Preseason Rankings
Lafayette
Patriot League
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-8.2#308
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace65.9#239
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-6.1#335
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-2.1#247
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 7.8% 15.4% 7.1%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 17.6 15.3 15.6
.500 or above 32.3% 60.7% 29.9%
.500 or above in Conference 52.2% 73.1% 50.4%
Conference Champion 8.6% 18.1% 7.8%
Last Place in Conference 10.4% 3.7% 11.0%
First Four4.1% 5.8% 4.0%
First Round6.8% 14.8% 6.1%
Second Round0.1% 0.3% 0.1%
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: Saint Joseph's (Away) - 7.5% 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 31 - 41 - 8
Quad 413 - 1014 - 18


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 110   @ Saint Joseph's L 60-75 8%    
  Nov 08, 2025 38   @ Texas L 56-81 1%    
  Nov 13, 2025 165   Cornell L 72-77 33%    
  Nov 17, 2025 58   @ West Virginia L 53-74 3%    
  Nov 21, 2025 339   @ Stonehill W 65-64 49%    
  Nov 28, 2025 344   Le Moyne W 75-68 72%    
  Nov 29, 2025 247   Ball St. L 68-69 47%    
  Nov 30, 2025 210   Monmouth L 67-69 42%    
  Dec 05, 2025 362   Mercyhurst W 70-58 85%    
  Dec 08, 2025 278   @ Penn L 67-72 34%    
  Dec 18, 2025 192   @ Charlotte L 61-70 22%    
  Dec 20, 2025 79   @ Georgia Tech L 60-78 6%    
  Dec 31, 2025 227   Colgate L 67-69 45%    
  Jan 03, 2026 316   @ Loyola Maryland L 65-67 42%    
  Jan 07, 2026 280   Boston University W 63-62 55%    
  Jan 10, 2026 230   @ Navy L 64-71 26%    
  Jan 14, 2026 286   @ Bucknell L 65-69 36%    
  Jan 17, 2026 346   Holy Cross W 71-64 71%    
  Jan 21, 2026 280   @ Boston University L 60-65 34%    
  Jan 24, 2026 302   @ Lehigh L 65-68 38%    
  Jan 26, 2026 286   Bucknell W 68-66 55%    
  Jan 31, 2026 303   @ American L 61-64 40%    
  Feb 04, 2026 230   Navy L 67-68 45%    
  Feb 07, 2026 353   @ Army W 69-67 55%    
  Feb 11, 2026 316   Loyola Maryland W 68-64 61%    
  Feb 14, 2026 302   Lehigh W 68-65 58%    
  Feb 18, 2026 346   @ Holy Cross W 68-67 52%    
  Feb 21, 2026 303   American W 64-61 58%    
  Feb 25, 2026 227   @ Colgate L 64-72 27%    
  Feb 28, 2026 353   Army W 72-64 74%    
Projected Record 13 - 17 9 - 9





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Patriot League 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 0.1 0.7 1.7 2.4 2.1 1.1 0.5 0.1 8.6 1st
2nd 0.2 1.4 3.1 3.2 1.4 0.4 0.0 9.7 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.2 2.0 4.1 3.1 1.1 0.2 10.7 3rd
4th 0.3 2.5 4.9 2.7 0.5 0.0 11.0 4th
5th 0.2 2.7 5.2 2.9 0.5 0.0 11.4 5th
6th 0.0 0.3 2.6 5.2 3.0 0.4 0.0 11.6 6th
7th 0.0 0.5 2.4 4.8 2.7 0.4 0.0 10.8 7th
8th 0.0 0.7 2.8 4.0 2.5 0.4 10.5 8th
9th 0.0 0.2 1.0 2.6 3.2 1.6 0.3 9.1 9th
10th 0.2 0.6 1.3 2.1 1.6 0.7 0.1 6.7 10th
Total 0.2 0.7 1.5 3.1 5.0 7.3 8.5 10.4 11.3 11.3 10.5 8.8 7.4 6.0 3.9 2.5 1.2 0.5 0.1 Total



Patriot League 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% 0.1    0.1
17-1 100.0% 0.5    0.5
16-2 96.4% 1.1    1.1 0.1
15-3 84.1% 2.1    1.6 0.4 0.0
14-4 61.0% 2.4    1.5 0.8 0.1 0.0
13-5 28.6% 1.7    0.6 0.8 0.3 0.0
12-6 9.0% 0.7    0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0
11-7 0.9% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 8.6% 8.6 5.5 2.4 0.6 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 0.1% 61.4% 61.4% 13.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
17-1 0.5% 43.1% 43.1% 14.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3
16-2 1.2% 43.8% 43.8% 15.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.7
15-3 2.5% 35.8% 35.8% 16.6 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.3 1.6
14-4 3.9% 26.6% 26.6% 18.4 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.7 2.9
13-5 6.0% 20.3% 20.3% 18.6 0.0 0.4 1.0 4.8
12-6 7.4% 14.8% 14.8% 18.8 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.0 6.3
11-7 8.8% 11.2% 11.2% 18.6 0.0 0.1 1.0 7.8
10-8 10.5% 6.4% 6.4% 17.3 0.0 0.7 9.8
9-9 11.3% 4.6% 4.6% 16.6 0.0 0.5 10.8
8-10 11.3% 2.9% 2.9% 16.0 0.3 11.0
7-11 10.4% 1.5% 1.5% 16.0 0.2 10.3
6-12 8.5% 0.8% 0.8% 16.0 0.1 8.4
5-13 7.3% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 7.3
4-14 5.0% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 4.9
3-15 3.1% 3.1
2-16 1.5% 1.5
1-17 0.7% 0.7
0-18 0.2% 0.2
Total 100% 7.8% 7.8% 0.0% 17.6 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.7 1.9 5.9 92.2 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%