Preseason Rankings
Bowling Green
Mid-American
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-3.0#212
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace71.0#97
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-1.9#228
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-1.0#200
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 4.8% 6.1% 2.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 14.0 13.5 14.1
.500 or above 54.8% 65.8% 39.2%
.500 or above in Conference 55.2% 62.0% 45.5%
Conference Champion 5.3% 7.0% 2.9%
Last Place in Conference 4.5% 2.9% 6.8%
First Four0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
First Round4.8% 6.2% 2.9%
Second Round0.3% 0.4% 0.2%
Sweet Sixteen0.0% 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: Texas St. (Home) - 58.6% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 20 - 20 - 3
Quad 33 - 63 - 9
Quad 411 - 514 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 197   Texas St. W 72-70 59%    
  Nov 09, 2025 344   Le Moyne W 81-69 86%    
  Nov 15, 2025 145   @ Davidson L 67-74 27%    
  Nov 19, 2025 226   William & Mary W 80-76 62%    
  Nov 24, 2025 286   Bucknell W 73-69 64%    
  Nov 26, 2025 293   VMI W 75-71 65%    
  Dec 01, 2025 57   @ Kansas St. L 63-79 9%    
  Dec 06, 2025 118   Utah Valley L 70-73 41%    
  Dec 16, 2025 351   Chicago St. W 79-66 86%    
  Dec 20, 2025 152   @ Ohio L 73-79 29%    
  Dec 30, 2025 125   Miami (OH) L 73-75 43%    
  Jan 03, 2026 170   @ Massachusetts L 72-77 33%    
  Jan 06, 2026 127   @ Kent St. L 66-74 25%    
  Jan 10, 2026 108   Akron L 76-80 37%    
  Jan 17, 2026 292   Eastern Michigan W 77-70 73%    
  Jan 20, 2026 282   @ Western Michigan W 73-72 53%    
  Jan 24, 2026 196   @ Toledo L 75-79 38%    
  Jan 27, 2026 337   Buffalo W 81-70 82%    
  Jan 31, 2026 299   @ Central Michigan W 72-70 55%    
  Feb 03, 2026 247   Ball St. W 75-70 65%    
  Feb 11, 2026 314   @ Northern Illinois W 75-72 59%    
  Feb 14, 2026 196   Toledo W 78-76 57%    
  Feb 17, 2026 127   Kent St. L 69-71 43%    
  Feb 21, 2026 125   @ Miami (OH) L 70-78 25%    
  Feb 24, 2026 282   Western Michigan W 76-69 72%    
  Feb 28, 2026 170   Massachusetts W 75-74 53%    
  Mar 06, 2026 292   @ Eastern Michigan W 74-73 54%    
Projected Record 14 - 13 9 - 9





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Mid-American 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 0.7 1.4 1.5 1.1 0.4 0.1 5.3 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 1.1 2.5 2.3 0.8 0.1 0.0 7.0 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.2 1.6 3.4 2.5 0.6 0.0 8.4 3rd
4th 0.2 1.6 4.3 2.8 0.6 0.0 9.5 4th
5th 0.1 1.6 4.2 3.2 0.7 0.0 9.8 5th
6th 0.0 0.1 1.2 4.6 3.7 0.7 0.0 10.3 6th
7th 0.1 1.2 4.5 4.0 0.8 0.1 10.7 7th
8th 0.0 0.8 3.5 4.2 1.1 0.1 9.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.6 3.1 3.8 1.1 0.2 8.8 9th
10th 0.0 0.4 2.4 3.4 1.2 0.1 7.6 10th
11th 0.0 0.4 1.7 2.6 1.2 0.1 6.0 11th
12th 0.0 0.4 1.3 1.8 0.7 0.1 4.4 12th
13th 0.1 0.4 0.8 0.7 0.4 0.1 2.4 13th
Total 0.1 0.5 1.2 2.5 4.3 6.5 8.7 10.0 11.2 11.7 10.7 10.0 8.0 6.4 4.3 2.3 1.3 0.4 0.1 Total



Mid-American 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% 0.1    0.1
17-1 98.2% 0.4    0.3 0.0
16-2 90.0% 1.1    0.9 0.3 0.0
15-3 65.2% 1.5    0.8 0.6 0.1
14-4 32.7% 1.4    0.5 0.7 0.3 0.0
13-5 10.5% 0.7    0.1 0.2 0.3 0.0
12-6 1.0% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 5.3% 5.3 2.8 1.8 0.7 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 0.1% 33.2% 33.2% 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.1
17-1 0.4% 31.6% 31.6% 11.7 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3
16-2 1.3% 32.2% 32.2% 12.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.9
15-3 2.3% 25.8% 25.8% 12.5 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.7
14-4 4.3% 18.9% 18.9% 13.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 3.5
13-5 6.4% 13.0% 13.0% 13.6 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 5.5
12-6 8.0% 8.0% 8.0% 14.5 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 7.4
11-7 10.0% 5.5% 5.5% 15.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 9.4
10-8 10.7% 4.0% 4.0% 15.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 10.3
9-9 11.7% 2.1% 2.1% 16.9 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 11.5
8-10 11.2% 0.9% 0.9% 20.0 0.0 0.1 11.1
7-11 10.0% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.0
6-12 8.7% 8.7
5-13 6.5% 6.5
4-14 4.3% 4.3
3-15 2.5% 2.5
2-16 1.2% 1.2
1-17 0.5% 0.5
0-18 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 4.8% 4.8% 0.0% 14.0 0.2 0.8 1.3 1.1 1.0 0.4 95.2 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%