Preseason Rankings
Cornell
Ivy League
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-0.6#165
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace75.4#27
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+3.0#93
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-3.7#295
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 12.5% 17.2% 10.5%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 13.5 12.9 13.5
.500 or above 52.5% 71.1% 44.7%
.500 or above in Conference 65.6% 75.9% 61.3%
Conference Champion 15.4% 22.0% 12.6%
Last Place in Conference 8.4% 4.8% 9.8%
First Four0.3% 0.1% 0.4%
First Round12.6% 17.3% 10.6%
Second Round1.1% 1.7% 0.8%
Sweet Sixteen0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
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: Kent St. (Away) - 29.5% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 21 - 31 - 5
Quad 34 - 54 - 10
Quad 49 - 313 - 13


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 07, 2025 127   @ Kent St. L 73-79 29%    
  Nov 09, 2025 105   @ Illinois St. L 74-82 23%    
  Nov 13, 2025 308   @ Lafayette W 77-72 67%    
  Nov 18, 2025 353   Army W 86-71 92%    
  Nov 20, 2025 227   Colgate W 81-75 70%    
  Nov 30, 2025 286   @ Bucknell W 79-76 62%    
  Dec 02, 2025 101   @ George Mason L 68-77 22%    
  Dec 03, 2025 136   @ Towson L 71-76 32%    
  Dec 07, 2025 171   @ Samford L 82-85 41%    
  Dec 21, 2025 296   @ Albany W 81-77 63%    
  Dec 29, 2025 21   @ Michigan St. L 67-87 5%    
  Jan 05, 2026 267   Columbia W 89-81 76%    
  Jan 10, 2026 229   Dartmouth W 83-77 70%    
  Jan 17, 2026 97   @ Yale L 74-83 22%    
  Jan 19, 2026 169   @ Brown L 73-76 41%    
  Jan 24, 2026 178   @ Harvard L 74-76 42%    
  Jan 30, 2026 179   Princeton W 79-75 62%    
  Jan 31, 2026 278   Penn W 84-75 76%    
  Feb 07, 2026 267   @ Columbia W 86-84 56%    
  Feb 13, 2026 179   @ Princeton L 76-78 42%    
  Feb 14, 2026 278   @ Penn W 81-78 60%    
  Feb 21, 2026 178   Harvard W 77-73 62%    
  Feb 27, 2026 97   Yale L 77-80 40%    
  Feb 28, 2026 169   Brown W 76-73 60%    
  Mar 07, 2026 229   @ Dartmouth W 81-80 51%    
Projected Record 13 - 12 8 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Ivy League Finish

0-14 1-13 2-12 3-11 4-10 5-9 6-8 7-7 8-6 9-5 10-4 11-3 12-2 13-1 14-0 Total
1st 0.1 0.8 2.8 5.0 4.0 2.2 0.5 15.4 1st
2nd 0.1 2.0 5.9 6.4 3.2 0.6 18.2 2nd
3rd 0.2 2.7 7.1 5.0 1.3 0.1 16.5 3rd
4th 0.2 2.7 6.9 4.5 0.6 0.0 14.8 4th
5th 0.2 2.6 6.0 3.2 0.3 0.0 12.3 5th
6th 0.0 0.3 2.1 5.1 2.4 0.2 10.2 6th
7th 0.0 0.5 1.9 3.6 1.5 0.1 7.7 7th
8th 0.1 0.8 1.5 1.7 0.6 0.1 4.8 8th
Total 0.1 0.8 2.0 4.0 6.5 9.4 11.5 13.1 14.1 12.3 10.6 8.3 4.6 2.2 0.5 Total



Ivy League Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
14-0 100.0% 0.5    0.5
13-1 100.0% 2.2    2.1 0.1
12-2 87.8% 4.0    3.0 1.0 0.0
11-3 60.8% 5.0    2.8 2.0 0.2
10-4 26.6% 2.8    0.8 1.4 0.6 0.1
9-5 6.2% 0.8    0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0
8-6 0.4% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0
7-7 0.0%
Total 15.4% 15.4 9.2 4.8 1.2 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
14-0 0.5% 64.5% 63.1% 1.4% 11.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 3.7%
13-1 2.2% 50.4% 50.1% 0.3% 11.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.6%
12-2 4.6% 39.9% 39.9% 12.4 0.0 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.0 2.7
11-3 8.3% 31.8% 31.8% 13.0 0.1 0.8 1.0 0.6 0.1 0.0 5.7
10-4 10.6% 22.8% 22.8% 13.5 0.0 0.5 0.8 0.7 0.3 0.0 8.2
9-5 12.3% 16.7% 16.7% 14.4 0.1 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.1 10.3
8-6 14.1% 11.5% 11.5% 15.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.7 0.3 12.4
7-7 13.1% 3.5% 3.5% 16.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 12.6
6-8 11.5% 0.4% 0.4% 16.0 0.0 11.4
5-9 9.4% 9.4
4-10 6.5% 6.5
3-11 4.0% 4.0
2-12 2.0% 2.0
1-13 0.8% 0.8
0-14 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 12.5% 12.5% 0.0% 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.0 2.9 3.3 2.8 2.0 0.7 87.5 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 0.0%