Preseason Rankings
Central Arkansas
Atlantic Sun
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-13.6#354
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace65.9#240
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-6.3#339
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-7.3#357
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 0.5% 4.8% 0.5%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 17.2 14.0 15.5
.500 or above 2.6% 9.4% 2.6%
.500 or above in Conference 13.3% 18.4% 13.2%
Conference Champion 0.4% 0.0% 0.4%
Last Place in Conference 31.4% 9.0% 31.5%
First Four0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
First Round0.5% 4.8% 0.5%
Second Round0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
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: North Carolina (Away) - 0.2% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 20 - 2
Quad 1b0 - 20 - 4
Quad 20 - 20 - 6
Quad 31 - 61 - 12
Quad 46 - 117 - 23


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 23   @ North Carolina L 59-91 0.2%   
  Nov 11, 2025 17   @ Arkansas L 55-89 0.1%   
  Nov 16, 2025 171   Samford L 70-80 19%    
  Nov 20, 2025 88   @ North Texas L 50-72 2%    
  Nov 23, 2025 259   Eastern Washington L 68-73 32%    
  Nov 25, 2025 321   Eastern Illinois L 66-67 47%    
  Nov 29, 2025 156   @ East Tennessee St. L 59-76 7%    
  Dec 03, 2025 162   Arkansas Little Rock L 64-74 19%    
  Dec 07, 2025 331   @ East Texas A&M L 65-71 29%    
  Dec 13, 2025 41   @ Vanderbilt L 59-88 1%    
  Dec 21, 2025 46   @ SMU L 59-87 1%    
  Jan 01, 2026 175   Florida Gulf Coast L 63-72 21%    
  Jan 03, 2026 348   Stetson W 73-71 55%    
  Jan 08, 2026 319   @ Bellarmine L 68-75 27%    
  Jan 10, 2026 181   @ Eastern Kentucky L 64-79 10%    
  Jan 15, 2026 245   Jacksonville L 65-71 30%    
  Jan 17, 2026 330   North Florida L 77-78 48%    
  Jan 22, 2026 355   @ West Georgia L 70-73 40%    
  Jan 24, 2026 191   @ North Alabama L 62-77 11%    
  Jan 28, 2026 242   @ Queens L 67-79 16%    
  Jan 31, 2026 181   Eastern Kentucky L 67-76 23%    
  Feb 04, 2026 191   North Alabama L 65-74 24%    
  Feb 07, 2026 188   @ Lipscomb L 61-76 12%    
  Feb 12, 2026 319   Bellarmine L 71-72 45%    
  Feb 14, 2026 355   West Georgia W 73-70 60%    
  Feb 19, 2026 348   @ Stetson L 70-74 36%    
  Feb 21, 2026 175   @ Florida Gulf Coast L 60-75 10%    
  Feb 25, 2026 272   @ Austin Peay L 63-74 19%    
  Feb 28, 2026 242   Queens L 70-76 31%    
Projected Record 7 - 22 5 - 13





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Atlantic Sun 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 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.4 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.7 2nd
3rd 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.0 1.3 3rd
4th 0.1 0.8 1.0 0.3 0.0 2.1 4th
5th 0.0 0.2 1.0 1.6 0.5 0.0 3.2 5th
6th 0.2 1.5 2.4 1.0 0.1 5.2 6th
7th 0.4 1.9 3.5 1.6 0.2 7.6 7th
8th 0.0 0.5 2.5 4.0 2.2 0.3 9.4 8th
9th 0.0 0.6 3.4 5.5 2.6 0.4 0.0 12.5 9th
10th 0.1 1.4 4.8 6.2 3.2 0.5 0.0 16.2 10th
11th 0.3 3.1 6.4 6.6 2.9 0.5 0.0 19.8 11th
12th 2.1 5.5 7.0 4.8 1.7 0.2 0.0 21.4 12th
Total 2.1 5.9 10.2 12.6 13.8 13.1 12.1 9.2 7.8 5.4 3.6 2.0 1.2 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 Total



Atlantic Sun Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
18-0
17-1
16-2 80.0% 0.0    0.0 0.0
15-3 76.9% 0.1    0.0 0.0
14-4 51.6% 0.2    0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
13-5 19.7% 0.1    0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-6 2.4% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.3% 0.0    0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 0.4% 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.0 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
17-1
16-2 0.0% 40.0% 40.0% 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
15-3 0.1% 30.8% 30.8% 14.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
14-4 0.4% 15.0% 15.0% 17.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
13-5 0.5% 9.9% 9.9% 19.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5
12-6 1.2% 4.2% 4.2% 17.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1
11-7 2.0% 3.8% 3.8% 18.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.9
10-8 3.6% 2.7% 2.7% 18.1 0.0 0.1 3.5
9-9 5.4% 0.8% 0.8% 16.0 0.0 5.4
8-10 7.8% 0.5% 0.5% 16.0 0.0 7.7
7-11 9.2% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 9.2
6-12 12.1% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 12.0
5-13 13.1% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 13.1
4-14 13.8% 13.8
3-15 12.6% 12.6
2-16 10.2% 10.2
1-17 5.9% 5.9
0-18 2.1% 2.1
Total 100% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 17.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 99.5 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 1.0%