Preseason Rankings
Colorado
Big 12
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+6.5#84
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.6#160
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+2.2#109
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+4.4#65
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% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 0.6% 0.7% 0.1%
Top 6 Seed 2.0% 2.4% 0.4%
NCAA Tourney Bid 12.4% 14.3% 4.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 12.2% 14.1% 4.7%
Average Seed 8.7 8.7 9.1
.500 or above 46.9% 52.7% 24.0%
.500 or above in Conference 18.0% 20.2% 9.6%
Conference Champion 0.2% 0.3% 0.0%
Last Place in Conference 19.4% 17.1% 28.4%
First Four3.6% 4.2% 1.4%
First Round10.3% 11.9% 4.0%
Second Round4.8% 5.6% 1.7%
Sweet Sixteen1.2% 1.5% 0.2%
Elite Eight0.5% 0.6% 0.1%
Final Four0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
Championship Game0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Montana St. (Home) - 79.8% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 61 - 6
Quad 1b1 - 32 - 9
Quad 23 - 45 - 14
Quad 34 - 29 - 15
Quad 46 - 115 - 16


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 147   Montana St. W 73-64 80%    
  Nov 08, 2025 259   Eastern Washington W 78-63 91%    
  Nov 14, 2025 61   Providence W 70-69 50%    
  Nov 17, 2025 289   Alabama St. W 78-61 94%    
  Nov 21, 2025 255   UC Davis W 75-60 90%    
  Nov 27, 2025 77   San Francisco L 70-71 47%    
  Dec 01, 2025 174   California Baptist W 73-62 82%    
  Dec 06, 2025 98   @ Colorado St. L 68-70 44%    
  Dec 13, 2025 168   Texas San Antonio W 79-69 81%    
  Dec 17, 2025 217   Portland St. W 76-63 86%    
  Dec 20, 2025 99   Stanford W 69-68 54%    
  Dec 28, 2025 194   Northern Colorado W 79-67 84%    
  Jan 03, 2026 69   @ Arizona St. L 69-74 34%    
  Jan 07, 2026 89   Utah W 74-70 63%    
  Jan 10, 2026 12   Texas Tech L 66-74 24%    
  Jan 14, 2026 45   @ Cincinnati L 63-71 24%    
  Jan 17, 2026 58   @ West Virginia L 63-69 30%    
  Jan 20, 2026 14   Kansas L 66-74 26%    
  Jan 24, 2026 74   Central Florida W 76-74 56%    
  Jan 29, 2026 20   @ Iowa St. L 63-76 14%    
  Feb 01, 2026 56   TCU L 68-69 50%    
  Feb 04, 2026 24   @ Baylor L 62-74 17%    
  Feb 07, 2026 69   Arizona St. W 72-71 54%    
  Feb 11, 2026 12   @ Texas Tech L 63-77 12%    
  Feb 14, 2026 9   @ BYU L 66-81 11%    
  Feb 21, 2026 73   Oklahoma St. W 76-74 56%    
  Feb 25, 2026 57   Kansas St. L 69-70 50%    
  Feb 28, 2026 1   @ Houston L 52-73 4%    
  Mar 03, 2026 89   @ Utah L 71-73 42%    
  Mar 07, 2026 11   Arizona L 71-79 24%    
Projected Record 15 - 15 6 - 12





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 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.5 2nd
3rd 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.2 1.0 3rd
4th 0.0 0.2 0.6 1.0 0.2 0.0 2.0 4th
5th 0.1 0.9 1.1 0.4 0.0 2.5 5th
6th 0.1 0.6 1.7 0.7 0.1 3.1 6th
7th 0.0 0.4 2.0 1.5 0.2 4.1 7th
8th 0.2 1.8 2.7 0.6 0.0 5.3 8th
9th 0.1 1.4 3.6 1.4 0.1 6.6 9th
10th 0.0 0.9 4.3 2.9 0.3 0.0 8.4 10th
11th 0.0 0.5 4.0 4.0 0.8 0.0 9.2 11th
12th 0.0 0.3 3.0 5.1 1.7 0.1 10.2 12th
13th 0.1 2.2 5.7 2.8 0.2 11.1 13th
14th 0.1 1.8 5.2 3.6 0.5 0.0 11.3 14th
15th 0.3 2.1 5.1 3.9 0.9 0.0 12.5 15th
16th 1.2 3.2 4.4 2.6 0.6 0.0 11.9 16th
Total 1.2 3.5 6.7 9.6 12.2 13.7 13.5 11.8 9.7 7.1 4.9 2.6 1.9 0.8 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 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
17-1 100.0% 0.0    0.0
16-2 83.3% 0.0    0.0 0.0
15-3 64.8% 0.1    0.0 0.1 0.0
14-4 16.3% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0
13-5 2.5% 0.0    0.0 0.0
12-6 0.7% 0.0    0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 0.2% 0.2 0.1 0.1 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 0.0% 0.0
16-2 0.0% 100.0% 33.3% 66.7% 1.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-3 0.1% 100.0% 10.0% 90.0% 3.8 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-4 0.5% 100.0% 1.7% 98.3% 4.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
13-5 0.8% 97.5% 5.0% 92.5% 6.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 97.4%
12-6 1.9% 92.3% 3.0% 89.3% 7.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.1 92.1%
11-7 2.6% 78.2% 0.6% 77.6% 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.6 78.1%
10-8 4.9% 55.2% 0.3% 54.9% 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.7 1.0 0.4 0.0 2.2 55.0%
9-9 7.1% 37.0% 0.2% 36.8% 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.5 1.1 0.7 0.0 4.5 36.8%
8-10 9.7% 13.4% 0.1% 13.3% 10.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.7 0.0 8.4 13.3%
7-11 11.8% 3.8% 0.0% 3.8% 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 11.4 3.8%
6-12 13.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 11.0 0.0 13.5 0.1%
5-13 13.7% 0.1% 0.1% 10.0 0.0 13.7 0.1%
4-14 12.2% 12.2
3-15 9.6% 9.6
2-16 6.7% 6.7
1-17 3.5% 3.5
0-18 1.2% 1.2
Total 100% 12.4% 0.2% 12.2% 8.7 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.8 1.1 1.6 2.2 3.3 2.2 0.1 87.6 12.2%