Preseason Rankings
UC Santa Barbara
Big West
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+2.2#126
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace64.3#288
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+2.0#113
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+0.2#158
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% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 16.3% 18.5% 11.3%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
Average Seed 12.6 12.4 13.0
.500 or above 82.9% 88.1% 71.0%
.500 or above in Conference 83.9% 87.1% 76.6%
Conference Champion 19.5% 22.1% 13.3%
Last Place in Conference 1.2% 0.8% 2.0%
First Four0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
First Round16.3% 18.4% 11.3%
Second Round2.2% 2.5% 1.4%
Sweet Sixteen0.5% 0.5% 0.3%
Elite Eight0.1% 0.1% 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: San Jose St. (Home) - 69.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 21 - 21 - 3
Quad 35 - 56 - 8
Quad 413 - 319 - 11


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 08, 2025 159   San Jose St. W 71-66 70%    
  Nov 11, 2025 279   @ Sacramento St. W 70-64 70%    
  Nov 17, 2025 135   Loyola Marymount W 70-67 62%    
  Nov 22, 2025 104   @ Nevada L 62-68 31%    
  Nov 30, 2025 302   Lehigh W 74-64 82%    
  Dec 04, 2025 264   Long Beach St. W 72-61 82%    
  Dec 06, 2025 234   Cal St. Bakersfield W 73-64 79%    
  Dec 13, 2025 118   Utah Valley L 69-70 48%    
  Dec 17, 2025 306   @ Green Bay W 76-69 74%    
  Dec 22, 2025 265   Portland W 78-67 82%    
  Jan 01, 2026 336   @ Cal St. Fullerton W 73-63 80%    
  Jan 03, 2026 176   @ Cal St. Northridge W 75-74 51%    
  Jan 08, 2026 255   UC Davis W 72-62 81%    
  Jan 15, 2026 234   @ Cal St. Bakersfield W 70-67 60%    
  Jan 17, 2026 141   Hawaii W 69-65 62%    
  Jan 22, 2026 253   Cal Poly W 84-74 80%    
  Jan 24, 2026 264   @ Long Beach St. W 69-64 65%    
  Jan 29, 2026 119   @ UC San Diego L 66-69 39%    
  Jan 31, 2026 336   Cal St. Fullerton W 76-60 91%    
  Feb 05, 2026 255   @ UC Davis W 69-65 64%    
  Feb 07, 2026 92   UC Irvine L 69-70 48%    
  Feb 12, 2026 256   @ UC Riverside W 72-68 64%    
  Feb 14, 2026 253   @ Cal Poly W 81-77 62%    
  Feb 19, 2026 176   Cal St. Northridge W 78-72 70%    
  Feb 22, 2026 141   @ Hawaii L 66-68 43%    
  Feb 26, 2026 256   UC Riverside W 75-65 80%    
  Feb 28, 2026 92   @ UC Irvine L 66-72 30%    
  Mar 07, 2026 119   UC San Diego W 69-66 58%    
Projected Record 18 - 10 13 - 7





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big West 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 0.1 0.8 2.4 4.4 5.2 4.0 2.0 0.6 19.5 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 2.0 4.8 5.7 4.3 1.8 0.3 19.2 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.5 2.9 5.5 5.3 2.1 0.5 0.0 16.9 3rd
4th 0.0 0.7 3.1 5.0 3.5 1.0 0.1 13.5 4th
5th 0.1 0.6 2.9 3.8 2.2 0.5 0.0 10.0 5th
6th 0.0 0.7 2.2 3.0 1.4 0.2 7.5 6th
7th 0.0 0.5 1.7 2.2 0.7 0.1 5.2 7th
8th 0.0 0.5 1.2 1.5 0.6 0.1 3.9 8th
9th 0.1 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.3 0.0 2.3 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.1 1.3 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.6 11th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.0 1.7 2.6 4.2 5.7 7.4 9.0 10.6 11.5 12.0 10.4 9.2 7.0 4.3 2.0 0.6 Total



Big West 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% 0.6    0.6
19-1 100.0% 2.0    1.9 0.0
18-2 93.3% 4.0    3.5 0.5
17-3 73.5% 5.2    3.7 1.4 0.1
16-4 47.6% 4.4    2.2 1.8 0.3 0.0
15-5 23.4% 2.4    0.9 1.0 0.4 0.1
14-6 7.0% 0.8    0.2 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0
13-7 1.0% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 19.5% 19.5 13.0 5.2 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
20-0 0.6% 78.9% 66.0% 12.9% 9.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.1 37.9%
19-1 2.0% 61.8% 59.7% 2.1% 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.7 0.4 0.0 0.8 5.3%
18-2 4.3% 46.1% 45.6% 0.5% 11.7 0.0 0.8 1.0 0.1 0.0 2.3 0.9%
17-3 7.0% 37.6% 37.6% 12.2 0.0 0.4 1.5 0.6 0.1 0.0 4.4
16-4 9.2% 33.2% 33.2% 12.6 0.2 1.4 1.0 0.4 0.0 6.1
15-5 10.4% 23.0% 23.0% 12.9 0.0 0.7 1.2 0.4 0.1 8.0
14-6 12.0% 16.5% 16.5% 13.4 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.7 0.1 0.0 10.0
13-7 11.5% 11.6% 11.6% 13.7 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.0 10.2
12-8 10.6% 6.1% 6.1% 13.8 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 9.9
11-9 9.0% 3.3% 3.3% 14.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 8.7
10-10 7.4% 2.5% 2.5% 15.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 7.2
9-11 5.7% 1.6% 1.6% 15.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.6
8-12 4.2% 0.3% 0.3% 15.5 0.0 0.0 4.2
7-13 2.6% 2.6
6-14 1.7% 1.7
5-15 1.0% 1.0
4-16 0.5% 0.5
3-17 0.2% 0.2
2-18 0.1% 0.1
1-19 0.0% 0.0
0-20
Total 100% 16.3% 16.1% 0.1% 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 2.3 5.5 4.6 2.7 0.7 0.1 83.7 0.2%


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 0.1% 100.0% 5.9 14.2 28.4 14.7 7.1 7.1 14.2 7.1 7.1
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 80.0% 10.3 20.0 20.0 40.0
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 33.3% 11.0 33.3