Preseason Rankings
Texas St.
Sun Belt
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-2.2#197
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace65.5#250
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-1.0#199
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-1.3#210
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 6.2% 8.6% 4.5%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 13.5 13.1 13.6
.500 or above 53.7% 69.1% 42.8%
.500 or above in Conference 60.2% 69.2% 53.8%
Conference Champion 7.4% 10.6% 5.1%
Last Place in Conference 4.0% 2.3% 5.2%
First Four0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
First Round6.2% 8.6% 4.5%
Second Round0.5% 0.7% 0.3%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.1% 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: Bowling Green (Away) - 41.4% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 00 - 0
Quad 20 - 20 - 3
Quad 34 - 74 - 9
Quad 410 - 514 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 212   @ Bowling Green L 70-72 41%    
  Nov 08, 2025 115   @ Tulane L 66-75 21%    
  Nov 12, 2025 168   Texas San Antonio W 74-73 55%    
  Nov 15, 2025 290   Texas Southern W 74-66 77%    
  Nov 18, 2025 166   Abilene Christian W 70-69 56%    
  Nov 21, 2025 162   Arkansas Little Rock W 69-68 54%    
  Nov 28, 2025 121   Seattle L 64-69 34%    
  Dec 03, 2025 172   @ Rice L 66-70 36%    
  Dec 10, 2025 189   Southern W 70-67 60%    
  Dec 17, 2025 137   Arkansas St. L 71-72 47%    
  Dec 20, 2025 167   South Alabama W 65-64 55%    
  Dec 31, 2025 130   @ Troy L 64-71 26%    
  Jan 03, 2026 347   @ Louisiana Monroe W 73-66 71%    
  Jan 08, 2026 276   @ Southern Miss W 73-72 54%    
  Jan 10, 2026 137   @ Arkansas St. L 68-75 28%    
  Jan 14, 2026 233   Louisiana W 71-66 65%    
  Jan 17, 2026 276   Southern Miss W 76-69 72%    
  Jan 22, 2026 274   @ Coastal Carolina W 67-66 53%    
  Jan 24, 2026 132   @ James Madison L 65-72 28%    
  Jan 28, 2026 185   Marshall W 72-69 58%    
  Jan 31, 2026 195   Old Dominion W 70-67 59%    
  Feb 04, 2026 243   @ Georgia Southern L 72-73 48%    
  Feb 11, 2026 130   Troy L 67-68 46%    
  Feb 14, 2026 347   Louisiana Monroe W 76-63 85%    
  Feb 19, 2026 167   @ South Alabama L 62-67 36%    
  Feb 21, 2026 233   @ Louisiana L 68-69 46%    
  Feb 27, 2026 204   Appalachian St. W 64-61 60%    
Projected Record 14 - 13 9 - 9





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Sun Belt 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 0.9 1.9 2.2 1.5 0.5 0.2 7.4 1st
2nd 0.2 1.4 2.8 2.3 0.9 0.1 7.6 2nd
3rd 0.1 1.5 3.6 2.5 0.7 0.0 8.5 3rd
4th 0.1 1.0 4.1 3.1 0.7 0.0 9.0 4th
5th 0.6 3.6 3.8 0.9 0.0 8.9 5th
6th 0.0 0.3 2.7 4.4 1.3 0.1 8.8 6th
7th 0.0 0.2 1.9 4.4 2.0 0.2 8.6 7th
8th 0.1 1.0 4.0 2.7 0.4 8.2 8th
9th 0.0 0.7 3.3 3.3 0.7 0.0 8.1 9th
10th 0.0 0.5 2.5 3.5 1.0 0.0 7.5 10th
11th 0.0 0.4 1.9 3.1 1.2 0.1 6.6 11th
12th 0.0 0.3 1.2 2.3 1.2 0.1 5.1 12th
13th 0.0 0.3 1.0 1.4 0.8 0.2 0.0 3.7 13th
14th 0.1 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.1 2.1 14th
Total 0.1 0.3 0.9 1.9 3.4 5.5 7.7 9.4 10.6 11.3 11.4 11.1 9.2 6.9 4.9 3.2 1.6 0.5 0.2 Total



Sun Belt 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% 0.2    0.2
17-1 100.0% 0.5    0.5 0.0
16-2 93.7% 1.5    1.2 0.3 0.0
15-3 70.0% 2.2    1.3 0.8 0.1
14-4 39.3% 1.9    0.8 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.0
13-5 12.8% 0.9    0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0
12-6 1.5% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 7.4% 7.4 4.1 2.2 0.7 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 0.2% 54.5% 54.5% 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
17-1 0.5% 49.3% 49.3% 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3
16-2 1.6% 42.8% 42.4% 0.4% 12.2 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.9 0.8%
15-3 3.2% 34.7% 34.7% 12.8 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.0 2.1
14-4 4.9% 23.1% 23.1% 13.1 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.0 3.8
13-5 6.9% 17.2% 17.2% 13.7 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.0 5.7
12-6 9.2% 9.2% 9.2% 14.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 8.3
11-7 11.1% 4.3% 4.3% 15.5 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 10.6
10-8 11.4% 1.9% 1.9% 15.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 11.2
9-9 11.3% 1.1% 1.1% 17.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 11.1
8-10 10.6% 0.5% 0.5% 17.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5
7-11 9.4% 9.4
6-12 7.7% 7.7
5-13 5.5% 5.5
4-14 3.4% 3.4
3-15 1.9% 1.9
2-16 0.9% 0.9
1-17 0.3% 0.3
0-18 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 6.2% 6.2% 0.0% 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.3 2.0 1.7 0.8 0.2 93.8 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
Win Out 0.0% 100.0% 10.5 50.0 50.0
Lose Out 0.0%