1% 44.6% 5.5% 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3 10.0%
18-2 1.2% 42.8% 40.4% 2.4% 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.7 4.0%
17-3 2.2% 35.8% 35.4% 0.4% 11.5 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 1.4 0.6%
16-4 3.7% 28.8% 28.8% 11.9 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.0 2.6
15-5 5.2% 21.1% 21.1% 12.3 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.1 4.1
14-6 7.0% 17.1% 17.1% 12.6 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.0 5.8
13-7 8.3% 12.3% 12.3% 13.0 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.0 7.3
12-8 9.4% 9.3% 9.3% 13.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.0 8.6
11-9 10.3% 6.0% 6.0% 13.8 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 9.7
10-10 10.2% 3.5% 3.5% 14.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 9.8
9-11 9.4% 1.7% 1.7% 16.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 9.2
8-12 8.4% 1.2% 1.2% 17.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.3
7-13 7.4% 0.4% 0.4% 15.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.4
6-14 6.0% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 6.0
5-15 4.5% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 4.4
4-16 3.0% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 3.0
3-17 2.0% 2.0
2-18 0.9% 0.9
1-19 0.3% 0.3
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 8.2% 8.1% 0.1% 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 1.3 2.6 2.2 1.2 0.4 0.2 91.8 0.1%


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% 5.5 50.3 49.7
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 51.2% 6.1 50.0 1.2
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 66.7% 10.0 66.7
Lose Out 0.0%