Preseason Rankings
Long Beach St.
Big West
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-5.5#264
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace61.9#333
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-2.8#251
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-2.6#263
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 1.7% 6.4% 1.6%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 14.2 12.9 13.8
.500 or above 18.8% 51.2% 18.1%
.500 or above in Conference 30.6% 58.4% 30.0%
Conference Champion 1.6% 5.3% 1.6%
Last Place in Conference 14.6% 4.9% 14.8%
First Four0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
First Round1.8% 6.8% 1.7%
Second Round0.0% 0.4% 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: San Diego St. (Away) - 2.0% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 20 - 30 - 6
Quad 33 - 83 - 14
Quad 48 - 611 - 20


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 04, 2025 35   @ San Diego St. L 53-75 2%    
  Nov 08, 2025 186   @ Fresno St. L 68-75 27%    
  Nov 12, 2025 219   @ Pacific L 65-70 32%    
  Nov 16, 2025 105   Illinois St. L 64-71 26%    
  Nov 21, 2025 147   Montana St. L 64-67 39%    
  Nov 26, 2025 265   @ Portland L 68-71 40%    
  Nov 30, 2025 180   San Diego L 72-73 46%    
  Dec 04, 2025 126   @ UC Santa Barbara L 61-72 18%    
  Dec 06, 2025 119   UC San Diego L 63-68 33%    
  Dec 09, 2025 159   @ San Jose St. L 62-70 24%    
  Dec 18, 2025 244   Pepperdine W 70-68 57%    
  Dec 21, 2025 20   @ Iowa St. L 55-80 2%    
  Jan 03, 2026 253   Cal Poly W 77-75 58%    
  Jan 08, 2026 92   @ UC Irvine L 60-74 11%    
  Jan 10, 2026 234   Cal St. Bakersfield W 67-66 55%    
  Jan 15, 2026 256   UC Riverside W 69-66 59%    
  Jan 17, 2026 176   @ Cal St. Northridge L 69-76 27%    
  Jan 22, 2026 336   @ Cal St. Fullerton W 67-65 57%    
  Jan 24, 2026 126   UC Santa Barbara L 64-69 35%    
  Jan 29, 2026 256   @ UC Riverside L 66-69 39%    
  Jan 31, 2026 141   Hawaii L 63-67 38%    
  Feb 05, 2026 119   @ UC San Diego L 60-71 18%    
  Feb 12, 2026 336   Cal St. Fullerton W 70-62 75%    
  Feb 14, 2026 255   @ UC Davis L 63-66 39%    
  Feb 19, 2026 92   UC Irvine L 63-71 25%    
  Feb 21, 2026 176   Cal St. Northridge L 72-73 46%    
  Feb 26, 2026 253   @ Cal Poly L 74-78 38%    
  Feb 28, 2026 234   @ Cal St. Bakersfield L 64-69 35%    
  Mar 05, 2026 255   UC Davis W 66-63 58%    
  Mar 08, 2026 141   @ Hawaii L 60-70 21%    
Projected Record 11 - 19 8 - 12





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big West 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 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 1.6 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 0.6 1.0 0.9 0.3 0.1 3.0 2nd
3rd 0.1 0.3 1.4 1.9 1.1 0.3 0.0 5.2 3rd
4th 0.1 0.7 2.3 2.4 1.1 0.2 0.0 6.8 4th
5th 0.2 0.9 3.3 3.3 1.2 0.2 9.0 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.5 4.0 3.4 1.1 0.1 0.0 10.4 6th
7th 0.4 2.1 4.9 4.0 1.2 0.1 12.6 7th
8th 0.0 0.7 2.9 5.0 3.5 1.1 0.1 13.4 8th
9th 0.1 1.4 3.9 5.3 3.3 0.8 0.1 14.8 9th
10th 0.0 0.5 2.0 4.4 4.5 2.0 0.5 0.0 13.9 10th
11th 0.3 1.2 2.3 2.7 2.0 0.7 0.1 0.0 9.3 11th
Total 0.3 1.2 2.8 4.8 7.9 9.8 10.7 11.0 10.9 10.1 8.7 7.2 5.3 3.9 2.6 1.6 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 Total



Big West Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
20-0 100.0% 0.0    0.0
19-1 100.0% 0.0    0.0
18-2 100.0% 0.2    0.1 0.0
17-3 83.7% 0.3    0.2 0.1 0.0
16-4 61.9% 0.5    0.3 0.2 0.0
15-5 23.3% 0.4    0.1 0.2 0.0
14-6 8.0% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
13-7 0.9% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 1.6% 1.6 0.9 0.6 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
20-0 0.0% 0.0
19-1 0.0% 16.5% 16.5% 11.0 0.0 0.0
18-2 0.2% 27.2% 27.2% 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
17-3 0.4% 27.1% 27.1% 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
16-4 0.8% 26.5% 26.5% 12.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.6
15-5 1.6% 19.7% 19.7% 13.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 1.3
14-6 2.6% 11.6% 11.6% 13.4 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 2.3
13-7 3.9% 6.5% 6.5% 13.7 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.6
12-8 5.3% 3.3% 3.3% 14.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 5.1
11-9 7.2% 2.3% 2.3% 17.7 0.0 0.1 0.0 7.0
10-10 8.7% 1.1% 1.1% 17.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 8.6
9-11 10.1% 0.4% 0.4% 18.7 0.0 0.0 10.0
8-12 10.9% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.9
7-13 11.0% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 11.0
6-14 10.7% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.7
5-15 9.8% 9.8
4-16 7.9% 7.9
3-17 4.8% 4.8
2-18 2.8% 2.8
1-19 1.2% 1.2
0-20 0.3% 0.3
Total 100% 1.7% 1.7% 0.0% 14.2 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.2 98.3 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%