Preseason Rankings
BYU
Big 12
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+18.5#9
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.4#176
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+12.4#4
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+6.1#35
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 2.5% 3.1% 1.1%
#1 Seed 11.2% 13.9% 4.7%
Top 2 Seed 24.6% 29.4% 13.0%
Top 4 Seed 49.3% 56.3% 32.7%
Top 6 Seed 67.5% 74.5% 50.7%
NCAA Tourney Bid 88.8% 92.6% 79.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 87.3% 91.4% 78.1%
Average Seed 4.5 4.2 5.5
.500 or above 96.6% 98.4% 92.4%
.500 or above in Conference 87.8% 90.7% 80.9%
Conference Champion 15.2% 17.7% 9.4%
Last Place in Conference 0.4% 0.2% 0.8%
First Four2.7% 1.9% 4.5%
First Round87.6% 91.7% 77.9%
Second Round72.7% 78.1% 59.6%
Sweet Sixteen43.8% 49.2% 31.0%
Elite Eight23.3% 26.6% 15.4%
Final Four11.8% 13.7% 7.2%
Championship Game5.8% 6.9% 3.4%
National Champion2.7% 3.2% 1.5%

Next Game: Villanova (Neutral) - 70.5% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 3 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a4 - 64 - 6
Quad 1b4 - 28 - 7
Quad 26 - 114 - 9
Quad 34 - 018 - 9
Quad 46 - 024 - 9


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 39   Villanova W 73-67 71%    
  Nov 08, 2025 346   Holy Cross W 90-57 100.0%   
  Nov 11, 2025 236   Delaware W 92-66 99%    
  Nov 14, 2025 4   Connecticut L 70-74 37%    
  Nov 21, 2025 26   Wisconsin W 77-74 61%    
  Nov 27, 2025 55   Miami (FL) W 81-72 77%    
  Nov 28, 2025 65   Dayton W 77-68 79%    
  Dec 03, 2025 174   California Baptist W 82-62 96%    
  Dec 08, 2025 42   Clemson W 73-67 70%    
  Dec 13, 2025 256   UC Riverside W 87-60 99%    
  Dec 16, 2025 219   Pacific W 86-61 99%    
  Dec 19, 2025 166   Abilene Christian W 85-63 97%    
  Dec 22, 2025 259   Eastern Washington W 88-61 99%    
  Jan 03, 2026 57   @ Kansas St. W 76-70 69%    
  Jan 07, 2026 69   Arizona St. W 82-69 87%    
  Jan 10, 2026 89   @ Utah W 81-71 79%    
  Jan 14, 2026 56   TCU W 78-66 84%    
  Jan 17, 2026 12   @ Texas Tech L 73-75 41%    
  Jan 24, 2026 89   Utah W 84-68 90%    
  Jan 26, 2026 11   Arizona W 80-77 61%    
  Jan 31, 2026 14   @ Kansas L 74-76 43%    
  Feb 04, 2026 73   @ Oklahoma St. W 83-75 74%    
  Feb 07, 2026 1   Houston L 65-68 40%    
  Feb 10, 2026 24   @ Baylor W 73-72 51%    
  Feb 14, 2026 84   Colorado W 81-66 89%    
  Feb 18, 2026 11   @ Arizona L 77-80 41%    
  Feb 21, 2026 20   Iowa St. W 77-72 66%    
  Feb 24, 2026 74   Central Florida W 87-73 87%    
  Feb 28, 2026 58   @ West Virginia W 73-67 69%    
  Mar 03, 2026 45   @ Cincinnati W 73-69 62%    
  Mar 07, 2026 12   Texas Tech W 76-72 62%    
Projected Record 23 - 8 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big 12 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 0.3 1.8 4.1 4.9 3.2 0.9 15.2 1st
2nd 0.0 0.4 3.3 6.1 4.7 1.5 0.1 16.1 2nd
3rd 0.5 3.3 6.3 3.7 0.6 0.0 14.3 3rd
4th 0.3 2.4 5.5 3.4 0.5 0.0 12.1 4th
5th 0.1 1.5 4.7 3.0 0.5 9.8 5th
6th 0.0 0.9 3.7 2.9 0.6 0.0 8.1 6th
7th 0.3 2.3 3.3 0.8 0.0 6.7 7th
8th 0.1 1.1 2.8 1.1 0.1 5.1 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 2.0 1.4 0.1 3.9 9th
10th 0.2 1.2 1.2 0.2 0.0 2.8 10th
11th 0.0 0.6 1.1 0.3 0.0 2.1 11th
12th 0.2 0.7 0.5 1.4 12th
13th 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.0 1.0 13th
14th 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.7 14th
15th 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.4 15th
16th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 16th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.1 1.9 3.3 5.0 7.8 10.0 11.4 12.8 13.7 12.1 9.4 6.5 3.3 0.9 Total



Big 12 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% 0.9    0.9
17-1 97.4% 3.2    2.7 0.5
16-2 76.3% 4.9    3.2 1.5 0.2
15-3 43.7% 4.1    1.6 2.0 0.5 0.1
14-4 14.9% 1.8    0.4 0.8 0.5 0.1 0.0
13-5 2.2% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-6 0.1% 0.0    0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 15.2% 15.2 8.7 4.8 1.3 0.3 0.0 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 0.9% 100.0% 50.7% 49.3% 1.2 0.7 0.1 100.0%
17-1 3.3% 100.0% 39.3% 60.7% 1.3 2.3 0.9 0.1 0.0 100.0%
16-2 6.5% 100.0% 30.5% 69.5% 1.6 3.2 2.5 0.7 0.1 0.0 100.0%
15-3 9.4% 100.0% 24.3% 75.7% 2.1 2.9 3.8 2.1 0.6 0.1 0.0 100.0%
14-4 12.1% 99.9% 17.9% 82.0% 2.9 1.4 3.5 3.9 2.3 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.0 99.9%
13-5 13.7% 100.0% 12.5% 87.5% 3.8 0.5 2.0 3.5 3.7 2.3 1.1 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
12-6 12.8% 99.7% 6.9% 92.9% 4.8 0.1 0.6 1.9 3.2 3.0 2.2 1.2 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 99.7%
11-7 11.4% 97.9% 4.6% 93.3% 6.0 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.4 2.3 2.5 2.1 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.2 97.8%
10-8 10.0% 93.1% 3.0% 90.1% 7.2 0.0 0.2 0.5 1.0 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.2 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.7 92.9%
9-9 7.8% 78.6% 1.5% 77.2% 8.2 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.3 1.2 1.1 0.5 0.0 1.7 78.3%
8-10 5.0% 52.4% 1.6% 50.8% 9.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.0 2.4 51.6%
7-11 3.3% 26.9% 0.4% 26.5% 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.0 2.4 26.6%
6-12 1.9% 5.9% 5.9% 10.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 1.8 5.9%
5-13 1.1% 1.8% 0.6% 1.2% 10.3 0.0 0.0 1.1 1.2%
4-14 0.5% 0.5
3-15 0.2% 0.2
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18
Total 100% 88.8% 11.8% 77.0% 4.5 11.2 13.4 13.0 11.8 9.8 8.4 6.7 5.4 4.1 3.5 1.5 0.1 11.2 87.3%


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 0.2% 100.0% 1.1 93.6 6.4
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.1% 100.0% 1.2 75.1 24.9
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 100.0% 1.0 100.0