Preseason Rankings
Arizona
Big 12
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+18.0#11
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace73.6#52
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+11.0#8
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+7.1#21
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 2.3% 4.2% 1.2%
#1 Seed 10.7% 17.3% 6.8%
Top 2 Seed 22.6% 34.7% 15.6%
Top 4 Seed 45.6% 61.4% 36.2%
Top 6 Seed 64.5% 79.3% 55.7%
NCAA Tourney Bid 86.5% 94.8% 81.6%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 84.9% 94.0% 79.9%
Average Seed 4.7 3.9 5.2
.500 or above 94.2% 98.4% 91.7%
.500 or above in Conference 86.2% 92.1% 82.7%
Conference Champion 13.8% 19.0% 10.7%
Last Place in Conference 0.4% 0.2% 0.6%
First Four3.6% 1.7% 4.6%
First Round84.9% 93.9% 79.7%
Second Round70.3% 81.9% 63.4%
Sweet Sixteen41.5% 53.1% 34.6%
Elite Eight21.6% 28.9% 17.3%
Final Four10.8% 15.6% 8.0%
Championship Game5.1% 8.0% 3.4%
National Champion2.4% 3.8% 1.6%

Next Game: Florida (Neutral) - 37.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 3 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a4 - 74 - 7
Quad 1b4 - 28 - 9
Quad 26 - 114 - 10
Quad 33 - 017 - 10
Quad 46 - 023 - 10


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 5   Florida L 79-82 37%    
  Nov 07, 2025 269   Utah Tech W 89-62 99%    
  Nov 11, 2025 254   Northern Arizona W 89-63 99%    
  Nov 14, 2025 13   UCLA W 73-72 52%    
  Nov 19, 2025 4   @ Connecticut L 70-77 27%    
  Nov 24, 2025 322   Denver W 90-59 99.7%   
  Nov 29, 2025 260   Norfolk St. W 87-61 99%    
  Dec 06, 2025 22   Auburn W 80-75 68%    
  Dec 12, 2025 19   Alabama W 88-86 56%    
  Dec 16, 2025 166   Abilene Christian W 86-64 97%    
  Dec 20, 2025 35   San Diego St. W 74-69 65%    
  Dec 22, 2025 249   Bethune-Cookman W 90-64 99%    
  Dec 29, 2025 155   South Dakota St. W 89-68 96%    
  Jan 03, 2026 89   @ Utah W 82-73 78%    
  Jan 07, 2026 57   Kansas St. W 80-69 83%    
  Jan 10, 2026 56   @ TCU W 76-71 68%    
  Jan 14, 2026 69   Arizona St. W 84-71 86%    
  Jan 17, 2026 74   @ Central Florida W 85-78 73%    
  Jan 21, 2026 45   Cincinnati W 76-67 77%    
  Jan 24, 2026 58   West Virginia W 77-66 83%    
  Jan 26, 2026 9   @ BYU L 77-80 39%    
  Jan 31, 2026 69   @ Arizona St. W 81-74 71%    
  Feb 07, 2026 73   Oklahoma St. W 87-74 86%    
  Feb 09, 2026 14   @ Kansas L 75-78 42%    
  Feb 14, 2026 12   Texas Tech W 77-74 60%    
  Feb 18, 2026 9   BYU W 80-77 59%    
  Feb 21, 2026 1   @ Houston L 63-72 22%    
  Feb 24, 2026 24   @ Baylor L 73-74 50%    
  Feb 28, 2026 14   Kansas W 78-75 61%    
  Mar 02, 2026 20   Iowa St. W 78-73 65%    
  Mar 07, 2026 84   @ Colorado W 79-71 76%    
Projected Record 22 - 9 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big 12 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 0.3 1.8 3.7 4.4 2.8 0.7 13.8 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 3.1 5.7 4.6 1.5 0.1 15.5 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.5 3.3 6.1 3.6 0.7 0.0 14.1 3rd
4th 0.0 0.2 2.5 5.8 3.1 0.4 0.0 12.1 4th
5th 0.1 1.7 4.6 3.1 0.5 10.0 5th
6th 0.0 0.7 3.5 3.2 0.6 8.0 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 2.4 3.3 0.8 0.0 6.8 7th
8th 0.1 1.4 3.0 1.2 0.0 5.7 8th
9th 0.0 0.5 2.1 1.5 0.1 4.2 9th
10th 0.1 1.3 1.6 0.3 0.0 3.3 10th
11th 0.1 0.6 1.3 0.4 0.0 2.3 11th
12th 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.5 0.0 1.7 12th
13th 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.1 1.1 13th
14th 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.7 14th
15th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.4 15th
16th 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2 16th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.7 1.2 2.1 3.7 5.8 8.0 9.9 11.6 13.4 13.1 11.5 9.0 5.9 3.0 0.7 Total



Big 12 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% 0.7    0.7
17-1 95.3% 2.8    2.4 0.4
16-2 74.8% 4.4    2.8 1.5 0.1
15-3 41.0% 3.7    1.5 1.7 0.5 0.1
14-4 15.7% 1.8    0.3 0.8 0.5 0.2 0.0
13-5 2.2% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-6 0.1% 0.0    0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 13.8% 13.8 7.8 4.4 1.2 0.3 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 0.7% 100.0% 52.9% 47.1% 1.2 0.6 0.1 0.0 100.0%
17-1 3.0% 100.0% 37.3% 62.7% 1.3 2.1 0.7 0.1 0.0 100.0%
16-2 5.9% 100.0% 31.7% 68.3% 1.6 3.1 2.1 0.6 0.1 100.0%
15-3 9.0% 100.0% 24.8% 75.2% 2.1 2.7 3.4 2.0 0.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-4 11.5% 100.0% 17.1% 82.9% 2.9 1.5 3.2 3.4 2.2 0.9 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
13-5 13.1% 99.7% 11.5% 88.2% 3.9 0.5 1.8 3.4 3.3 2.3 1.1 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.7%
12-6 13.4% 99.3% 7.4% 91.9% 5.0 0.1 0.6 2.0 2.6 3.2 2.5 1.3 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.1 99.3%
11-7 11.6% 97.1% 3.6% 93.5% 6.1 0.0 0.6 1.3 2.5 2.5 1.9 1.3 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.3 97.0%
10-8 9.9% 91.7% 2.3% 89.4% 7.4 0.0 0.1 0.4 1.1 1.3 1.7 1.8 1.2 0.9 0.4 0.0 0.8 91.5%
9-9 8.0% 74.8% 0.9% 73.9% 8.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.2 1.0 1.2 0.6 0.0 2.0 74.5%
8-10 5.8% 47.1% 0.6% 46.5% 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.8 0.7 0.0 3.1 46.8%
7-11 3.7% 22.9% 0.6% 22.3% 10.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.0 2.8 22.5%
6-12 2.1% 5.0% 5.0% 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 5.0%
5-13 1.2% 1.7% 0.6% 1.2% 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.2 1.2%
4-14 0.7% 0.7
3-15 0.2% 0.2
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 86.5% 10.8% 75.7% 4.7 10.7 12.0 12.2 10.7 10.5 8.4 6.5 5.5 3.9 3.9 2.1 0.1 0.0 13.5 84.9%


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% 1.0 100.0
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.1% 100.0% 1.0 100.0