Preseason Rankings
Southeast Missouri St.
Ohio Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-3.7#228
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace71.1#94
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-3.2#269
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-0.5#183
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% 0.1% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 15.6% 23.8% 14.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 15.9 13.8 14.8
.500 or above 59.5% 85.5% 57.2%
.500 or above in Conference 75.4% 88.6% 74.2%
Conference Champion 16.2% 26.8% 15.3%
Last Place in Conference 2.6% 0.9% 2.8%
First Four2.3% 0.5% 2.5%
First Round15.8% 23.9% 15.1%
Second Round0.5% 0.9% 0.5%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
Elite Eight0.0% 0.1% 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: Saint Louis (Away) - 8.2% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 20 - 10 - 4
Quad 32 - 42 - 7
Quad 413 - 615 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 70   @ Saint Louis L 64-79 8%    
  Nov 07, 2025 37   @ Missouri L 65-85 3%    
  Nov 15, 2025 149   St. Thomas L 73-74 45%    
  Nov 18, 2025 34   @ Iowa L 66-86 3%    
  Nov 25, 2025 253   Cal Poly W 81-80 53%    
  Nov 26, 2025 254   @ Northern Arizona L 70-72 44%    
  Nov 29, 2025 188   Lipscomb W 70-69 55%    
  Dec 06, 2025 134   @ Chattanooga L 68-77 23%    
  Dec 18, 2025 324   @ Tennessee Tech W 73-70 60%    
  Dec 20, 2025 268   @ Tennessee St. L 74-75 47%    
  Jan 01, 2026 321   Eastern Illinois W 72-63 77%    
  Jan 03, 2026 343   Western Illinois W 73-62 82%    
  Jan 08, 2026 311   @ Southern Indiana W 72-70 55%    
  Jan 10, 2026 291   @ Morehead St. W 67-66 52%    
  Jan 15, 2026 326   Lindenwood W 76-67 78%    
  Jan 17, 2026 240   SIU Edwardsville W 70-66 62%    
  Jan 20, 2026 325   Tennessee Martin W 74-65 77%    
  Jan 22, 2026 162   Arkansas Little Rock L 69-70 50%    
  Jan 29, 2026 343   @ Western Illinois W 70-65 65%    
  Jan 31, 2026 321   @ Eastern Illinois W 69-66 59%    
  Feb 05, 2026 291   Morehead St. W 70-63 70%    
  Feb 07, 2026 311   Southern Indiana W 75-67 74%    
  Feb 12, 2026 240   @ SIU Edwardsville L 67-69 42%    
  Feb 14, 2026 326   @ Lindenwood W 73-70 61%    
  Feb 17, 2026 325   @ Tennessee Martin W 71-68 60%    
  Feb 21, 2026 162   @ Arkansas Little Rock L 67-73 31%    
  Feb 28, 2026 324   Tennessee Tech W 76-67 77%    
Projected Record 14 - 13 12 - 7





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Ohio Valley 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 0.5 1.5 3.7 4.4 3.3 2.2 0.6 16.2 1st
2nd 0.1 1.2 3.7 5.4 4.8 2.4 0.6 0.0 18.1 2nd
3rd 0.1 1.5 4.7 5.2 2.8 0.7 0.1 15.1 3rd
4th 0.1 1.4 4.6 4.4 1.7 0.2 0.0 12.5 4th
5th 0.1 1.2 3.7 3.7 1.2 0.1 0.0 10.0 5th
6th 0.1 1.0 3.5 3.2 0.8 0.1 8.6 6th
7th 0.1 0.7 2.5 2.5 0.6 0.1 6.5 7th
8th 0.0 0.8 1.9 1.7 0.5 0.0 5.0 8th
9th 0.0 0.6 1.2 1.5 0.4 0.0 3.8 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.9 0.8 0.2 0.0 2.5 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 1.5 11th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.9 1.9 2.9 4.5 5.8 7.8 9.0 10.7 11.7 11.3 10.0 9.1 6.9 3.9 2.2 0.6 Total



Ohio Valley 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% 0.6    0.6
18-2 97.8% 2.2    2.0 0.1
17-3 85.8% 3.3    2.6 0.7 0.0
16-4 63.8% 4.4    3.0 1.2 0.1 0.0
15-5 40.1% 3.7    1.8 1.5 0.4 0.0
14-6 14.8% 1.5    0.4 0.6 0.3 0.1
13-7 4.7% 0.5    0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1
12-8 0.4% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 16.2% 16.2 10.6 4.4 1.0 0.2



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 0.6% 66.6% 66.6% 12.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2
18-2 2.2% 58.2% 58.2% 13.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.9
17-3 3.9% 48.6% 48.6% 13.7 0.2 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.0 2.0
16-4 6.9% 38.6% 38.6% 14.6 0.1 0.5 1.1 0.9 0.2 4.2
15-5 9.1% 32.1% 32.1% 16.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.9 1.3 0.7 6.2
14-6 10.0% 23.4% 23.4% 17.1 0.0 0.4 1.2 1.0 7.7
13-7 11.3% 16.4% 16.4% 18.4 0.0 0.2 0.9 1.1 9.4
12-8 11.7% 9.6% 9.6% 18.5 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.9 10.5
11-9 10.7% 5.5% 5.5% 17.8 0.0 0.2 0.5 10.1
10-10 9.0% 3.1% 3.1% 18.7 0.0 0.3 8.8
9-11 7.8% 1.5% 1.5% 15.9 0.0 0.1 7.7
8-12 5.8% 1.3% 1.3% 16.0 0.1 5.7
7-13 4.5% 0.6% 0.6% 16.0 0.0 4.5
6-14 2.9% 2.9
5-15 1.9% 1.9
4-16 0.9% 0.9
3-17 0.4% 0.4
2-18 0.2% 0.2
1-19 0.1% 0.1
0-20 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 15.6% 15.6% 0.0% 15.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.7 2.1 3.7 5.3 4.9 84.4 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 0.0%