Preseason Rankings
UTEP
Conference USA
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-0.1#157
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace70.4#112
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-1.6#219
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+1.4#122
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 7.4% 9.7% 4.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.8 12.5 13.2
.500 or above 47.9% 59.9% 33.5%
.500 or above in Conference 55.3% 63.1% 45.9%
Conference Champion 8.7% 11.3% 5.6%
Last Place in Conference 8.7% 5.6% 12.4%
First Four0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
First Round7.4% 9.6% 4.8%
Second Round0.8% 1.2% 0.4%
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: Loyola Marymount (Home) - 54.3% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 21 - 41 - 5
Quad 36 - 77 - 12
Quad 47 - 314 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 11, 2025 136   Loyola Marymount W 70-69 54%    
  Nov 15, 2025 54   @ Utah St. L 66-79 11%    
  Nov 23, 2025 229   William & Mary W 79-75 63%    
  Nov 25, 2025 102   UAB L 72-77 33%    
  Dec 07, 2025 121   @ Seattle L 64-69 32%    
  Dec 14, 2025 134   @ Hawaii L 66-71 34%    
  Dec 21, 2025 251   Norfolk St. W 73-65 75%    
  Dec 29, 2025 143   @ Louisiana Tech L 64-68 37%    
  Jan 02, 2026 162   @ Missouri St. L 64-67 42%    
  Jan 04, 2026 210   @ Florida International L 70-71 50%    
  Jan 08, 2026 147   Middle Tennessee W 72-70 59%    
  Jan 10, 2026 156   Western Kentucky W 77-74 60%    
  Jan 15, 2026 242   @ Delaware W 76-75 55%    
  Jan 17, 2026 97   @ Liberty L 64-72 25%    
  Jan 22, 2026 210   Florida International W 74-68 69%    
  Jan 24, 2026 162   Missouri St. W 67-64 61%    
  Jan 28, 2026 143   Louisiana Tech W 67-65 57%    
  Jan 31, 2026 242   Delaware W 79-72 73%    
  Feb 04, 2026 194   @ Sam Houston St. L 71-72 47%    
  Feb 07, 2026 138   New Mexico St. W 67-66 54%    
  Feb 11, 2026 153   @ Jacksonville St. L 65-68 39%    
  Feb 14, 2026 97   Liberty L 67-69 43%    
  Feb 21, 2026 138   @ New Mexico St. L 64-69 36%    
  Feb 26, 2026 147   @ Middle Tennessee L 69-73 39%    
  Feb 28, 2026 156   @ Western Kentucky L 74-77 40%    
  Mar 05, 2026 142   Kennesaw St. W 76-74 57%    
  Mar 07, 2026 153   Jacksonville St. W 68-65 59%    
Projected Record 13 - 14 10 - 10





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Conference USA 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 0.2 0.8 1.9 2.3 1.9 1.1 0.4 0.1 8.7 1st
2nd 0.0 0.4 1.7 2.9 2.5 1.1 0.3 0.0 8.9 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.5 2.3 3.5 2.1 0.6 0.1 9.3 3rd
4th 0.0 0.4 2.6 3.9 2.0 0.4 0.0 9.3 4th
5th 0.0 0.3 2.4 4.1 2.0 0.4 0.0 9.1 5th
6th 0.0 0.3 2.0 4.3 2.2 0.4 0.0 9.2 6th
7th 0.2 1.8 4.0 2.5 0.4 0.0 8.9 7th
8th 0.0 0.2 1.5 3.9 2.6 0.4 0.0 8.5 8th
9th 0.0 0.2 1.4 3.4 2.5 0.5 0.0 8.1 9th
10th 0.0 0.3 1.4 2.7 2.3 0.6 0.0 0.0 7.4 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.7 1.6 2.3 1.6 0.4 0.1 6.9 11th
12th 0.1 0.5 1.0 1.4 1.4 0.9 0.3 0.0 5.5 12th
Total 0.1 0.5 1.1 2.2 3.3 4.9 6.2 7.8 9.2 9.4 10.1 9.9 9.1 7.8 6.2 4.9 3.5 2.2 1.1 0.4 0.1 Total



Conference USA 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% 0.1    0.1
19-1 100.0% 0.4    0.4 0.0
18-2 98.1% 1.1    1.0 0.1
17-3 88.4% 1.9    1.6 0.3 0.0
16-4 64.9% 2.3    1.5 0.7 0.1
15-5 37.7% 1.9    0.9 0.7 0.2 0.0 0.0
14-6 13.4% 0.8    0.2 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0
13-7 2.7% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 8.7% 8.7 5.6 2.3 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
20-0 0.1% 64.6% 58.7% 5.9% 8.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.3%
19-1 0.4% 61.0% 52.5% 8.5% 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 18.0%
18-2 1.1% 45.0% 43.6% 1.5% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.6 2.6%
17-3 2.2% 30.7% 30.5% 0.2% 11.6 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 1.5 0.3%
16-4 3.5% 24.9% 24.9% 12.0 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.0 2.6
15-5 4.9% 23.1% 23.1% 12.3 0.1 0.6 0.4 0.1 3.8
14-6 6.2% 16.6% 16.6% 12.6 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 5.2
13-7 7.8% 13.5% 13.5% 13.1 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.0 6.8
12-8 9.1% 9.4% 9.4% 13.4 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 8.2
11-9 9.9% 4.6% 4.6% 14.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 9.4
10-10 10.1% 3.1% 3.1% 15.6 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 9.8
9-11 9.4% 0.9% 0.9% 16.5 0.0 0.1 0.0 9.3
8-12 9.2% 1.2% 1.2% 16.9 0.0 0.1 9.0
7-13 7.8% 0.7% 0.7% 19.6 0.0 0.1 7.8
6-14 6.2% 0.1% 0.1% 31.6 0.0 6.2
5-15 4.9% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 4.9
4-16 3.3% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 3.3
3-17 2.2% 2.2
2-18 1.1% 1.1
1-19 0.5% 0.5
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 7.4% 7.4% 0.1% 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.1 2.4 2.0 1.1 0.5 0.2 92.6 0.1%


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% 4.0 100.0
Lose Out 0.0%