Preseason Rankings
Kansas St.
Big 12
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+9.6#57
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace67.6#194
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+4.1#73
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+5.5#46
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 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 0.6% 0.6% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 2.6% 2.7% 0.4%
Top 6 Seed 6.8% 7.1% 1.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 27.6% 28.8% 9.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 27.0% 28.1% 9.5%
Average Seed 8.0 8.0 8.9
.500 or above 62.3% 64.3% 30.2%
.500 or above in Conference 34.7% 35.8% 17.2%
Conference Champion 0.9% 1.0% 0.0%
Last Place in Conference 10.1% 9.5% 20.3%
First Four4.9% 5.1% 2.3%
First Round25.0% 26.1% 8.4%
Second Round14.1% 14.8% 3.9%
Sweet Sixteen4.6% 4.8% 0.8%
Elite Eight1.7% 1.8% 0.2%
Final Four0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
Championship Game0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: UNC Greensboro (Home) - 94.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 71 - 7
Quad 1b2 - 43 - 10
Quad 24 - 37 - 13
Quad 34 - 111 - 14
Quad 46 - 017 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 04, 2025 232   UNC Greensboro W 73-57 94%    
  Nov 08, 2025 319   Bellarmine W 82-60 98%    
  Nov 13, 2025 91   California W 74-67 73%    
  Nov 17, 2025 150   Tulsa W 75-63 87%    
  Nov 20, 2025 32   Mississippi St. L 69-73 36%    
  Nov 25, 2025 33   @ Indiana L 67-74 27%    
  Dec 01, 2025 212   Bowling Green W 79-63 91%    
  Dec 06, 2025 102   Seton Hall W 69-61 74%    
  Dec 08, 2025 365   Mississippi Valley W 84-47 100.0%   
  Dec 13, 2025 25   @ Creighton L 67-76 22%    
  Dec 20, 2025 294   South Dakota W 91-71 96%    
  Dec 28, 2025 347   Louisiana Monroe W 82-57 98%    
  Jan 03, 2026 9   BYU L 70-76 31%    
  Jan 07, 2026 11   @ Arizona L 69-80 17%    
  Jan 10, 2026 69   @ Arizona St. L 70-72 44%    
  Jan 14, 2026 74   Central Florida W 78-73 66%    
  Jan 17, 2026 73   @ Oklahoma St. L 74-75 46%    
  Jan 20, 2026 89   Utah W 75-68 71%    
  Jan 24, 2026 14   Kansas L 68-73 35%    
  Jan 27, 2026 58   @ West Virginia L 64-67 40%    
  Feb 01, 2026 20   Iowa St. L 68-72 38%    
  Feb 07, 2026 56   @ TCU L 66-69 40%    
  Feb 11, 2026 45   Cincinnati W 67-66 52%    
  Feb 14, 2026 1   @ Houston L 54-72 7%    
  Feb 17, 2026 24   Baylor L 67-70 41%    
  Feb 21, 2026 12   @ Texas Tech L 64-75 17%    
  Feb 25, 2026 84   @ Colorado W 70-69 50%    
  Feb 28, 2026 56   TCU W 69-66 60%    
  Mar 03, 2026 58   West Virginia W 67-64 59%    
  Mar 07, 2026 14   @ Kansas L 65-76 18%    
Projected Record 16 - 14 7 - 11





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 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.9 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.0 2.0 2nd
3rd 0.2 0.9 1.3 0.4 0.0 2.9 3rd
4th 0.0 0.1 1.3 1.8 0.7 0.1 3.9 4th
5th 0.1 1.3 2.6 1.2 0.1 5.3 5th
6th 0.0 0.9 3.3 1.7 0.2 0.0 6.1 6th
7th 0.0 0.6 2.9 2.7 0.5 6.7 7th
8th 0.2 2.5 4.0 1.1 0.0 7.9 8th
9th 0.1 1.8 4.4 2.0 0.1 0.0 8.5 9th
10th 0.9 3.8 3.2 0.4 8.3 10th
11th 0.0 0.4 3.4 4.1 1.0 0.0 9.0 11th
12th 0.0 0.2 2.4 4.5 1.6 0.1 8.7 12th
13th 0.1 1.7 4.5 2.3 0.2 8.9 13th
14th 0.1 1.3 3.5 2.9 0.4 0.0 8.2 14th
15th 0.1 1.2 3.0 2.2 0.6 0.0 7.1 15th
16th 0.2 1.4 2.1 1.4 0.4 0.0 5.6 16th
Total 0.2 1.5 3.3 5.8 8.1 10.8 11.6 11.8 12.0 10.3 8.7 6.3 4.2 2.8 1.5 0.7 0.3 0.1 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
18-0 100.0% 0.0    0.0
17-1 100.0% 0.1    0.1 0.0
16-2 82.1% 0.2    0.1 0.1 0.0
15-3 41.2% 0.3    0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
14-4 14.4% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0
13-5 3.3% 0.1    0.0 0.0 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 0.9% 0.9 0.4 0.4 0.1 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% 27.3% 72.7% 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-2 0.3% 100.0% 12.8% 87.2% 2.7 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-3 0.7% 100.0% 10.5% 89.5% 3.5 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-4 1.5% 98.1% 7.7% 90.4% 4.6 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 97.9%
13-5 2.8% 98.7% 5.8% 92.9% 5.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 98.7%
12-6 4.2% 93.4% 3.6% 89.8% 7.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.0 0.3 93.2%
11-7 6.3% 85.6% 2.1% 83.5% 8.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.1 1.3 1.2 0.8 0.2 0.9 85.3%
10-8 8.7% 66.3% 0.9% 65.4% 9.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.5 1.3 1.5 1.6 0.6 2.9 66.0%
9-9 10.3% 43.2% 0.5% 42.7% 9.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.6 1.0 1.5 1.0 0.0 5.9 42.9%
8-10 12.0% 19.1% 0.3% 18.8% 10.1 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.9 0.8 0.0 9.7 18.9%
7-11 11.8% 4.5% 0.1% 4.3% 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 11.3 4.4%
6-12 11.6% 0.9% 0.9% 10.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 11.5 0.9%
5-13 10.8% 0.1% 0.1% 11.9 0.0 0.0 10.8 0.1%
4-14 8.1% 8.1
3-15 5.8% 5.8
2-16 3.3% 3.3
1-17 1.5% 1.5
0-18 0.2% 0.2
Total 100% 27.6% 0.9% 26.8% 8.0 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.2 1.7 2.5 3.3 4.3 4.7 5.4 3.1 0.1 72.4 27.0%