Preseason Rankings
UC San Diego
Big West
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+2.7#117
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace64.9#270
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+0.9#136
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+1.8#117
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% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 18.9% 19.8% 11.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.4 12.3 13.1
.500 or above 82.1% 84.9% 60.1%
.500 or above in Conference 85.8% 87.4% 73.4%
Conference Champion 23.2% 24.7% 11.9%
Last Place in Conference 0.9% 0.7% 2.5%
First Four0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
First Round18.9% 19.8% 11.9%
Second Round2.7% 3.0% 0.8%
Sweet Sixteen0.6% 0.6% 0.2%
Elite Eight0.1% 0.1% 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: Houston Christian (Home) - 88.6% 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 - 3
Quad 36 - 57 - 8
Quad 412 - 219 - 11


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 08, 2025 289   Houston Christian W 72-59 89%    
  Nov 12, 2025 198   @ Fresno St. W 74-72 57%    
  Nov 15, 2025 235   Idaho W 75-65 82%    
  Nov 24, 2025 132   Temple W 72-71 54%    
  Dec 02, 2025 98   @ Nevada L 62-67 32%    
  Dec 06, 2025 264   @ Long Beach St. W 68-63 67%    
  Dec 14, 2025 116   Tulane L 69-70 48%    
  Dec 16, 2025 136   @ Loyola Marymount L 67-69 43%    
  Dec 19, 2025 183   San Diego W 77-70 74%    
  Jan 01, 2026 256   @ Cal Poly W 80-75 65%    
  Jan 03, 2026 134   Hawaii W 68-64 63%    
  Jan 08, 2026 337   Cal St. Fullerton W 75-59 91%    
  Jan 10, 2026 258   @ UC Riverside W 71-66 66%    
  Jan 15, 2026 176   Cal St. Northridge W 77-70 72%    
  Jan 17, 2026 223   @ Cal St. Bakersfield W 69-66 61%    
  Jan 22, 2026 252   @ UC Davis W 69-64 65%    
  Jan 24, 2026 93   UC Irvine W 69-68 51%    
  Jan 29, 2026 135   UC Santa Barbara W 70-66 63%    
  Jan 31, 2026 176   @ Cal St. Northridge W 74-73 53%    
  Feb 05, 2026 264   Long Beach St. W 71-60 82%    
  Feb 08, 2026 134   @ Hawaii L 65-67 44%    
  Feb 12, 2026 252   UC Davis W 72-61 81%    
  Feb 14, 2026 258   UC Riverside W 74-63 81%    
  Feb 21, 2026 93   @ UC Irvine L 66-72 32%    
  Feb 26, 2026 223   Cal St. Bakersfield W 72-63 78%    
  Feb 28, 2026 256   Cal Poly W 83-72 81%    
  Mar 05, 2026 337   @ Cal St. Fullerton W 72-62 80%    
  Mar 07, 2026 135   @ UC Santa Barbara L 67-69 43%    
Projected Record 18 - 10 13 - 7





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 0.9 2.7 4.9 5.9 5.2 2.7 0.8 23.2 1st
2nd 0.0 0.4 1.8 5.0 6.3 4.6 1.8 0.3 20.2 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.6 2.7 5.2 5.0 2.1 0.4 0.0 16.0 3rd
4th 0.1 0.6 2.8 4.5 3.4 0.9 0.1 12.4 4th
5th 0.0 0.6 2.4 4.0 2.1 0.5 0.0 9.7 5th
6th 0.0 0.5 2.1 2.6 1.3 0.2 6.7 6th
7th 0.0 0.5 1.5 1.9 0.8 0.1 4.8 7th
8th 0.0 0.4 1.0 1.3 0.4 0.1 3.3 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.3 0.0 2.2 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 1.1 10th
11th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.4 11th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.9 1.5 2.3 3.7 5.2 6.5 8.7 9.9 11.0 11.8 11.2 9.9 7.8 5.4 2.7 0.8 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% 0.8    0.8
19-1 100.0% 2.7    2.6 0.1
18-2 94.8% 5.2    4.5 0.7
17-3 76.4% 5.9    4.2 1.6 0.1
16-4 49.5% 4.9    2.7 1.8 0.4 0.0
15-5 23.6% 2.7    1.0 1.2 0.5 0.0 0.0
14-6 7.5% 0.9    0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0
13-7 1.2% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 23.2% 23.2 16.0 5.7 1.3 0.1 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 0.8% 69.2% 62.9% 6.3% 9.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.3 17.1%
19-1 2.7% 59.8% 57.0% 2.9% 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.9 0.4 0.0 0.0 1.1 6.7%
18-2 5.4% 50.6% 50.5% 0.2% 11.7 0.0 0.0 1.1 1.2 0.4 0.0 2.7 0.3%
17-3 7.8% 41.5% 41.4% 0.1% 12.1 0.0 0.7 1.7 0.7 0.1 0.0 4.6 0.1%
16-4 9.9% 34.0% 34.0% 12.5 0.0 0.2 1.5 1.2 0.4 0.0 6.5
15-5 11.2% 24.1% 24.1% 12.8 0.1 0.9 1.1 0.5 0.1 8.5
14-6 11.8% 17.5% 17.5% 13.1 0.0 0.5 0.9 0.6 0.1 0.0 9.7
13-7 11.0% 11.0% 11.0% 13.4 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.0 9.8
12-8 9.9% 7.8% 7.8% 13.9 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.0 9.1
11-9 8.7% 3.9% 3.9% 15.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 8.4
10-10 6.5% 2.6% 2.6% 15.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 6.4
9-11 5.2% 1.5% 1.5% 15.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.1
8-12 3.7% 1.0% 1.0% 15.8 0.0 0.0 3.7
7-13 2.3% 0.5% 0.5% 16.0 0.0 2.3
6-14 1.5% 1.5
5-15 0.9% 0.9
4-16 0.4% 0.4
3-17 0.2% 0.2
2-18 0.1% 0.1
1-19 0.0% 0.0
0-20
Total 100% 18.9% 18.8% 0.1% 12.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 3.2 6.6 5.0 2.6 0.7 0.2 81.1 0.2%


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 0.1% 100.0% 5.8 11.4 22.9 15.5 23.1 7.7 3.9 7.7 7.7
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 37.3% 10.3 0.3 24.5 12.5
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 60.1% 9.5 10.0 50.1