Preseason Rankings
SIU Edwardsville
Ohio Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-4.4#240
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace65.4#253
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-4.0#289
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-0.3#177
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 15.2% 20.9% 13.1%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 16.1 14.4 15.0
.500 or above 63.2% 81.1% 56.6%
.500 or above in Conference 75.2% 85.4% 71.5%
Conference Champion 20.5% 29.0% 17.4%
Last Place in Conference 3.0% 1.1% 3.6%
First Four3.1% 2.4% 3.4%
First Round15.0% 21.0% 12.7%
Second Round0.4% 0.9% 0.2%
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: Texas San Antonio (Away) - 27.0% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 00 - 1
Quad 20 - 10 - 2
Quad 32 - 42 - 6
Quad 414 - 716 - 13


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 07, 2025 167   @ Texas San Antonio L 68-74 27%    
  Nov 10, 2025 170   Indiana St. L 74-75 49%    
  Nov 14, 2025 114   @ Drake L 53-64 16%    
  Nov 17, 2025 26   @ Wisconsin L 58-80 2%    
  Nov 21, 2025 280   @ Air Force L 63-64 47%    
  Nov 23, 2025 292   Alabama St. W 69-66 60%    
  Dec 02, 2025 330   @ North Florida W 77-74 59%    
  Dec 06, 2025 286   Western Michigan W 72-66 69%    
  Dec 18, 2025 322   @ Eastern Illinois W 65-63 58%    
  Dec 22, 2025 339   @ Western Illinois W 66-62 63%    
  Jan 01, 2026 298   Southern Indiana W 71-65 70%    
  Jan 03, 2026 293   Morehead St. W 66-60 69%    
  Jan 06, 2026 327   Lindenwood W 72-64 76%    
  Jan 08, 2026 177   Arkansas Little Rock L 66-67 50%    
  Jan 15, 2026 323   @ Tennessee Martin W 68-66 57%    
  Jan 17, 2026 231   @ Southeast Missouri St. L 66-70 39%    
  Jan 22, 2026 259   Tennessee St. W 73-69 63%    
  Jan 24, 2026 328   Tennessee Tech W 73-64 76%    
  Jan 29, 2026 293   @ Morehead St. L 63-64 50%    
  Jan 31, 2026 298   @ Southern Indiana W 69-68 50%    
  Feb 03, 2026 327   @ Lindenwood W 69-67 58%    
  Feb 07, 2026 177   @ Arkansas Little Rock L 63-69 31%    
  Feb 12, 2026 231   Southeast Missouri St. W 69-67 59%    
  Feb 14, 2026 323   Tennessee Martin W 71-63 75%    
  Feb 19, 2026 328   @ Tennessee Tech W 70-67 58%    
  Feb 21, 2026 259   @ Tennessee St. L 70-72 43%    
  Feb 26, 2026 339   Western Illinois W 69-59 79%    
  Feb 28, 2026 322   Eastern Illinois W 68-60 74%    
Projected Record 15 - 13 12 - 8





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Ohio Valley 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 0.5 2.0 3.8 4.8 4.6 3.0 1.4 0.4 20.5 1st
2nd 0.0 0.1 1.1 3.7 5.4 4.2 2.0 0.6 0.1 17.2 2nd
3rd 0.1 1.4 4.2 4.4 2.5 0.7 0.1 13.4 3rd
4th 0.1 1.4 3.9 4.1 1.6 0.2 0.0 11.2 4th
5th 0.1 1.2 3.5 3.5 1.1 0.1 9.5 5th
6th 0.1 0.8 3.1 2.9 0.8 0.1 7.8 6th
7th 0.0 0.1 0.7 2.4 2.6 0.7 0.1 6.6 7th
8th 0.1 0.6 1.9 1.9 0.6 0.0 5.2 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.4 1.4 0.4 0.0 3.9 9th
10th 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.9 0.9 0.3 0.0 0.0 2.8 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 1.7 11th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.2 1.9 3.1 4.5 5.7 7.6 8.7 9.8 10.6 10.3 10.2 8.7 6.9 5.2 3.1 1.4 0.4 Total



Ohio Valley 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% 0.4    0.4
19-1 100.0% 1.4    1.3 0.0
18-2 96.8% 3.0    2.8 0.2
17-3 88.1% 4.6    3.9 0.7 0.0
16-4 70.1% 4.8    3.3 1.4 0.1
15-5 43.9% 3.8    2.0 1.5 0.3 0.0
14-6 19.8% 2.0    0.6 0.9 0.4 0.1 0.0
13-7 4.8% 0.5    0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0
12-8 0.3% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 20.5% 20.5 14.4 4.9 1.0 0.2 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 0.4% 67.4% 67.4% 12.5 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
19-1 1.4% 58.9% 58.9% 13.2 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.6
18-2 3.1% 48.9% 48.9% 13.7 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.0 1.6
17-3 5.2% 43.1% 43.1% 14.4 0.1 0.5 1.0 0.6 0.2 3.0
16-4 6.9% 34.0% 34.0% 15.5 0.0 0.2 0.7 1.1 0.4 4.5
15-5 8.7% 29.5% 29.5% 16.9 0.1 0.5 1.2 1.1 6.1
14-6 10.2% 22.2% 22.2% 17.6 0.0 0.2 1.0 1.3 7.9
13-7 10.3% 13.9% 13.9% 18.1 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.1 8.9
12-8 10.6% 7.5% 7.5% 18.9 0.0 0.2 0.8 9.8
11-9 9.8% 5.0% 5.0% 18.3 0.0 0.1 0.5 9.3
10-10 8.7% 2.7% 2.7% 16.8 0.0 0.2 8.5
9-11 7.6% 1.9% 1.9% 16.9 0.2 7.4
8-12 5.7% 1.0% 1.0% 17.2 0.1 5.7
7-13 4.5% 0.5% 0.5% 16.0 0.0 4.5
6-14 3.1% 3.1
5-15 1.9% 1.9
4-16 1.2% 1.2
3-17 0.6% 0.6
2-18 0.2% 0.2
1-19 0.1% 0.1
0-20 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 15.2% 15.2% 0.0% 16.1 0.1 0.6 1.7 3.3 4.9 5.9 84.8 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, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0%
Lose Out 0.0%