Preseason Rankings
Southern Illinois
Missouri Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+1.6#138
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace69.3#139
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+0.5#148
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+1.1#131
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 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 8.5% 9.2% 3.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
Average Seed 12.0 11.9 13.2
.500 or above 55.5% 59.5% 28.6%
.500 or above in Conference 57.8% 60.4% 39.4%
Conference Champion 9.5% 10.3% 4.1%
Last Place in Conference 6.4% 5.6% 12.5%
First Four0.2% 0.2% 0.3%
First Round8.4% 9.0% 3.9%
Second Round1.3% 1.4% 0.3%
Sweet Sixteen0.3% 0.3% 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: UMKC (Home) - 87.3% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 20 - 2
Quad 22 - 52 - 7
Quad 36 - 69 - 13
Quad 48 - 216 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 07, 2025 300   UMKC W 72-60 87%    
  Nov 12, 2025 104   @ Nevada L 64-70 29%    
  Nov 17, 2025 215   @ North Dakota St. W 71-69 55%    
  Nov 24, 2025 236   Delaware W 79-73 71%    
  Nov 24, 2025 103   UAB L 73-76 38%    
  Nov 26, 2025 51   @ Memphis L 69-81 14%    
  Nov 29, 2025 162   Arkansas Little Rock W 72-67 68%    
  Dec 03, 2025 109   @ High Point L 70-75 32%    
  Dec 10, 2025 325   Tennessee Martin W 77-63 90%    
  Dec 13, 2025 131   @ Richmond L 66-69 38%    
  Dec 18, 2025 105   Illinois St. W 72-71 50%    
  Dec 21, 2025 107   @ Bradley L 66-72 31%    
  Dec 29, 2025 129   @ Murray St. L 66-70 39%    
  Jan 01, 2026 261   Valparaiso W 77-67 79%    
  Jan 04, 2026 111   @ Belmont L 74-79 33%    
  Jan 07, 2026 153   @ Illinois-Chicago L 72-74 45%    
  Jan 14, 2026 113   Drake W 62-61 54%    
  Jan 17, 2026 111   Belmont W 77-76 52%    
  Jan 21, 2026 261   @ Valparaiso W 74-70 63%    
  Jan 25, 2026 231   @ Evansville W 69-67 58%    
  Jan 28, 2026 112   Northern Iowa W 69-68 53%    
  Jan 31, 2026 153   Illinois-Chicago W 75-71 64%    
  Feb 03, 2026 105   @ Illinois St. L 69-75 32%    
  Feb 06, 2026 129   Murray St. W 69-67 58%    
  Feb 09, 2026 173   @ Indiana St. L 78-79 49%    
  Feb 12, 2026 231   Evansville W 72-64 76%    
  Feb 15, 2026 107   Bradley W 70-69 51%    
  Feb 18, 2026 113   @ Drake L 59-64 34%    
  Feb 21, 2026 112   @ Northern Iowa L 66-71 34%    
  Feb 25, 2026 173   Indiana St. W 81-75 69%    
Projected Record 15 - 15 10 - 10





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Missouri 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 0.2 1.0 2.1 2.4 1.9 1.2 0.5 0.1 9.5 1st
2nd 0.1 0.6 2.1 3.2 2.5 1.0 0.3 0.0 9.7 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.6 3.0 3.8 2.3 0.5 0.0 10.3 3rd
4th 0.0 0.9 3.3 4.2 2.0 0.2 0.0 10.7 4th
5th 0.0 0.9 3.3 4.2 1.9 0.2 10.6 5th
6th 0.1 1.0 3.4 4.2 1.5 0.2 10.4 6th
7th 0.1 0.9 3.4 4.1 1.7 0.2 10.3 7th
8th 0.0 0.2 1.1 3.0 3.6 1.3 0.1 0.0 9.3 8th
9th 0.0 0.3 1.6 2.7 2.6 1.2 0.1 8.6 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.6 2.1 1.7 0.5 0.1 6.6 10th
11th 0.1 0.4 0.6 1.0 1.1 0.6 0.2 3.9 11th
Total 0.1 0.4 0.8 1.6 3.0 4.5 5.8 7.1 9.2 9.8 10.2 10.0 9.8 8.4 6.7 5.1 3.5 2.2 1.2 0.5 0.1 Total



Missouri Valley 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% 0.1    0.1
19-1 100.0% 0.5    0.5 0.0
18-2 98.3% 1.2    1.1 0.1
17-3 88.3% 1.9    1.6 0.3 0.0
16-4 70.0% 2.4    1.5 0.8 0.1
15-5 41.0% 2.1    0.9 0.9 0.2 0.0
14-6 15.1% 1.0    0.2 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0
13-7 2.7% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.1% 0.0    0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 9.5% 9.5 6.1 2.6 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 0.1% 87.5% 68.8% 18.8% 7.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 60.0%
19-1 0.5% 65.3% 53.1% 12.2% 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 26.1%
18-2 1.2% 51.4% 47.9% 3.5% 10.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.6 6.7%
17-3 2.2% 41.0% 38.7% 2.3% 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.0 1.3 3.7%
16-4 3.5% 27.8% 27.2% 0.6% 11.5 0.0 0.5 0.4 0.0 2.5 0.9%
15-5 5.1% 19.6% 19.5% 0.1% 11.8 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.0 4.1 0.2%
14-6 6.7% 19.0% 18.9% 0.1% 12.1 0.2 0.7 0.3 0.0 5.5 0.1%
13-7 8.4% 12.2% 12.2% 12.4 0.1 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 7.4
12-8 9.8% 9.7% 9.7% 13.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 8.9
11-9 10.0% 6.0% 6.0% 13.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 9.4
10-10 10.2% 3.5% 3.5% 14.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 9.8
9-11 9.8% 1.9% 1.9% 15.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 9.7
8-12 9.2% 0.9% 0.9% 16.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.1
7-13 7.1% 0.5% 0.5% 15.4 0.0 0.0 7.1
6-14 5.8% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 5.8
5-15 4.5% 0.6% 0.6% 16.0 0.0 4.5
4-16 3.0% 3.0
3-17 1.6% 1.6
2-18 0.8% 0.8
1-19 0.4% 0.4
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 8.5% 8.3% 0.2% 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.4 2.1 3.2 1.4 0.6 0.4 0.2 91.5 0.2%