Preseason Rankings
Massachusetts
Mid-American
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-1.1#173
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace74.5#42
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-0.8#189
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-0.3#172
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 7.8% 9.2% 5.3%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 13.5 13.1 13.8
.500 or above 72.4% 81.1% 57.0%
.500 or above in Conference 72.4% 77.7% 62.8%
Conference Champion 10.1% 12.4% 5.9%
Last Place in Conference 2.1% 1.2% 3.8%
First Four0.2% 0.1% 0.3%
First Round7.8% 9.2% 5.3%
Second Round0.7% 0.8% 0.3%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 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: Marshall (Home) - 64.0% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 00 - 1
Quad 21 - 21 - 3
Quad 33 - 54 - 8
Quad 413 - 417 - 12


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 187   Marshall W 77-73 64%    
  Nov 08, 2025 302   Albany W 80-70 82%    
  Nov 13, 2025 347   Le Moyne W 84-70 89%    
  Nov 16, 2025 305   Central Connecticut St. W 74-64 82%    
  Nov 21, 2025 123   College of Charleston L 77-80 38%    
  Dec 03, 2025 172   Harvard W 72-69 60%    
  Dec 06, 2025 295   Umass Lowell W 81-72 79%    
  Dec 10, 2025 100   Boston College L 72-75 40%    
  Dec 13, 2025 78   Florida St. L 72-80 24%    
  Dec 20, 2025 126   Kent St. L 71-72 49%    
  Dec 30, 2025 291   @ Eastern Michigan W 77-74 60%    
  Jan 03, 2026 220   Bowling Green W 78-73 67%    
  Jan 06, 2026 145   @ Ohio L 76-81 34%    
  Jan 10, 2026 244   Ball St. W 77-70 71%    
  Jan 13, 2026 286   @ Western Michigan W 76-73 60%    
  Jan 17, 2026 316   @ Northern Illinois W 78-73 66%    
  Jan 20, 2026 180   Toledo W 80-77 62%    
  Jan 24, 2026 334   @ Buffalo W 80-74 70%    
  Jan 27, 2026 128   @ Miami (OH) L 73-79 31%    
  Jan 31, 2026 291   Eastern Michigan W 80-71 77%    
  Feb 03, 2026 299   Central Michigan W 77-68 78%    
  Feb 14, 2026 104   @ Akron L 75-84 23%    
  Feb 17, 2026 128   Miami (OH) L 76-77 50%    
  Feb 21, 2026 334   Buffalo W 83-71 84%    
  Feb 24, 2026 244   @ Ball St. W 74-73 52%    
  Feb 28, 2026 220   @ Bowling Green L 75-76 48%    
  Mar 03, 2026 145   Ohio W 79-78 54%    
Projected Record 16 - 11 10 - 8





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Mid-American 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 0.1 0.7 2.2 2.9 2.4 1.3 0.4 10.1 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 1.7 3.8 3.8 2.0 0.4 0.0 11.8 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.3 1.8 4.9 4.0 1.3 0.1 12.4 3rd
4th 0.2 2.0 4.7 4.0 1.1 0.1 12.1 4th
5th 0.0 0.1 1.5 4.8 3.8 1.0 0.1 11.3 5th
6th 0.1 1.1 4.2 3.7 1.0 0.0 10.1 6th
7th 0.0 0.8 3.1 3.7 1.0 0.1 8.6 7th
8th 0.0 0.5 2.5 3.2 1.0 0.1 7.3 8th
9th 0.0 0.3 1.6 2.7 1.0 0.1 5.8 9th
10th 0.0 0.2 1.2 1.9 1.0 0.1 4.4 10th
11th 0.1 0.8 1.3 0.8 0.1 3.1 11th
12th 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.9 0.4 0.1 2.0 12th
13th 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.0 1.1 13th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.0 2.1 3.3 4.9 7.1 8.7 10.7 11.8 11.6 11.7 9.7 7.4 5.0 2.8 1.3 0.4 Total



Mid-American 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% 0.4    0.4
17-1 98.7% 1.3    1.2 0.1
16-2 84.2% 2.4    1.8 0.5 0.0
15-3 58.3% 2.9    1.6 1.2 0.2 0.0
14-4 30.1% 2.2    0.8 1.0 0.4 0.1 0.0
13-5 7.7% 0.7    0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0
12-6 1.2% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.1% 0.0    0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 10.1% 10.1 5.8 3.1 0.9 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
18-0 0.4% 55.6% 52.3% 3.3% 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 7.0%
17-1 1.3% 38.6% 38.6% 0.0% 11.7 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.8 0.0%
16-2 2.8% 30.4% 30.4% 12.1 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.0 2.0
15-3 5.0% 23.4% 23.4% 12.6 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 3.9
14-4 7.4% 19.1% 19.1% 13.2 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.1 6.0
13-5 9.7% 11.9% 11.9% 13.7 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.0 8.5
12-6 11.7% 8.3% 8.3% 14.0 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.0 10.7
11-7 11.6% 6.6% 6.6% 14.9 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 10.8
10-8 11.8% 3.6% 3.6% 16.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 11.4
9-9 10.7% 2.4% 2.4% 15.8 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 10.5
8-10 8.7% 0.9% 0.9% 18.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 8.6
7-11 7.1% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 7.1
6-12 4.9% 4.9
5-13 3.3% 3.3
4-14 2.1% 2.1
3-15 1.0% 1.0
2-16 0.5% 0.5
1-17 0.1% 0.1
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 7.8% 7.8% 0.0% 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 1.6 2.1 1.9 1.2 0.4 92.2 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% 7.9 8.5 8.3 33.3 33.1 16.5 0.2
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 32.8% 11.0 32.8
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 66.1% 11.0 66.1
Lose Out 0.0%