Preseason Rankings
Long Beach St.
Big West
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-5.4#264
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace61.9#333
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-2.8#255
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-2.6#263
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 1.9% 5.0% 1.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 14.1 12.7 13.9
.500 or above 19.8% 59.4% 19.0%
.500 or above in Conference 31.1% 62.3% 30.5%
Conference Champion 1.7% 6.8% 1.6%
Last Place in Conference 15.1% 3.7% 15.4%
First Four0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
First Round1.9% 5.0% 1.8%
Second Round0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
Sweet Sixteen0.0% 0.0% 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: San Diego St. (Away) - 2.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 20 - 30 - 6
Quad 33 - 83 - 14
Quad 48 - 611 - 20


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 04, 2025 38   @ San Diego St. L 53-75 2%    
  Nov 08, 2025 198   @ Fresno St. L 68-74 29%    
  Nov 12, 2025 219   @ Pacific L 65-70 33%    
  Nov 16, 2025 109   Illinois St. L 65-71 28%    
  Nov 21, 2025 217   Montana St. W 66-65 53%    
  Nov 26, 2025 262   @ Portland L 68-71 40%    
  Nov 30, 2025 183   San Diego L 72-73 47%    
  Dec 04, 2025 135   @ UC Santa Barbara L 61-71 19%    
  Dec 06, 2025 117   UC San Diego L 63-68 33%    
  Dec 09, 2025 159   @ San Jose St. L 62-70 24%    
  Dec 18, 2025 239   Pepperdine W 70-68 57%    
  Dec 21, 2025 20   @ Iowa St. L 55-80 2%    
  Jan 03, 2026 256   Cal Poly W 78-75 59%    
  Jan 08, 2026 93   @ UC Irvine L 60-74 12%    
  Jan 10, 2026 223   Cal St. Bakersfield W 67-66 54%    
  Jan 15, 2026 258   UC Riverside W 69-66 59%    
  Jan 17, 2026 176   @ Cal St. Northridge L 69-76 27%    
  Jan 22, 2026 337   @ Cal St. Fullerton W 67-65 57%    
  Jan 24, 2026 135   UC Santa Barbara L 64-68 36%    
  Jan 29, 2026 258   @ UC Riverside L 66-69 39%    
  Jan 31, 2026 134   Hawaii L 63-67 37%    
  Feb 05, 2026 117   @ UC San Diego L 60-71 18%    
  Feb 12, 2026 337   Cal St. Fullerton W 70-62 75%    
  Feb 14, 2026 252   @ UC Davis L 63-67 39%    
  Feb 19, 2026 93   UC Irvine L 63-71 27%    
  Feb 21, 2026 176   Cal St. Northridge L 72-73 46%    
  Feb 26, 2026 256   @ Cal Poly L 75-78 38%    
  Feb 28, 2026 223   @ Cal St. Bakersfield L 64-69 34%    
  Mar 05, 2026 252   UC Davis W 66-64 58%    
  Mar 08, 2026 134   @ Hawaii L 60-70 21%    
Projected Record 11 - 19 8 - 12





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big West 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 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.7 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 0.6 1.0 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.0 3.2 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.0 0.4 1.4 2.1 1.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 5.3 3rd
4th 0.0 0.1 0.7 2.3 2.5 1.2 0.2 0.0 7.1 4th
5th 0.0 0.1 1.0 3.1 3.1 1.2 0.2 0.0 8.8 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.6 4.1 3.7 1.2 0.1 0.0 10.9 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 2.1 4.8 3.9 1.1 0.1 0.0 12.3 7th
8th 0.0 0.6 2.7 4.9 3.7 1.0 0.1 13.2 8th
9th 0.0 0.2 1.2 3.6 5.1 3.1 0.7 0.1 14.0 9th
10th 0.0 0.5 2.3 4.0 4.2 2.3 0.4 0.0 13.9 10th
11th 0.3 1.3 2.5 2.9 1.9 0.7 0.1 0.0 9.7 11th
Total 0.3 1.3 3.0 5.4 7.1 9.1 10.6 10.8 11.0 10.1 8.7 7.2 5.5 4.1 2.5 1.6 0.9 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 Total



Big West 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% 0.0    0.0
19-1 100.0% 0.1    0.1
18-2 90.4% 0.2    0.1 0.0
17-3 73.3% 0.3    0.2 0.0 0.0
16-4 52.7% 0.5    0.2 0.2 0.0
15-5 27.6% 0.4    0.2 0.2 0.1
14-6 7.6% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
13-7 1.7% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.1% 0.0    0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 1.7% 1.7 0.9 0.5 0.2 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
20-0 0.0% 100.0% 50.0% 50.0% 11.0 0.0 100.0%
19-1 0.1% 49.8% 49.8% 11.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
18-2 0.2% 30.9% 30.9% 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
17-3 0.4% 30.8% 30.8% 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
16-4 0.9% 23.6% 23.6% 12.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.7
15-5 1.6% 18.2% 18.2% 13.4 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 1.3
14-6 2.5% 11.2% 11.2% 13.7 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 2.2
13-7 4.1% 7.6% 7.6% 14.3 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 3.8
12-8 5.5% 4.3% 4.3% 14.9 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 5.2
11-9 7.2% 2.1% 2.1% 15.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 7.1
10-10 8.7% 1.4% 1.4% 16.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 8.6
9-11 10.1% 0.6% 0.6% 16.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.1
8-12 11.0% 0.4% 0.4% 15.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.0
7-13 10.8% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.8
6-14 10.6% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 10.6
5-15 9.1% 9.1
4-16 7.1% 7.1
3-17 5.4% 5.4
2-18 3.0% 3.0
1-19 1.3% 1.3
0-20 0.3% 0.3
Total 100% 1.9% 1.9% 0.0% 14.1 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.2 98.1 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
Lose Out 0.1%