Preseason Rankings
Louisville
Atlantic Coast
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+18.1#10
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace71.3#91
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+10.8#10
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+7.3#20
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 2.3% 2.3% 0.0%
#1 Seed 10.5% 10.5% 3.5%
Top 2 Seed 22.9% 22.9% 3.5%
Top 4 Seed 45.9% 46.0% 14.4%
Top 6 Seed 64.9% 65.0% 18.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 88.9% 89.0% 57.2%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 86.4% 86.5% 53.8%
Average Seed 4.7 4.7 7.8
.500 or above 96.8% 96.8% 67.8%
.500 or above in Conference 92.9% 92.9% 74.9%
Conference Champion 22.7% 22.7% 3.5%
Last Place in Conference 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
First Four2.8% 2.8% 10.9%
First Round87.6% 87.7% 53.4%
Second Round71.6% 71.7% 35.7%
Sweet Sixteen41.9% 42.0% 14.2%
Elite Eight22.0% 22.0% 10.6%
Final Four11.0% 11.0% 7.1%
Championship Game5.1% 5.1% 3.5%
National Champion2.3% 2.3% 0.0%

Next Game: South Carolina St. (Home) - 99.8% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 4 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a3 - 53 - 5
Quad 1b4 - 27 - 7
Quad 27 - 214 - 9
Quad 35 - 019 - 9
Quad 45 - 024 - 9


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 312   South Carolina St. W 90-60 99.8%   
  Nov 06, 2025 238   Jackson St. W 88-63 99%    
  Nov 11, 2025 7   Kentucky W 81-79 57%    
  Nov 15, 2025 152   Ohio W 89-68 97%    
  Nov 21, 2025 45   Cincinnati W 74-68 70%    
  Nov 24, 2025 292   Eastern Michigan W 90-62 99%    
  Nov 26, 2025 357   NJIT W 88-53 99.9%   
  Dec 03, 2025 17   @ Arkansas L 75-77 44%    
  Dec 06, 2025 33   Indiana W 77-73 65%    
  Dec 13, 2025 51   Memphis W 83-73 82%    
  Dec 16, 2025 16   @ Tennessee L 68-70 42%    
  Dec 20, 2025 183   Montana W 86-63 97%    
  Dec 30, 2025 91   @ California W 80-71 79%    
  Jan 02, 2026 99   @ Stanford W 77-67 81%    
  Jan 06, 2026 3   Duke L 73-74 45%    
  Jan 10, 2026 96   Boston College W 82-66 90%    
  Jan 13, 2026 44   Virginia W 72-63 77%    
  Jan 17, 2026 80   @ Pittsburgh W 78-70 76%    
  Jan 24, 2026 76   Virginia Tech W 79-65 88%    
  Jan 26, 2026 3   @ Duke L 70-77 27%    
  Jan 31, 2026 46   SMU W 82-73 78%    
  Feb 04, 2026 63   Notre Dame W 77-65 84%    
  Feb 07, 2026 67   @ Wake Forest W 76-70 71%    
  Feb 09, 2026 31   North Carolina St. W 76-69 72%    
  Feb 14, 2026 24   Baylor W 74-71 59%    
  Feb 17, 2026 46   @ SMU W 79-76 61%    
  Feb 21, 2026 79   Georgia Tech W 82-68 88%    
  Feb 23, 2026 23   @ North Carolina L 79-80 50%    
  Feb 28, 2026 42   @ Clemson W 72-69 59%    
  Mar 03, 2026 64   Syracuse W 83-71 84%    
  Mar 07, 2026 55   @ Miami (FL) W 79-74 68%    
Projected Record 23 - 8 13 - 5





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Atlantic Coast 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 0.3 2.0 6.0 7.5 5.2 1.7 22.7 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 3.5 7.3 5.8 1.8 0.1 19.0 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.3 3.0 6.1 4.0 0.8 0.0 14.3 3rd
4th 0.1 1.6 5.2 3.7 0.7 0.0 11.4 4th
5th 0.0 0.7 3.4 3.0 0.7 0.0 7.8 5th
6th 0.2 2.0 3.2 0.9 0.0 6.4 6th
7th 0.0 0.9 2.8 1.2 0.1 5.0 7th
8th 0.2 1.6 1.6 0.2 3.6 8th
9th 0.0 0.6 1.7 0.3 0.0 2.6 9th
10th 0.2 1.1 0.9 0.1 2.2 10th
11th 0.1 0.4 0.9 0.1 0.0 1.5 11th
12th 0.1 0.6 0.3 0.0 1.1 12th
13th 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.9 13th
14th 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.7 14th
15th 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.4 15th
16th 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 16th
17th 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 17th
18th 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 18th
Total 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.7 1.0 1.9 3.3 5.3 7.7 10.0 12.7 14.4 13.9 12.6 9.3 5.3 1.7 Total



Atlantic Coast 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% 1.7    1.7
17-1 98.7% 5.2    4.5 0.7
16-2 80.3% 7.5    4.9 2.4 0.1
15-3 47.5% 6.0    2.4 2.6 0.9 0.1
14-4 14.1% 2.0    0.4 0.8 0.6 0.2 0.0
13-5 2.3% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
12-6 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 22.7% 22.7 14.0 6.6 1.7 0.4 0.1 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 1.7% 100.0% 58.5% 41.5% 1.3 1.2 0.4 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-1 5.3% 100.0% 50.9% 49.1% 1.5 3.1 1.6 0.4 0.1 0.0 100.0%
16-2 9.3% 100.0% 39.0% 61.0% 1.9 3.5 3.7 1.5 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-3 12.6% 100.0% 31.1% 68.9% 2.8 1.9 3.8 3.5 2.1 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-4 13.9% 99.9% 22.4% 77.5% 3.8 0.6 2.1 3.8 3.3 2.4 1.1 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 99.9%
13-5 14.4% 99.2% 13.7% 85.5% 5.1 0.1 0.5 2.2 2.8 3.3 2.6 1.4 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.1 99.1%
12-6 12.7% 97.2% 10.4% 86.9% 6.1 0.0 0.2 0.7 1.4 2.3 2.6 2.1 1.7 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.4 96.9%
11-7 10.0% 90.5% 6.4% 84.0% 7.3 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 1.0 1.5 1.8 1.8 1.3 0.9 0.2 1.0 89.8%
10-8 7.7% 77.2% 3.1% 74.1% 8.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.0 1.3 1.2 1.0 0.6 0.0 1.7 76.5%
9-9 5.3% 61.7% 2.8% 59.0% 8.9 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.5 0.0 2.0 60.6%
8-10 3.3% 30.4% 0.6% 29.8% 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.0 2.3 30.0%
7-11 1.9% 13.4% 0.4% 13.0% 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.6 13.1%
6-12 1.0% 2.1% 2.1% 10.3 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.1%
5-13 0.7% 1.0% 1.0% 11.0 0.0 0.7 1.0%
4-14 0.1% 0.1
3-15 0.1% 0.1
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17
0-18
Total 100% 88.9% 18.7% 70.2% 4.7 10.5 12.4 12.3 10.7 10.1 8.9 7.2 6.6 4.8 3.6 1.8 0.1 11.1 86.4%


Optimistic / Pessimistic Scenarios

ChanceTourney
Bid
Avg
Seed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Win Out 0.3% 100.0% 1.1 90.1 7.4 2.5
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.1% 100.0% 1.0 100.0
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 100.0% 1.2 83.3 16.7