Preseason Rankings
Clemson
Atlantic Coast
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+12.3#42
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace62.2#331
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+5.6#50
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+6.7#25
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
#1 Seed 0.8% 0.8% 2.0%
Top 2 Seed 2.3% 2.3% 2.0%
Top 4 Seed 8.2% 8.2% 2.0%
Top 6 Seed 17.5% 17.6% 6.1%
NCAA Tourney Bid 51.4% 51.5% 20.3%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 49.0% 49.2% 20.3%
Average Seed 7.4 7.4 7.5
.500 or above 85.0% 85.2% 48.8%
.500 or above in Conference 74.3% 74.4% 51.2%
Conference Champion 6.4% 6.4% 4.1%
Last Place in Conference 1.8% 1.8% 6.1%
First Four6.7% 6.7% 4.1%
First Round48.0% 48.1% 20.3%
Second Round29.9% 30.0% 12.2%
Sweet Sixteen11.2% 11.2% 4.1%
Elite Eight4.5% 4.5% 0.0%
Final Four1.6% 1.6% 0.0%
Championship Game0.6% 0.6% 0.0%
National Champion0.2% 0.2% 0.0%

Next Game: New Hampshire (Home) - 99.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 10 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 41 - 4
Quad 1b3 - 34 - 7
Quad 26 - 310 - 11
Quad 35 - 114 - 11
Quad 46 - 020 - 12


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 356   New Hampshire W 81-52 99.7%   
  Nov 07, 2025 307   Gardner-Webb W 80-56 99%    
  Nov 11, 2025 291   Morehead St. W 74-51 98%    
  Nov 15, 2025 68   @ Georgetown W 68-67 53%    
  Nov 17, 2025 191   North Alabama W 75-58 94%    
  Nov 21, 2025 58   West Virginia W 65-62 60%    
  Nov 28, 2025 327   Alabama A&M W 83-58 99%    
  Dec 03, 2025 19   @ Alabama L 73-80 27%    
  Dec 08, 2025 9   BYU L 67-73 30%    
  Dec 13, 2025 246   Mercer W 79-59 96%    
  Dec 16, 2025 71   South Carolina W 68-61 74%    
  Dec 21, 2025 45   Cincinnati W 64-63 51%    
  Dec 31, 2025 64   @ Syracuse W 70-69 50%    
  Jan 03, 2026 80   @ Pittsburgh W 68-65 58%    
  Jan 07, 2026 46   SMU W 71-68 62%    
  Jan 10, 2026 63   @ Notre Dame W 65-64 50%    
  Jan 13, 2026 96   Boston College W 72-62 80%    
  Jan 17, 2026 55   Miami (FL) W 72-67 67%    
  Jan 20, 2026 31   North Carolina St. W 66-65 55%    
  Jan 24, 2026 79   @ Georgia Tech W 70-67 58%    
  Jan 31, 2026 80   Pittsburgh W 71-62 77%    
  Feb 04, 2026 99   @ Stanford W 68-64 65%    
  Feb 07, 2026 91   @ California W 70-66 62%    
  Feb 11, 2026 76   Virginia Tech W 70-62 75%    
  Feb 14, 2026 3   @ Duke L 60-73 14%    
  Feb 18, 2026 67   @ Wake Forest W 67-66 53%    
  Feb 21, 2026 75   Florida St. W 73-65 75%    
  Feb 28, 2026 10   Louisville L 69-72 41%    
  Mar 03, 2026 23   @ North Carolina L 69-75 32%    
  Mar 07, 2026 79   Georgia Tech W 73-64 76%    
Projected Record 19 - 11 11 - 7





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Atlantic Coast 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 0.2 0.9 1.9 1.9 1.2 0.2 6.4 1st
2nd 0.1 0.4 2.2 3.7 2.7 0.9 0.1 9.9 2nd
3rd 0.4 2.5 4.4 2.6 0.5 0.0 10.4 3rd
4th 0.1 1.8 4.7 2.9 0.5 0.0 10.1 4th
5th 0.0 1.0 4.0 3.4 0.6 0.0 9.0 5th
6th 0.4 3.3 4.0 1.0 0.0 8.8 6th
7th 0.1 1.6 4.3 1.8 0.1 7.8 7th
8th 0.5 3.5 2.3 0.2 0.0 6.4 8th
9th 0.1 1.6 3.3 0.8 0.0 5.7 9th
10th 0.0 0.6 3.0 1.4 0.1 5.0 10th
11th 0.1 1.6 2.3 0.4 0.0 4.4 11th
12th 0.0 0.7 2.1 1.0 0.1 3.9 12th
13th 0.2 1.6 1.4 0.1 3.3 13th
14th 0.1 0.8 1.7 0.4 0.0 2.9 14th
15th 0.0 0.3 1.1 0.6 0.1 0.0 2.1 15th
16th 0.1 0.7 0.7 0.2 1.8 16th
17th 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.0 1.4 17th
18th 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.8 18th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.7 1.8 3.0 4.9 6.2 8.5 10.6 11.8 12.3 12.1 10.3 7.8 5.1 2.8 1.3 0.2 Total



Atlantic Coast 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% 0.2    0.2
17-1 91.6% 1.2    0.9 0.3 0.0
16-2 68.3% 1.9    1.1 0.7 0.1
15-3 37.7% 1.9    0.7 0.9 0.3 0.0
14-4 12.2% 0.9    0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0
13-5 1.5% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.0 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 6.4% 6.4 3.0 2.4 0.8 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
18-0 0.2% 100.0% 36.5% 63.5% 1.6 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-1 1.3% 100.0% 30.5% 69.5% 2.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-2 2.8% 100.0% 20.6% 79.4% 3.4 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 100.0%
15-3 5.1% 99.6% 15.6% 84.0% 4.8 0.1 0.3 0.9 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.5%
14-4 7.8% 97.8% 10.3% 87.5% 6.1 0.0 0.1 0.4 1.0 1.4 1.6 1.4 1.0 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.2 97.5%
13-5 10.3% 90.9% 7.8% 83.1% 7.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.9 1.5 2.0 1.6 1.6 1.0 0.2 0.9 90.1%
12-6 12.1% 78.5% 4.1% 74.4% 8.3 0.1 0.4 0.8 1.5 2.2 2.1 1.9 0.5 2.6 77.6%
11-7 12.3% 62.1% 3.0% 59.1% 9.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.1 2.0 2.6 1.0 4.7 60.9%
10-8 11.8% 41.7% 1.7% 40.1% 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.0 2.1 1.0 0.0 6.9 40.8%
9-9 10.6% 20.5% 0.9% 19.6% 10.1 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.9 0.7 0.0 8.4 19.8%
8-10 8.5% 7.7% 0.1% 7.7% 10.4 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.0 7.8 7.7%
7-11 6.2% 1.8% 0.2% 1.6% 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 6.1 1.6%
6-12 4.9% 0.1% 0.1% 13.0 0.0 4.9
5-13 3.0% 3.0
4-14 1.8% 1.8
3-15 0.7% 0.7
2-16 0.5% 0.5
1-17 0.1% 0.1
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 51.4% 4.6% 46.8% 7.4 0.8 1.4 2.3 3.6 4.2 5.1 6.3 7.0 7.6 9.1 3.8 0.1 0.0 48.6 49.0%


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 0.0% 100.0% 1.0 100.0
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 100.0% 1.0 100.0