Preseason Rankings
Southern Indiana
Ohio Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-8.4#311
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace67.5#195
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-3.4#275
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-5.0#322
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 5.1% 11.7% 4.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 16.9 15.0 15.4
.500 or above 33.7% 68.4% 32.8%
.500 or above in Conference 47.4% 71.1% 46.7%
Conference Champion 6.0% 16.2% 5.7%
Last Place in Conference 10.6% 2.6% 10.8%
First Four1.8% 2.1% 1.8%
First Round4.7% 11.5% 4.5%
Second Round0.0% 0.3% 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: Butler (Away) - 2.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 00 - 1
Quad 20 - 10 - 2
Quad 31 - 51 - 6
Quad 411 - 1012 - 16


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 05, 2025 66   @ Butler L 63-83 3%    
  Nov 07, 2025 293   VMI W 73-71 57%    
  Nov 12, 2025 294   @ South Dakota L 80-84 36%    
  Nov 20, 2025 214   Incarnate Word L 67-72 32%    
  Nov 26, 2025 261   @ Valparaiso L 69-75 30%    
  Dec 03, 2025 282   @ Western Michigan L 70-75 35%    
  Dec 07, 2025 173   @ Indiana St. L 73-83 19%    
  Dec 18, 2025 162   Arkansas Little Rock L 67-72 34%    
  Dec 20, 2025 291   Morehead St. W 68-66 56%    
  Jan 01, 2026 240   @ SIU Edwardsville L 65-72 28%    
  Jan 03, 2026 326   @ Lindenwood L 71-73 46%    
  Jan 08, 2026 228   Southeast Missouri St. L 70-72 45%    
  Jan 10, 2026 325   Tennessee Martin W 72-68 65%    
  Jan 15, 2026 324   @ Tennessee Tech L 71-73 45%    
  Jan 17, 2026 268   @ Tennessee St. L 71-77 32%    
  Jan 22, 2026 321   Eastern Illinois W 70-66 64%    
  Jan 24, 2026 343   Western Illinois W 71-65 69%    
  Jan 29, 2026 326   Lindenwood W 74-70 64%    
  Jan 31, 2026 240   SIU Edwardsville L 68-69 46%    
  Feb 05, 2026 325   @ Tennessee Martin L 69-71 45%    
  Feb 07, 2026 228   @ Southeast Missouri St. L 67-75 26%    
  Feb 12, 2026 268   Tennessee St. W 75-74 51%    
  Feb 14, 2026 324   Tennessee Tech W 74-70 65%    
  Feb 19, 2026 343   @ Western Illinois W 68-67 51%    
  Feb 21, 2026 321   @ Eastern Illinois L 67-69 44%    
  Feb 24, 2026 291   @ Morehead St. L 65-69 37%    
  Feb 28, 2026 162   @ Arkansas Little Rock L 64-75 19%    
Projected Record 11 - 16 9 - 11





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Ohio Valley Finish

0-20 1-19 2-18 3-17 4-16 5-15 6-14 7-13 8-12 9-11 10-10 11-9 12-8 13-7 14-6 15-5 16-4 17-3 18-2 19-1 20-0 Total
1st 0.0 0.3 0.7 1.4 1.5 1.2 0.6 0.2 0.1 6.0 1st
2nd 0.1 0.8 2.2 2.8 1.6 0.7 0.2 0.0 8.3 2nd
3rd 0.2 1.2 3.3 3.2 1.5 0.3 0.0 9.7 3rd
4th 0.1 1.4 3.8 3.2 1.2 0.2 0.0 10.0 4th
5th 0.0 0.1 1.8 4.3 3.2 0.8 0.1 10.2 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.7 4.4 3.4 0.9 0.1 10.6 6th
7th 0.2 1.8 4.5 3.7 0.7 0.0 10.9 7th
8th 0.2 1.7 4.1 3.0 0.7 0.0 9.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 1.9 3.4 2.6 0.6 0.1 9.1 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.8 1.9 2.9 2.1 0.6 0.0 8.4 10th
11th 0.1 0.7 1.4 2.0 1.8 0.8 0.2 7.0 11th
Total 0.1 0.7 1.5 2.8 4.1 5.9 7.6 9.3 9.9 10.7 10.0 9.2 8.3 7.0 5.2 3.3 2.2 1.4 0.6 0.2 0.1 Total



Ohio Valley Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
20-0 100.0% 0.1    0.1
19-1 100.0% 0.2    0.2
18-2 92.9% 0.6    0.5 0.0
17-3 85.3% 1.2    1.0 0.2
16-4 67.8% 1.5    0.9 0.5 0.0
15-5 42.9% 1.4    0.7 0.6 0.1 0.0
14-6 14.0% 0.7    0.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0
13-7 4.5% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0
12-8 0.5% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 6.0% 6.0 3.6 1.8 0.5 0.1 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
20-0 0.1% 66.7% 66.7% 13.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
19-1 0.2% 30.8% 30.8% 15.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
18-2 0.6% 45.3% 45.3% 14.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.3
17-3 1.4% 33.8% 33.8% 14.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.9
16-4 2.2% 29.7% 29.7% 15.9 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.2 1.5
15-5 3.3% 23.0% 23.0% 17.2 0.0 0.5 0.3 2.6
14-6 5.2% 15.3% 15.3% 17.7 0.0 0.3 0.6 4.4
13-7 7.0% 10.0% 10.0% 19.4 0.0 0.2 0.6 6.3
12-8 8.3% 7.7% 7.7% 17.4 0.0 0.1 0.6 7.6
11-9 9.2% 3.6% 3.6% 16.8 0.1 0.3 8.9
10-10 10.0% 2.3% 2.3% 17.9 0.0 0.2 9.8
9-11 10.7% 1.0% 1.0% 16.9 0.0 0.1 10.6
8-12 9.9% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 9.9
7-13 9.3% 9.3
6-14 7.6% 7.6
5-15 5.9% 5.9
4-16 4.1% 4.1
3-17 2.8% 2.8
2-18 1.5% 1.5
1-19 0.7% 0.7
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 5.1% 5.1% 0.0% 16.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.7 1.7 3.0 94.9 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 0.1%