Preseason Rankings
St. John's
Big East
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+18.6#8
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace73.1#57
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+9.1#19
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+9.5#6
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 3.0% 3.0% 0.7%
#1 Seed 13.3% 13.4% 2.7%
Top 2 Seed 27.6% 27.8% 7.4%
Top 4 Seed 52.0% 52.3% 20.9%
Top 6 Seed 69.7% 70.1% 31.7%
NCAA Tourney Bid 90.4% 90.7% 68.3%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 87.5% 87.7% 65.5%
Average Seed 4.4 4.4 6.4
.500 or above 96.4% 96.6% 80.4%
.500 or above in Conference 92.8% 92.9% 77.6%
Conference Champion 29.0% 29.1% 13.5%
Last Place in Conference 0.4% 0.4% 1.3%
First Four2.3% 2.3% 5.5%
First Round89.3% 89.6% 64.2%
Second Round75.2% 75.5% 43.9%
Sweet Sixteen46.4% 46.7% 20.9%
Elite Eight24.6% 24.8% 7.4%
Final Four12.3% 12.4% 2.1%
Championship Game6.2% 6.3% 0.7%
National Champion3.0% 3.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Quinnipiac (Home) - 99.0% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 2 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a3 - 43 - 4
Quad 1b5 - 28 - 7
Quad 27 - 115 - 8
Quad 34 - 020 - 8
Quad 44 - 024 - 8


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 221   Quinnipiac W 90-65 99%    
  Nov 08, 2025 19   Alabama W 87-82 68%    
  Nov 15, 2025 226   William & Mary W 92-67 99%    
  Nov 20, 2025 286   Bucknell W 87-58 99%    
  Nov 24, 2025 20   Iowa St. W 74-72 58%    
  Nov 25, 2025 24   Baylor W 73-70 62%    
  Dec 06, 2025 30   Mississippi W 78-70 74%    
  Dec 13, 2025 208   Iona W 86-62 98%    
  Dec 16, 2025 83   DePaul W 81-66 91%    
  Dec 20, 2025 7   Kentucky L 78-79 48%    
  Dec 23, 2025 178   Harvard W 82-59 97%    
  Dec 31, 2025 68   @ Georgetown W 78-71 72%    
  Jan 03, 2026 61   Providence W 79-67 85%    
  Jan 06, 2026 66   @ Butler W 78-71 72%    
  Jan 10, 2026 25   @ Creighton W 75-74 51%    
  Jan 13, 2026 43   Marquette W 78-68 79%    
  Jan 17, 2026 39   @ Villanova W 70-67 60%    
  Jan 20, 2026 102   Seton Hall W 76-59 92%    
  Jan 24, 2026 50   @ Xavier W 78-73 65%    
  Jan 28, 2026 66   Butler W 81-68 85%    
  Feb 03, 2026 83   @ DePaul W 78-69 77%    
  Feb 06, 2026 4   Connecticut L 70-71 49%    
  Feb 09, 2026 50   Xavier W 81-70 82%    
  Feb 14, 2026 61   @ Providence W 76-70 70%    
  Feb 18, 2026 43   @ Marquette W 75-71 61%    
  Feb 21, 2026 25   Creighton W 78-72 70%    
  Feb 25, 2026 4   @ Connecticut L 68-74 30%    
  Feb 28, 2026 39   Villanova W 73-64 77%    
  Mar 03, 2026 68   Georgetown W 81-68 86%    
  Mar 06, 2026 102   @ Seton Hall W 73-62 81%    
Projected Record 22 - 8 14 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big East 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 0.1 0.6 2.1 5.0 7.5 7.3 4.7 1.7 29.0 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 2.0 5.3 7.7 7.0 4.1 1.1 27.5 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.6 2.7 5.2 5.3 2.8 0.6 0.1 17.1 3rd
4th 0.0 0.0 0.5 2.3 3.8 2.8 0.8 0.1 10.4 4th
5th 0.0 0.4 1.6 2.5 1.4 0.3 0.0 6.4 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.2 1.6 0.6 0.1 3.7 6th
7th 0.0 0.2 0.8 1.3 0.4 0.1 2.7 7th
8th 0.0 0.1 0.6 0.6 0.3 0.0 1.6 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.9 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 10th
11th 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 11th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.5 1.3 1.8 3.2 4.2 6.1 8.3 10.4 12.1 12.6 12.6 11.6 8.4 4.7 1.7 Total



Big East 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% 1.7    1.7
19-1 100.0% 4.7    4.4 0.3
18-2 87.0% 7.3    5.8 1.5 0.0
17-3 64.3% 7.5    5.0 2.2 0.2
16-4 39.5% 5.0    2.6 2.0 0.3 0.0
15-5 16.8% 2.1    0.7 1.0 0.4 0.1
14-6 5.1% 0.6    0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0
13-7 0.9% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.1% 0.0    0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 29.0% 29.0 20.3 7.3 1.1 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
20-0 1.7% 100.0% 71.2% 28.8% 1.2 1.4 0.3 100.0%
19-1 4.7% 100.0% 55.2% 44.8% 1.4 3.2 1.4 0.1 0.0 100.0%
18-2 8.4% 100.0% 46.1% 53.9% 1.7 3.9 3.2 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-3 11.6% 100.0% 38.4% 61.6% 2.2 3.1 4.4 2.8 1.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-4 12.6% 99.9% 28.9% 71.0% 3.1 1.3 3.1 3.9 2.6 1.2 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 99.9%
15-5 12.6% 99.7% 23.0% 76.7% 4.1 0.3 1.4 3.0 3.4 2.4 1.3 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 99.6%
14-6 12.1% 99.3% 17.5% 81.8% 5.1 0.0 0.4 1.7 2.5 2.8 2.1 1.6 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 99.2%
13-7 10.4% 97.5% 13.2% 84.3% 6.2 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.2 1.8 2.3 2.0 1.2 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.3 97.1%
12-8 8.3% 93.0% 8.4% 84.6% 7.3 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.8 1.3 1.7 1.6 1.1 0.8 0.1 0.6 92.4%
11-9 6.1% 80.4% 5.5% 74.8% 8.2 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.7 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.3 0.0 1.2 79.2%
10-10 4.2% 62.5% 5.0% 57.4% 8.9 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.3 0.0 1.6 60.5%
9-11 3.2% 35.9% 2.5% 33.4% 9.9 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.0 2.1 34.3%
8-12 1.8% 12.1% 1.6% 10.5% 10.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 1.5 10.6%
7-13 1.3% 3.9% 1.7% 2.2% 10.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.2 2.2%
6-14 0.5% 1.4% 1.4% 12.0 0.0 0.5
5-15 0.3% 0.3
4-16 0.2% 0.2
3-17 0.0% 0.0
2-18 0.1% 0.1
1-19 0.0% 0.0
0-20
Total 100% 90.4% 23.6% 66.9% 4.4 13.3 14.3 13.1 11.3 9.7 8.1 6.9 5.2 3.9 3.5 1.3 0.0 9.6 87.5%


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 0.5% 100.0% 1.1 89.8 10.2
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.1% 100.0% 1.2 79.9 20.1
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 100.0% 1.2 83.3 16.7