Preseason Rankings
Montana
Big Sky
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-1.6#183
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace67.6#192
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+0.1#160
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-1.7#228
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 15.5% 21.7% 14.1%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 14.5 13.4 14.2
.500 or above 60.4% 81.6% 55.5%
.500 or above in Conference 72.6% 84.7% 69.9%
Conference Champion 20.3% 29.6% 18.2%
Last Place in Conference 4.5% 1.6% 5.2%
First Four1.2% 0.5% 1.4%
First Round15.6% 21.9% 14.2%
Second Round0.9% 1.9% 0.7%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.3% 0.1%
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: Stanford (Away) - 18.6% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 20 - 20 - 4
Quad 33 - 43 - 9
Quad 412 - 515 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 08, 2025 99   @ Stanford L 65-75 19%    
  Nov 11, 2025 86   @ UNLV L 64-75 15%    
  Nov 14, 2025 253   Cal Poly W 84-78 71%    
  Nov 18, 2025 36   @ Texas A&M L 62-80 6%    
  Nov 23, 2025 211   Lamar W 69-65 65%    
  Nov 25, 2025 201   Oakland W 70-66 62%    
  Dec 03, 2025 215   North Dakota St. W 73-69 65%    
  Dec 06, 2025 315   @ North Dakota W 77-73 65%    
  Dec 20, 2025 10   @ Louisville L 63-86 3%    
  Jan 01, 2026 254   Northern Arizona W 75-69 71%    
  Jan 03, 2026 194   Northern Colorado W 76-72 62%    
  Jan 08, 2026 239   @ Idaho L 72-73 49%    
  Jan 10, 2026 259   @ Eastern Washington W 73-72 52%    
  Jan 17, 2026 147   @ Montana St. L 67-72 33%    
  Jan 19, 2026 254   @ Northern Arizona W 72-71 52%    
  Jan 22, 2026 281   Weber St. W 73-65 74%    
  Jan 24, 2026 287   Idaho St. W 73-65 76%    
  Jan 29, 2026 217   @ Portland St. L 70-72 45%    
  Jan 31, 2026 279   @ Sacramento St. W 70-68 56%    
  Feb 05, 2026 259   Eastern Washington W 76-69 71%    
  Feb 07, 2026 239   Idaho W 76-70 68%    
  Feb 14, 2026 147   Montana St. W 70-69 52%    
  Feb 19, 2026 287   @ Idaho St. W 70-68 58%    
  Feb 21, 2026 281   @ Weber St. W 70-68 56%    
  Feb 26, 2026 279   Sacramento St. W 73-65 74%    
  Feb 28, 2026 217   Portland St. W 73-69 64%    
  Mar 02, 2026 194   @ Northern Colorado L 73-75 43%    
Projected Record 14 - 13 11 - 7





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big Sky 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 0.2 1.1 3.1 5.0 5.1 3.7 1.8 0.4 20.3 1st
2nd 0.2 2.0 5.1 5.3 3.0 1.1 0.1 16.8 2nd
3rd 0.3 2.4 5.2 4.3 1.5 0.2 0.0 13.9 3rd
4th 0.0 0.2 2.0 4.9 3.4 0.6 0.0 11.1 4th
5th 0.2 2.2 4.7 2.9 0.4 0.0 10.4 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.7 3.6 2.1 0.2 0.0 8.0 6th
7th 0.0 0.2 1.3 3.0 2.3 0.3 0.0 7.1 7th
8th 0.0 0.2 1.2 2.3 1.6 0.2 0.0 5.6 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 1.1 1.5 1.0 0.2 4.2 9th
10th 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.8 0.7 0.3 0.1 2.6 10th
Total 0.0 0.2 0.5 1.2 2.0 3.3 4.8 6.7 8.5 9.4 10.7 11.2 11.0 9.9 8.2 6.2 3.8 1.8 0.4 Total



Big Sky 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% 0.4    0.4
17-1 100.0% 1.8    1.8 0.0
16-2 97.1% 3.7    3.4 0.4
15-3 82.4% 5.1    4.0 1.1 0.1
14-4 61.0% 5.0    3.0 1.8 0.2 0.0
13-5 30.9% 3.1    1.1 1.5 0.5 0.1
12-6 9.6% 1.1    0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2
11-7 1.6% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 20.3% 20.3 13.7 5.1 1.1 0.3 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 0.4% 49.1% 49.1% 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2
17-1 1.8% 56.0% 56.0% 12.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.8
16-2 3.8% 43.2% 43.2% 12.8 0.1 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.0 2.2
15-3 6.2% 39.9% 39.9% 13.3 0.0 0.4 1.1 0.8 0.2 0.0 3.7
14-4 8.2% 31.3% 31.3% 13.7 0.0 0.2 0.9 1.0 0.4 0.0 5.7
13-5 9.9% 24.9% 24.9% 14.3 0.1 0.6 1.1 0.7 0.1 7.4
12-6 11.0% 17.0% 17.0% 15.5 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.4 9.1
11-7 11.2% 11.7% 11.7% 17.1 0.0 0.3 0.7 0.5 9.9
10-8 10.7% 9.2% 9.2% 17.4 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.5 9.7
9-9 9.4% 5.5% 5.5% 16.6 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 8.9
8-10 8.5% 3.0% 3.0% 18.5 0.0 0.2 8.3
7-11 6.7% 2.0% 2.0% 17.7 0.1 6.5
6-12 4.8% 0.7% 0.7% 19.2 0.0 4.8
5-13 3.3% 0.4% 0.4% 16.0 0.0 3.3
4-14 2.0% 0.7% 0.7% 16.0 0.0 2.0
3-15 1.2% 1.2
2-16 0.5% 0.5
1-17 0.2% 0.2
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 15.5% 15.5% 0.0% 14.5 0.0 0.0 0.4 1.7 3.9 4.3 3.4 2.3 84.5 0.0%