Preseason Rankings
Cal St. Northridge
Big West
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-1.2#176
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace78.9#8
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-0.7#186
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-0.5#182
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 7.3% 11.3% 6.2%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
Average Seed 13.3 12.8 13.3
.500 or above 59.0% 79.1% 53.0%
.500 or above in Conference 63.7% 77.1% 59.8%
Conference Champion 7.6% 12.7% 6.0%
Last Place in Conference 3.8% 1.4% 4.5%
First Four0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
First Round7.4% 11.3% 6.2%
Second Round0.7% 1.3% 0.5%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
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: Northern Iowa (Away) - 22.9% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 21 - 31 - 4
Quad 34 - 65 - 10
Quad 412 - 417 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 06, 2025 112   @ Northern Iowa L 69-77 23%    
  Nov 09, 2025 315   @ North Dakota W 82-77 67%    
  Nov 11, 2025 215   @ North Dakota St. L 74-75 45%    
  Nov 16, 2025 130   Troy L 73-74 49%    
  Nov 26, 2025 239   Idaho W 79-76 61%    
  Nov 28, 2025 287   Idaho St. W 76-70 70%    
  Dec 04, 2025 234   Cal St. Bakersfield W 78-72 69%    
  Dec 06, 2025 92   @ UC Irvine L 71-81 21%    
  Dec 10, 2025 186   Fresno St. W 83-79 63%    
  Dec 13, 2025 236   @ Delaware W 82-81 50%    
  Dec 22, 2025 279   Sacramento St. W 77-69 77%    
  Dec 27, 2025 99   @ Stanford L 70-79 21%    
  Jan 01, 2026 255   @ UC Davis W 74-73 53%    
  Jan 03, 2026 126   UC Santa Barbara L 74-75 49%    
  Jan 08, 2026 253   Cal Poly W 90-83 71%    
  Jan 10, 2026 336   @ Cal St. Fullerton W 78-71 71%    
  Jan 15, 2026 119   @ UC San Diego L 70-77 29%    
  Jan 17, 2026 264   Long Beach St. W 76-69 73%    
  Jan 25, 2026 141   @ Hawaii L 70-76 32%    
  Jan 29, 2026 255   UC Davis W 77-70 71%    
  Jan 31, 2026 119   UC San Diego L 73-74 47%    
  Feb 05, 2026 253   @ Cal Poly W 87-86 53%    
  Feb 07, 2026 256   UC Riverside W 79-72 72%    
  Feb 14, 2026 141   Hawaii W 74-73 51%    
  Feb 19, 2026 126   @ UC Santa Barbara L 72-78 30%    
  Feb 21, 2026 264   @ Long Beach St. W 73-72 54%    
  Feb 26, 2026 92   UC Irvine L 74-78 37%    
  Feb 28, 2026 256   @ UC Riverside W 76-75 53%    
  Mar 05, 2026 234   @ Cal St. Bakersfield L 74-75 49%    
  Mar 07, 2026 336   Cal St. Fullerton W 81-68 85%    
Projected Record 16 - 14 11 - 9





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 0.0 0.6 1.3 2.1 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.1 7.6 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 1.5 3.2 3.3 2.0 0.4 0.1 10.8 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.6 2.4 4.3 3.6 1.3 0.2 0.0 12.5 3rd
4th 0.1 0.9 3.3 4.9 2.8 0.8 0.1 0.0 12.9 4th
5th 0.1 1.0 4.3 4.7 2.6 0.4 0.0 13.1 5th
6th 0.1 1.3 3.9 4.5 1.9 0.3 12.0 6th
7th 0.2 1.4 3.2 3.8 1.2 0.1 9.9 7th
8th 0.2 1.3 3.1 2.8 0.8 0.1 8.3 8th
9th 0.0 0.3 1.3 2.3 1.8 0.4 0.0 6.3 9th
10th 0.1 0.5 1.0 1.6 1.0 0.2 0.0 4.5 10th
11th 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.0 2.1 11th
Total 0.1 0.1 0.6 1.0 1.9 3.5 4.8 6.6 7.9 9.6 10.9 10.6 10.5 9.1 8.3 6.0 4.3 2.5 1.1 0.4 0.1 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% 0.1    0.1
19-1 100.0% 0.4    0.4
18-2 92.5% 1.0    0.9 0.1
17-3 81.8% 2.0    1.5 0.5 0.0
16-4 49.2% 2.1    1.1 0.9 0.1 0.0
15-5 21.2% 1.3    0.4 0.6 0.2 0.0
14-6 6.7% 0.6    0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0
13-7 0.5% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 7.6% 7.6 4.6 2.3 0.6 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 0.1% 61.2% 53.6% 7.7% 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.5%
19-1 0.4% 52.4% 50.8% 1.6% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 3.2%
18-2 1.1% 39.9% 39.9% 12.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.7
17-3 2.5% 34.4% 34.4% 12.3 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.1 1.6
16-4 4.3% 28.2% 28.2% 12.7 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.0 3.1
15-5 6.0% 20.5% 20.5% 12.9 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.0 4.8
14-6 8.3% 14.7% 14.7% 13.5 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 7.1
13-7 9.1% 10.3% 10.3% 13.8 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.0 8.2
12-8 10.5% 5.3% 5.3% 14.5 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 9.9
11-9 10.6% 3.1% 3.1% 16.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 10.3
10-10 10.9% 1.4% 1.4% 16.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 10.7
9-11 9.6% 0.9% 0.9% 17.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.5
8-12 7.9% 0.4% 0.4% 15.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.9
7-13 6.6% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 6.6
6-14 4.8% 4.8
5-15 3.5% 3.5
4-16 1.9% 1.9
3-17 1.0% 1.0
2-18 0.6% 0.6
1-19 0.1% 0.1
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 7.3% 7.3% 0.0% 13.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.9 2.3 1.7 0.8 0.3 92.7 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% 7.5 50.0 50.0