Preseason Rankings
South Dakota
Summit League
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-7.3#294
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace83.8#3
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-0.2#166
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-7.2#357
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 4.3% 5.4% 3.0%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 16.4 15.0 15.4
.500 or above 26.1% 35.3% 14.4%
.500 or above in Conference 38.5% 45.6% 29.6%
Conference Champion 4.6% 5.9% 3.0%
Last Place in Conference 17.6% 13.1% 23.2%
First Four1.5% 1.6% 1.4%
First Round3.9% 5.0% 2.5%
Second Round0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
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: Utah Tech (Home) - 55.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 3
Quad 20 - 20 - 4
Quad 31 - 52 - 10
Quad 410 - 812 - 18


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 271   Utah Tech W 83-81 56%    
  Nov 05, 2025 24   @ Creighton L 71-96 1%    
  Nov 12, 2025 298   Southern Indiana W 84-81 61%    
  Nov 16, 2025 286   Western Michigan W 85-82 59%    
  Nov 20, 2025 37   @ Missouri L 74-98 2%    
  Nov 23, 2025 311   South Carolina St. W 85-81 64%    
  Nov 29, 2025 280   Air Force L 76-77 47%    
  Dec 03, 2025 213   Portland St. L 81-82 45%    
  Dec 06, 2025 190   @ Northern Colorado L 81-89 23%    
  Dec 09, 2025 155   @ Wyoming L 72-82 18%    
  Dec 13, 2025 341   Prairie View W 89-82 73%    
  Dec 20, 2025 57   @ Kansas St. L 71-91 4%    
  Dec 31, 2025 208   @ North Dakota St. L 76-84 26%    
  Jan 07, 2026 148   @ St. Thomas L 79-90 18%    
  Jan 10, 2026 321   Denver W 83-78 66%    
  Jan 15, 2026 301   UMKC W 77-74 61%    
  Jan 17, 2026 315   @ North Dakota L 85-87 44%    
  Jan 21, 2026 182   @ Nebraska Omaha L 80-89 23%    
  Jan 24, 2026 148   St. Thomas L 82-87 34%    
  Jan 29, 2026 310   Oral Roberts W 86-82 63%    
  Jan 31, 2026 208   North Dakota St. L 79-81 44%    
  Feb 04, 2026 301   @ UMKC L 74-77 41%    
  Feb 07, 2026 151   @ South Dakota St. L 80-91 19%    
  Feb 11, 2026 315   North Dakota W 88-84 64%    
  Feb 19, 2026 321   @ Denver L 80-81 47%    
  Feb 21, 2026 310   @ Oral Roberts L 83-85 44%    
  Feb 25, 2026 182   Nebraska Omaha L 83-86 41%    
  Feb 28, 2026 151   South Dakota St. L 83-88 35%    
Projected Record 11 - 17 7 - 9





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Summit League Finish

0-16 1-15 2-14 3-13 4-12 5-11 6-10 7-9 8-8 9-7 10-6 11-5 12-4 13-3 14-2 15-1 16-0 Total
1st 0.2 0.8 1.4 1.3 0.7 0.2 0.1 4.6 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 2.1 2.6 1.5 0.3 0.1 7.1 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.9 3.6 3.7 1.4 0.2 0.0 10.0 3rd
4th 0.1 1.4 4.6 4.4 1.2 0.1 11.6 4th
5th 0.2 1.9 6.0 4.8 1.1 0.0 14.0 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 2.5 6.0 4.5 0.8 0.0 13.9 6th
7th 0.0 0.4 3.1 6.0 4.0 0.7 0.0 14.3 7th
8th 0.0 0.9 3.4 5.1 3.2 0.5 0.0 13.1 8th
9th 0.6 2.0 3.6 3.4 1.4 0.3 0.0 11.4 9th
Total 0.6 2.1 4.6 7.2 9.9 12.1 12.5 12.6 11.1 9.6 7.2 4.9 3.1 1.6 0.7 0.2 0.1 Total



Summit League Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
16-0 100.0% 0.1    0.1
15-1 100.0% 0.2    0.2 0.0
14-2 90.3% 0.7    0.6 0.1 0.0
13-3 80.6% 1.3    0.9 0.4 0.0
12-4 46.4% 1.4    0.6 0.6 0.2 0.0
11-5 15.4% 0.8    0.1 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.0
10-6 2.8% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0
9-7 0.0%
8-8 0.0%
Total 4.6% 4.6 2.5 1.5 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
16-0 0.1% 56.9% 56.9% 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
15-1 0.2% 37.5% 37.5% 12.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
14-2 0.7% 30.5% 30.5% 13.7 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.5
13-3 1.6% 29.0% 29.0% 14.4 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.2
12-4 3.1% 19.6% 19.6% 14.8 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 2.5
11-5 4.9% 12.8% 12.8% 16.5 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 4.3
10-6 7.2% 9.2% 9.2% 18.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.4 6.5
9-7 9.6% 6.6% 6.6% 17.6 0.0 0.2 0.4 9.0
8-8 11.1% 3.6% 3.6% 17.8 0.1 0.4 10.7
7-9 12.6% 2.2% 2.2% 17.8 0.0 0.0 0.3 12.3
6-10 12.5% 1.6% 1.6% 16.0 0.2 12.3
5-11 12.1% 0.6% 0.6% 16.0 0.1 12.0
4-12 9.9% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 9.8
3-13 7.2% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 7.2
2-14 4.6% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 4.6
1-15 2.1% 2.1
0-16 0.6% 0.6
Total 100% 4.3% 4.3% 0.0% 16.4 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.8 1.4 2.2 95.7 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%