Preseason Rankings
Howard
Mid-Eastern
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-10.0#328
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace73.0#59
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-4.0#288
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-6.1#346
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 13.8% 22.3% 13.6%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 17.3 15.6 15.8
.500 or above 34.9% 68.1% 34.1%
.500 or above in Conference 66.5% 82.0% 66.1%
Conference Champion 21.8% 38.3% 21.4%
Last Place in Conference 6.2% 1.8% 6.3%
First Four10.7% 14.1% 10.6%
First Round9.2% 19.7% 8.9%
Second Round0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Sweet Sixteen0.0% 0.0% 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: Missouri (Home) - 2.4% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 20 - 20 - 4
Quad 30 - 31 - 7
Quad 412 - 1012 - 16


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 37   Missouri L 68-88 2%    
  Nov 09, 2025 284   Grambling St. L 68-69 49%    
  Nov 13, 2025 323   Alcorn St. W 72-69 60%    
  Nov 19, 2025 348   @ Stetson L 75-76 46%    
  Nov 22, 2025 333   Niagara W 71-70 52%    
  Nov 23, 2025 3   @ Duke L 56-91 0.1%   
  Nov 29, 2025 270   @ Mount St. Mary's L 70-77 27%    
  Dec 09, 2025 349   N.C. A&T W 77-75 58%    
  Dec 13, 2025 235   Hampton L 68-74 30%    
  Dec 16, 2025 225   @ Drexel L 63-72 21%    
  Dec 20, 2025 120   @ UNC Wilmington L 65-81 9%    
  Dec 30, 2025 72   @ Northwestern L 61-82 4%    
  Jan 03, 2026 312   @ South Carolina St. L 73-77 35%    
  Jan 10, 2026 360   @ Maryland Eastern Shore W 73-70 59%    
  Jan 12, 2026 341   Delaware St. W 80-76 64%    
  Jan 17, 2026 329   @ NC Central L 73-76 41%    
  Jan 24, 2026 358   Morgan St. W 82-75 73%    
  Jan 26, 2026 361   @ Coppin St. W 74-71 59%    
  Jan 31, 2026 260   Norfolk St. L 72-74 45%    
  Feb 07, 2026 312   South Carolina St. W 76-74 55%    
  Feb 09, 2026 97   Yale L 69-81 15%    
  Feb 14, 2026 360   Maryland Eastern Shore W 76-67 76%    
  Feb 16, 2026 341   @ Delaware St. L 77-79 44%    
  Feb 21, 2026 329   NC Central W 76-73 60%    
  Feb 28, 2026 358   @ Morgan St. W 79-78 54%    
  Mar 02, 2026 361   Coppin St. W 77-68 76%    
  Mar 05, 2026 260   @ Norfolk St. L 69-77 26%    
Projected Record 11 - 16 8 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Mid-Eastern 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 0.0 0.5 2.8 5.1 6.1 4.8 2.0 0.5 21.8 1st
2nd 0.1 1.3 5.7 7.9 5.4 2.2 0.4 23.0 2nd
3rd 0.0 1.6 6.6 6.2 2.4 0.3 0.0 17.2 3rd
4th 0.0 1.3 5.5 4.8 0.9 0.0 12.5 4th
5th 0.0 0.7 4.1 4.0 0.5 9.3 5th
6th 0.0 0.6 3.1 3.4 0.5 7.7 6th
7th 0.0 0.6 2.1 2.2 0.4 5.4 7th
8th 0.1 0.6 1.2 1.1 0.2 0.0 3.3 8th
Total 0.1 0.6 1.9 3.8 6.2 9.2 11.6 13.3 13.3 13.1 10.9 8.3 5.2 2.0 0.5 Total



Mid-Eastern 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% 2.0    1.9 0.1
12-2 91.9% 4.8    4.1 0.7
11-3 73.2% 6.1    4.3 1.7 0.1
10-4 46.9% 5.1    2.7 2.1 0.3 0.0
9-5 21.4% 2.8    0.6 1.4 0.7 0.1
8-6 4.0% 0.5    0.0 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0
7-7 0.1% 0.0    0.0
Total 21.8% 21.8 14.3 6.0 1.3 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% 59.9% 59.9% 15.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2
13-1 2.0% 49.9% 49.9% 17.2 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.6 1.0
12-2 5.2% 37.3% 37.3% 18.2 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.6 3.2
11-3 8.3% 31.1% 31.1% 17.8 0.1 0.4 2.4 5.7
10-4 10.9% 23.5% 23.5% 17.9 0.0 0.2 2.7 8.3
9-5 13.1% 16.2% 16.2% 16.9 0.0 2.2 11.0
8-6 13.3% 10.9% 10.9% 16.6 0.0 1.5 11.8
7-7 13.3% 7.1% 7.1% 16.1 1.0 12.3
6-8 11.6% 3.8% 3.8% 16.0 0.4 11.2
5-9 9.2% 2.8% 2.8% 16.0 0.3 8.9
4-10 6.2% 2.3% 2.3% 16.0 0.1 6.1
3-11 3.8% 0.9% 0.9% 16.0 0.0 3.8
2-12 1.9% 1.2% 1.2% 16.0 0.0 1.8
1-13 0.6% 0.6
0-14 0.1% 5.2% 5.2% 16.0 0.0 0.1
Total 100% 13.8% 13.8% 0.0% 17.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 1.7 12.9 86.2 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%