Preseason Rankings
St. Mary's
West Coast
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+11.2#49
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace57.7#360
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+3.7#79
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+7.5#17
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
#1 Seed 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 1.0% 1.0% 0.1%
Top 4 Seed 3.3% 3.6% 0.6%
Top 6 Seed 7.0% 7.6% 1.7%
NCAA Tourney Bid 34.7% 36.5% 17.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 16.5% 17.8% 5.8%
Average Seed 8.8 8.7 9.9
.500 or above 97.2% 98.0% 89.5%
.500 or above in Conference 95.7% 96.2% 90.7%
Conference Champion 25.6% 26.7% 15.5%
Last Place in Conference 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
First Four5.3% 5.6% 2.7%
First Round32.4% 34.1% 17.0%
Second Round17.0% 18.1% 6.7%
Sweet Sixteen5.9% 6.3% 2.0%
Elite Eight2.2% 2.4% 0.5%
Final Four0.7% 0.8% 0.0%
Championship Game0.2% 0.3% 0.0%
National Champion0.1% 0.1% 0.0%

Next Game: St. Thomas (Home) - 90.2% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b1 - 11 - 2
Quad 24 - 25 - 5
Quad 310 - 215 - 7
Quad 48 - 023 - 7


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 149   St. Thomas W 72-58 90%    
  Nov 07, 2025 134   Chattanooga W 70-58 88%    
  Nov 11, 2025 152   Ohio W 74-60 90%    
  Nov 14, 2025 88   North Texas W 59-51 77%    
  Nov 19, 2025 137   Arkansas St. W 72-59 87%    
  Nov 26, 2025 122   Wichita St. W 69-60 78%    
  Dec 07, 2025 145   @ Davidson W 66-59 74%    
  Dec 14, 2025 62   Boise St. W 63-61 57%    
  Dec 19, 2025 140   Florida Atlantic W 72-59 87%    
  Dec 22, 2025 112   Northern Iowa W 66-56 82%    
  Dec 28, 2025 135   @ Loyola Marymount W 66-60 71%    
  Dec 30, 2025 244   @ Pepperdine W 71-58 87%    
  Jan 02, 2026 265   Portland W 76-56 95%    
  Jan 04, 2026 121   Seattle W 66-54 84%    
  Jan 10, 2026 128   Washington St. W 73-61 85%    
  Jan 13, 2026 77   @ San Francisco W 64-63 53%    
  Jan 17, 2026 106   @ Santa Clara W 67-63 62%    
  Jan 21, 2026 117   Oregon St. W 67-56 83%    
  Jan 24, 2026 265   @ Portland W 73-59 88%    
  Jan 31, 2026 18   @ Gonzaga L 64-72 25%    
  Feb 04, 2026 180   San Diego W 75-60 90%    
  Feb 07, 2026 77   San Francisco W 67-60 72%    
  Feb 10, 2026 244   Pepperdine W 74-55 94%    
  Feb 14, 2026 219   @ Pacific W 69-57 83%    
  Feb 18, 2026 121   @ Seattle W 63-57 68%    
  Feb 21, 2026 128   @ Washington St. W 70-64 69%    
  Feb 25, 2026 106   Santa Clara W 70-60 79%    
  Feb 28, 2026 18   Gonzaga L 67-69 42%    
Projected Record 21 - 7 13 - 5





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected West Coast 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 0.0 0.4 1.9 6.0 8.6 6.5 2.1 25.6 1st
2nd 0.3 2.2 6.7 10.8 8.8 3.0 31.9 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.3 2.2 6.0 6.4 2.8 0.3 0.0 18.1 3rd
4th 0.0 0.2 1.9 4.2 3.2 1.0 0.1 10.6 4th
5th 0.1 1.0 2.7 1.7 0.4 0.0 6.0 5th
6th 0.1 0.7 1.5 1.1 0.1 3.5 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 1.1 0.6 0.1 2.1 7th
8th 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.0 1.1 8th
9th 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.6 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 10th
11th 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 11th
12th 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.2 2.2 3.5 6.2 8.7 11.9 14.5 15.6 15.2 11.5 6.5 2.1 Total



West Coast 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% 2.1    2.1
17-1 100.0% 6.5    5.5 1.0
16-2 74.2% 8.6    5.4 3.0 0.1
15-3 39.6% 6.0    2.8 2.8 0.4 0.0
14-4 12.5% 1.9    0.6 0.9 0.4 0.1
13-5 3.1% 0.4    0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0
12-6 0.3% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 25.6% 25.6 16.4 7.9 1.1 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
18-0 2.1% 98.3% 63.0% 35.3% 3.9 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 95.4%
17-1 6.5% 90.0% 53.2% 36.8% 6.3 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.6 78.7%
16-2 11.5% 75.2% 41.0% 34.3% 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.8 0.9 1.2 1.4 2.2 1.2 0.0 2.9 58.1%
15-3 15.2% 53.8% 31.4% 22.4% 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.7 1.1 2.9 2.8 0.1 0.0 7.0 32.7%
14-4 15.6% 32.9% 22.3% 10.6% 10.5 0.0 0.1 0.4 1.7 2.7 0.2 0.0 10.5 13.6%
13-5 14.5% 18.9% 14.6% 4.3% 10.8 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.8 0.3 0.0 11.8 5.1%
12-6 11.9% 11.1% 9.8% 1.3% 11.2 0.2 0.8 0.3 0.0 10.5 1.5%
11-7 8.7% 5.0% 5.0% 11.3 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.0 8.2
10-8 6.2% 3.6% 3.6% 11.6 0.1 0.1 0.0 6.0
9-9 3.5% 1.2% 1.2% 11.5 0.0 0.0 3.4
8-10 2.2% 1.0% 1.0% 12.3 0.0 0.0 2.2
7-11 1.2% 1.2% 1.2% 12.0 0.0 1.2
6-12 0.6% 0.6
5-13 0.2% 0.2
4-14 0.1% 0.1
3-15 0.0% 0.0
2-16
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18
Total 100% 34.7% 21.8% 12.9% 8.8 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.5 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.7 3.7 8.1 10.0 1.1 0.1 65.3 16.5%


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 0.7% 100.0% 2.4 25.9 33.9 22.3 13.0 3.0 1.0 1.0
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.2% 100.0% 3.7 10.0 6.7 23.5 26.6 29.9 3.3
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.1% 100.0% 4.0 16.0 10.4 15.6 21.2 10.8 10.4 5.2 10.4