Preseason Rankings
California
Atlantic Coast
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+5.7#91
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.5#167
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+3.7#78
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+2.0#115
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 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 1.1% 1.2% 0.1%
NCAA Tourney Bid 8.7% 9.5% 2.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 8.2% 9.0% 2.6%
Average Seed 9.0 9.0 9.3
.500 or above 56.3% 59.8% 29.6%
.500 or above in Conference 27.3% 29.1% 14.2%
Conference Champion 0.8% 0.8% 0.2%
Last Place in Conference 16.6% 15.3% 26.2%
First Four2.6% 2.9% 0.5%
First Round7.3% 7.9% 2.5%
Second Round3.4% 3.6% 1.4%
Sweet Sixteen0.9% 1.0% 0.3%
Elite Eight0.3% 0.4% 0.2%
Final Four0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Championship Game0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Cal St. Bakersfield (Home) - 88.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 30 - 3
Quad 1b1 - 42 - 8
Quad 23 - 55 - 13
Quad 33 - 28 - 14
Quad 48 - 116 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 234   Cal St. Bakersfield W 77-64 88%    
  Nov 06, 2025 206   Wright St. W 79-68 85%    
  Nov 10, 2025 336   Cal St. Fullerton W 80-61 96%    
  Nov 13, 2025 57   @ Kansas St. L 67-74 27%    
  Nov 18, 2025 263   Presbyterian W 76-62 89%    
  Nov 21, 2025 279   Sacramento St. W 77-62 91%    
  Nov 25, 2025 13   UCLA L 63-75 15%    
  Dec 02, 2025 89   Utah W 75-72 60%    
  Dec 06, 2025 219   Pacific W 78-66 86%    
  Dec 13, 2025 257   Northwestern St. W 74-60 88%    
  Dec 19, 2025 358   Morgan St. W 87-64 98%    
  Dec 21, 2025 267   Columbia W 85-71 89%    
  Dec 30, 2025 10   Louisville L 71-80 21%    
  Jan 02, 2026 63   Notre Dame L 69-70 48%    
  Jan 07, 2026 44   @ Virginia L 61-70 21%    
  Jan 10, 2026 76   @ Virginia Tech L 68-73 35%    
  Jan 14, 2026 3   Duke L 64-78 13%    
  Jan 17, 2026 23   North Carolina L 73-80 30%    
  Jan 24, 2026 99   @ Stanford L 69-72 43%    
  Jan 28, 2026 75   @ Florida St. L 72-77 35%    
  Jan 31, 2026 55   @ Miami (FL) L 71-78 28%    
  Feb 04, 2026 79   Georgia Tech W 74-72 56%    
  Feb 07, 2026 42   Clemson L 66-70 38%    
  Feb 10, 2026 64   @ Syracuse L 72-78 30%    
  Feb 14, 2026 96   @ Boston College L 70-73 41%    
  Feb 21, 2026 99   Stanford W 72-69 61%    
  Feb 25, 2026 46   SMU L 73-76 39%    
  Feb 28, 2026 80   Pittsburgh W 73-71 57%    
  Mar 04, 2026 79   @ Georgia Tech L 71-75 36%    
  Mar 07, 2026 67   @ Wake Forest L 68-74 31%    
Projected Record 16 - 14 7 - 11





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Atlantic Coast 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 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.8 1st
2nd 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.1 1.4 2nd
3rd 0.1 0.7 0.8 0.3 0.0 1.9 3rd
4th 0.0 0.6 1.3 0.5 0.1 2.6 4th
5th 0.0 0.6 1.5 1.0 0.1 3.2 5th
6th 0.3 1.5 1.5 0.3 0.0 3.6 6th
7th 0.0 1.2 2.5 0.7 0.0 4.5 7th
8th 0.5 2.7 1.5 0.1 4.9 8th
9th 0.1 1.9 3.0 0.4 5.4 9th
10th 0.0 0.9 3.6 1.3 0.0 5.9 10th
11th 0.4 3.0 2.8 0.3 0.0 6.4 11th
12th 0.1 1.7 4.1 1.1 0.0 7.0 12th
13th 0.0 0.8 3.8 2.5 0.1 7.3 13th
14th 0.0 0.3 3.1 4.1 0.9 8.3 14th
15th 0.1 2.1 4.5 1.6 0.1 8.5 15th
16th 0.2 1.7 4.2 2.7 0.3 9.1 16th
17th 0.2 1.5 3.8 3.1 0.6 0.0 9.3 17th
18th 0.9 2.5 3.6 2.3 0.7 0.0 9.9 18th
Total 0.9 2.7 5.3 7.9 10.4 11.9 12.0 11.7 10.1 8.8 6.6 4.5 3.5 1.9 1.1 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 Total



Atlantic Coast 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% 0.0    0.0
17-1 100.0% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0
16-2 75.0% 0.2    0.1 0.1
15-3 50.1% 0.3    0.1 0.1 0.1
14-4 16.1% 0.2    0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
13-5 3.7% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0
12-6 0.2% 0.0    0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 0.8% 0.8 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.0 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 0.0% 0.0
17-1 0.1% 100.0% 12.3% 87.7% 4.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-2 0.3% 100.0% 11.1% 88.9% 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-3 0.5% 98.7% 10.8% 87.9% 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 98.5%
14-4 1.1% 88.1% 8.8% 79.3% 7.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 86.9%
13-5 1.9% 73.4% 5.2% 68.2% 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.5 71.9%
12-6 3.5% 55.9% 3.0% 52.8% 9.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.3 0.0 1.5 54.5%
11-7 4.5% 34.8% 1.1% 33.7% 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.0 3.0 34.0%
10-8 6.6% 15.8% 0.6% 15.1% 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.0 5.6 15.2%
9-9 8.8% 8.7% 0.2% 8.5% 10.4 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.0 8.1 8.5%
8-10 10.1% 1.5% 0.1% 1.5% 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 9.9 1.5%
7-11 11.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 11.3 0.0 0.0 11.6 0.2%
6-12 12.0% 12.0
5-13 11.9% 0.1% 0.1% 12.0 0.0 11.9
4-14 10.4% 10.4
3-15 7.9% 7.9
2-16 5.3% 5.3
1-17 2.7% 2.7
0-18 0.9% 0.9
Total 100% 8.7% 0.5% 8.2% 9.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.6 1.0 1.5 2.7 1.7 0.1 91.3 8.2%