Preseason Rankings
Delaware
Conference USA
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-4.2#236
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace74.7#35
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-0.5#180
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-3.7#297
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 1.9% 2.7% 1.1%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 13.9 13.2 14.4
.500 or above 23.2% 32.9% 13.6%
.500 or above in Conference 22.7% 29.4% 16.0%
Conference Champion 1.8% 2.7% 1.0%
Last Place in Conference 27.9% 21.9% 33.8%
First Four0.2% 0.1% 0.3%
First Round1.9% 2.7% 1.0%
Second Round0.1% 0.1% 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: Bucknell (Away) - 49.9% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 21 - 41 - 6
Quad 34 - 94 - 15
Quad 48 - 512 - 20


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 286   @ Bucknell L 75-76 50%    
  Nov 11, 2025 9   @ BYU L 66-92 1%    
  Nov 18, 2025 295   St. Peter's W 71-65 71%    
  Nov 24, 2025 138   Southern Illinois L 73-79 29%    
  Nov 25, 2025 232   UNC Greensboro L 70-71 48%    
  Dec 01, 2025 208   Iona W 77-75 55%    
  Dec 06, 2025 341   @ Delaware St. W 81-77 64%    
  Dec 10, 2025 85   @ George Washington L 70-84 12%    
  Dec 13, 2025 176   Cal St. Northridge L 81-82 50%    
  Dec 16, 2025 309   Rider W 76-69 74%    
  Dec 29, 2025 114   Missouri St. L 68-73 35%    
  Jan 02, 2026 154   Jacksonville St. L 71-72 46%    
  Jan 04, 2026 146   Kennesaw St. L 79-81 43%    
  Jan 08, 2026 199   @ Sam Houston St. L 74-79 34%    
  Jan 10, 2026 144   @ Louisiana Tech L 67-75 25%    
  Jan 15, 2026 160   UTEP L 75-76 47%    
  Jan 17, 2026 139   New Mexico St. L 70-73 41%    
  Jan 24, 2026 100   @ Liberty L 67-79 15%    
  Jan 28, 2026 139   @ New Mexico St. L 67-76 24%    
  Jan 31, 2026 160   @ UTEP L 72-79 29%    
  Feb 04, 2026 100   Liberty L 70-76 30%    
  Feb 07, 2026 151   Middle Tennessee L 75-77 44%    
  Feb 12, 2026 209   @ Florida International L 74-78 36%    
  Feb 14, 2026 114   @ Missouri St. L 65-76 20%    
  Feb 18, 2026 161   Western Kentucky L 80-81 48%    
  Feb 21, 2026 151   @ Middle Tennessee L 72-80 26%    
  Feb 26, 2026 154   @ Jacksonville St. L 68-75 28%    
  Feb 28, 2026 146   @ Kennesaw St. L 76-84 25%    
  Mar 05, 2026 199   Sam Houston St. W 77-76 53%    
  Mar 07, 2026 144   Louisiana Tech L 70-72 43%    
Projected Record 11 - 19 7 - 13





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Conference USA 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 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 1.8 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.0 2.2 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.4 1.1 1.3 0.5 0.2 0.0 3.5 3rd
4th 0.0 0.4 1.2 1.7 0.7 0.1 0.0 4.1 4th
5th 0.0 0.3 1.8 2.4 0.9 0.1 5.4 5th
6th 0.3 1.7 2.8 1.0 0.1 5.9 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 1.9 3.6 1.6 0.1 0.0 7.4 7th
8th 0.0 0.3 2.0 4.1 2.1 0.2 8.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.6 2.4 4.6 3.0 0.5 0.0 11.2 9th
10th 0.2 1.0 3.4 4.7 3.3 0.6 0.0 13.2 10th
11th 0.0 0.7 2.3 4.6 5.4 2.9 0.7 0.1 16.7 11th
12th 0.9 2.9 4.7 5.1 4.2 1.7 0.3 0.0 19.8 12th
Total 0.9 2.9 5.3 7.5 9.8 11.1 10.7 11.0 9.9 8.2 6.8 5.1 4.1 2.8 1.7 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.0 Total



Conference USA Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
20-0
19-1 100.0% 0.0    0.0
18-2 100.0% 0.1    0.1
17-3 91.2% 0.3    0.2 0.1
16-4 75.0% 0.5    0.3 0.2 0.0
15-5 38.4% 0.4    0.2 0.2 0.0
14-6 21.8% 0.4    0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0
13-7 3.3% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 1.8% 1.8 1.0 0.6 0.2 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
20-0
19-1 0.0% 0.0
18-2 0.1% 42.9% 42.9% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.1
17-3 0.3% 21.8% 21.8% 11.8 0.0 0.1 0.3
16-4 0.7% 20.7% 20.7% 12.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.5
15-5 1.1% 17.0% 17.0% 12.4 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.9
14-6 1.7% 12.1% 12.1% 12.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 1.5
13-7 2.8% 11.7% 11.7% 13.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 2.5
12-8 4.1% 7.4% 7.4% 13.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 3.8
11-9 5.1% 2.8% 2.8% 13.9 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 4.9
10-10 6.8% 1.5% 1.5% 17.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.7
9-11 8.2% 1.4% 1.4% 17.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 8.1
8-12 9.9% 1.1% 1.1% 15.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 9.8
7-13 11.0% 1.0% 1.0% 16.9 0.0 0.1 10.9
6-14 10.7% 0.4% 0.4% 16.0 0.0 10.6
5-15 11.1% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 11.1
4-16 9.8% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 9.8
3-17 7.5% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 7.5
2-18 5.3% 5.3
1-19 2.9% 2.9
0-20 0.9% 0.9
Total 100% 1.9% 1.9% 0.0% 13.9 0.1 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.3 98.1 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 0.1%