Preseason Rankings
Boston University
Patriot League
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-6.6#280
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace60.4#351
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-4.4#299
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-2.1#245
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 11.5% 16.5% 9.5%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 17.0 15.1 15.5
.500 or above 47.0% 66.8% 39.2%
.500 or above in Conference 65.0% 76.9% 60.3%
Conference Champion 13.8% 20.9% 11.1%
Last Place in Conference 6.0% 2.9% 7.3%
First Four5.0% 5.3% 4.9%
First Round10.4% 15.6% 8.3%
Second Round0.2% 0.5% 0.1%
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: Northeastern (Away) - 28.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 20 - 10 - 2
Quad 31 - 41 - 7
Quad 414 - 1015 - 16


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 218   @ Northeastern L 62-68 28%    
  Nov 07, 2025 72   @ Northwestern L 54-71 6%    
  Nov 12, 2025 169   Brown L 61-64 40%    
  Nov 15, 2025 258   Merrimack W 61-59 56%    
  Nov 18, 2025 267   @ Columbia L 69-73 37%    
  Nov 22, 2025 178   Harvard L 61-66 32%    
  Nov 25, 2025 90   @ Penn St. L 60-75 9%    
  Nov 29, 2025 266   @ Northern Kentucky L 61-65 37%    
  Dec 06, 2025 356   @ New Hampshire W 67-63 63%    
  Dec 10, 2025 285   Maine W 64-60 62%    
  Dec 13, 2025 229   @ Dartmouth L 64-70 31%    
  Dec 21, 2025 301   Umass Lowell W 70-66 64%    
  Dec 31, 2025 230   @ Navy L 62-68 31%    
  Jan 03, 2026 303   American W 64-59 65%    
  Jan 07, 2026 308   @ Lafayette L 62-63 45%    
  Jan 10, 2026 353   Army W 70-61 79%    
  Jan 14, 2026 302   Lehigh W 67-63 65%    
  Jan 17, 2026 316   @ Loyola Maryland L 64-65 47%    
  Jan 21, 2026 308   Lafayette W 65-60 66%    
  Jan 24, 2026 227   @ Colgate L 63-69 31%    
  Jan 28, 2026 230   Navy W 66-65 50%    
  Jan 31, 2026 286   @ Bucknell L 64-66 42%    
  Feb 02, 2026 346   @ Holy Cross W 66-64 58%    
  Feb 07, 2026 316   Loyola Maryland W 67-62 66%    
  Feb 11, 2026 353   @ Army W 67-64 61%    
  Feb 14, 2026 286   Bucknell W 67-63 61%    
  Feb 16, 2026 227   Colgate W 66-65 50%    
  Feb 21, 2026 302   @ Lehigh L 64-66 44%    
  Feb 25, 2026 346   Holy Cross W 69-61 75%    
  Feb 28, 2026 303   @ American L 61-62 45%    
Projected Record 14 - 16 10 - 8





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Patriot League 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 0.8 2.4 3.7 3.5 2.2 1.0 0.2 13.8 1st
2nd 0.2 1.9 4.2 4.6 2.4 0.8 0.1 14.1 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.2 2.5 4.8 4.0 1.3 0.2 13.0 3rd
4th 0.3 2.4 5.0 3.3 0.8 0.0 0.0 11.8 4th
5th 0.2 2.2 5.3 3.2 0.5 0.0 11.4 5th
6th 0.2 2.1 4.9 2.6 0.5 0.0 10.3 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 1.7 3.8 2.4 0.4 0.0 8.7 7th
8th 0.0 0.4 1.9 3.1 1.7 0.3 0.0 7.4 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.5 2.2 1.2 0.2 0.0 5.8 9th
10th 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.0 1.1 0.4 0.1 3.6 10th
Total 0.1 0.3 0.8 1.7 3.0 4.8 6.3 8.0 10.1 10.8 11.4 10.6 9.8 8.2 6.3 4.3 2.3 1.0 0.2 Total



Patriot League 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% 1.0    1.0 0.0
16-2 96.6% 2.2    2.0 0.2
15-3 82.2% 3.5    2.7 0.8 0.0
14-4 58.4% 3.7    2.0 1.5 0.2 0.0
13-5 28.9% 2.4    0.8 1.1 0.4 0.0
12-6 7.9% 0.8    0.1 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0
11-7 0.5% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 13.8% 13.8 8.9 3.9 0.9 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 0.2% 51.7% 51.7% 13.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1
17-1 1.0% 58.4% 58.4% 13.6 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.4
16-2 2.3% 42.0% 42.0% 14.7 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1 1.3
15-3 4.3% 36.7% 36.7% 16.1 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.7 0.4 2.7
14-4 6.3% 27.1% 27.1% 17.2 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.8 4.6
13-5 8.2% 21.0% 21.0% 18.3 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.3 6.5
12-6 9.8% 16.2% 16.2% 18.0 0.0 0.4 1.4 8.2
11-7 10.6% 10.2% 10.2% 18.2 0.0 0.2 1.1 9.5
10-8 11.4% 7.9% 7.9% 18.4 0.1 1.0 10.5
9-9 10.8% 5.5% 5.5% 16.7 0.0 0.6 10.2
8-10 10.1% 3.5% 3.5% 16.3 0.4 9.8
7-11 8.0% 1.9% 1.9% 16.7 0.2 7.9
6-12 6.3% 1.2% 1.2% 16.0 0.1 6.2
5-13 4.8% 0.6% 0.6% 16.0 0.0 4.8
4-14 3.0% 0.7% 0.7% 16.0 0.0 3.0
3-15 1.7% 1.7
2-16 0.8% 0.8
1-17 0.3% 0.3
0-18 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 11.5% 11.5% 0.0% 17.0 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.5 3.2 7.3 88.5 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 0.0%