Preseason Rankings
UC Riverside
Big West
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-5.1#256
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace67.5#199
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-2.3#237
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-2.8#269
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 1.8% 2.6% 1.0%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 14.2 13.4 14.4
.500 or above 21.7% 30.9% 11.3%
.500 or above in Conference 33.9% 41.1% 25.7%
Conference Champion 2.0% 2.8% 1.0%
Last Place in Conference 13.7% 9.7% 18.1%
First Four0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
First Round1.9% 2.6% 1.1%
Second Round0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
Sweet Sixteen0.0% 0.1% 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: North Dakota (Away) - 53.0% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 20 - 2
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 3
Quad 20 - 30 - 6
Quad 33 - 73 - 14
Quad 49 - 612 - 19


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 06, 2025 315   @ North Dakota W 74-73 53%    
  Nov 11, 2025 81   @ New Mexico L 68-83 9%    
  Nov 15, 2025 315   North Dakota W 77-70 73%    
  Nov 18, 2025 174   @ California Baptist L 65-72 28%    
  Nov 21, 2025 180   @ San Diego L 72-79 27%    
  Nov 24, 2025 284   Grambling St. W 68-63 67%    
  Nov 29, 2025 269   @ Utah Tech L 70-72 42%    
  Dec 04, 2025 92   @ UC Irvine L 64-78 12%    
  Dec 06, 2025 253   @ Cal Poly L 79-82 39%    
  Dec 13, 2025 9   @ BYU L 60-87 1%    
  Dec 20, 2025 149   @ St. Thomas L 68-77 23%    
  Dec 23, 2025 13   @ UCLA L 55-81 1%    
  Jan 01, 2026 141   Hawaii L 67-70 39%    
  Jan 08, 2026 234   @ Cal St. Bakersfield L 68-72 36%    
  Jan 10, 2026 119   UC San Diego L 66-71 34%    
  Jan 15, 2026 264   @ Long Beach St. L 66-69 41%    
  Jan 17, 2026 336   Cal St. Fullerton W 74-65 76%    
  Jan 22, 2026 92   UC Irvine L 67-75 26%    
  Jan 24, 2026 255   @ UC Davis L 67-70 40%    
  Jan 29, 2026 264   Long Beach St. W 69-66 61%    
  Jan 31, 2026 253   Cal Poly W 82-79 58%    
  Feb 05, 2026 336   @ Cal St. Fullerton W 71-68 59%    
  Feb 07, 2026 176   @ Cal St. Northridge L 72-79 28%    
  Feb 12, 2026 126   UC Santa Barbara L 68-72 36%    
  Feb 14, 2026 119   @ UC San Diego L 63-74 20%    
  Feb 19, 2026 234   Cal St. Bakersfield W 71-69 56%    
  Feb 21, 2026 255   UC Davis W 70-67 60%    
  Feb 26, 2026 126   @ UC Santa Barbara L 65-75 20%    
  Feb 28, 2026 176   Cal St. Northridge L 75-76 47%    
  Mar 06, 2026 141   @ Hawaii L 64-73 22%    
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 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.1 2.0 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 0.7 1.3 1.0 0.4 0.1 0.0 3.6 2nd
3rd 0.1 0.3 1.6 1.9 1.4 0.4 0.0 5.7 3rd
4th 0.1 0.7 2.3 2.6 1.3 0.2 0.0 7.2 4th
5th 0.0 0.1 1.0 3.3 3.5 1.3 0.2 0.0 9.4 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.7 4.5 4.2 1.4 0.1 12.1 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 2.0 4.7 4.2 1.1 0.1 0.0 12.4 7th
8th 0.0 0.6 2.7 4.9 3.7 1.0 0.1 0.0 13.1 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 1.0 3.6 4.7 3.1 0.7 0.0 13.2 9th
10th 0.0 0.5 1.8 4.0 3.7 2.0 0.4 0.0 12.6 10th
11th 0.4 1.2 2.1 2.6 1.7 0.7 0.1 8.8 11th
Total 0.4 1.2 2.6 4.5 6.8 8.7 9.8 10.6 10.8 10.7 9.5 7.7 5.8 4.1 3.1 1.8 1.0 0.5 0.2 0.1 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
19-1 100.0% 0.1    0.1
18-2 87.6% 0.1    0.1 0.0
17-3 82.4% 0.4    0.3 0.1 0.0
16-4 57.5% 0.6    0.3 0.2 0.0
15-5 26.2% 0.5    0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0
14-6 7.5% 0.2    0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
13-7 2.1% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 2.0% 2.0 1.0 0.7 0.2 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
19-1 0.1% 62.5% 62.5% 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
18-2 0.2% 37.1% 37.1% 12.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
17-3 0.5% 28.9% 27.5% 1.4% 12.4 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 2.0%
16-4 1.0% 23.0% 23.0% 12.8 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.8
15-5 1.8% 15.3% 15.3% 13.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 1.6
14-6 3.1% 12.0% 12.0% 13.7 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 2.7
13-7 4.1% 5.4% 5.4% 13.8 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.9
12-8 5.8% 3.3% 3.3% 16.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 5.7
11-9 7.7% 1.5% 1.5% 13.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.6
10-10 9.5% 1.2% 1.2% 18.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 9.4
9-11 10.7% 0.5% 0.5% 19.8 0.0 0.1 10.6
8-12 10.8% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.8
7-13 10.6% 0.2% 0.2% 21.3 0.0 10.6
6-14 9.8% 9.8
5-15 8.7% 8.7
4-16 6.8% 6.8
3-17 4.5% 4.5
2-18 2.6% 2.6
1-19 1.2% 1.2
0-20 0.4% 0.4
Total 100% 1.8% 1.8% 0.0% 14.2 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.2 98.2 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%