Preseason Rankings
UTEP
Conference USA
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-0.3#160
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace70.4#112
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-1.7#224
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+1.3#124
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 6.4% 8.3% 4.1%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.7 12.4 13.1
.500 or above 44.1% 56.1% 30.1%
.500 or above in Conference 50.7% 58.4% 41.7%
Conference Champion 6.7% 8.9% 4.2%
Last Place in Conference 9.6% 6.5% 13.3%
First Four0.3% 0.2% 0.3%
First Round6.4% 8.2% 4.1%
Second Round0.7% 1.1% 0.3%
Sweet Sixteen0.2% 0.2% 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: Loyola Marymount (Home) - 54.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 21 - 41 - 6
Quad 36 - 77 - 13
Quad 47 - 313 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 11, 2025 135   Loyola Marymount W 70-69 54%    
  Nov 15, 2025 54   @ Utah St. L 67-80 11%    
  Nov 24, 2025 226   William & Mary W 78-75 62%    
  Nov 25, 2025 103   UAB L 72-77 32%    
  Dec 07, 2025 121   @ Seattle L 64-70 30%    
  Dec 14, 2025 141   @ Hawaii L 66-71 35%    
  Dec 21, 2025 260   Norfolk St. W 73-65 75%    
  Dec 29, 2025 144   @ Louisiana Tech L 64-68 35%    
  Jan 02, 2026 114   @ Missouri St. L 62-69 29%    
  Jan 04, 2026 209   @ Florida International L 70-71 48%    
  Jan 08, 2026 151   Middle Tennessee W 72-70 57%    
  Jan 10, 2026 161   Western Kentucky W 77-74 61%    
  Jan 15, 2026 236   @ Delaware W 76-75 53%    
  Jan 17, 2026 100   @ Liberty L 64-73 24%    
  Jan 22, 2026 209   Florida International W 73-68 68%    
  Jan 24, 2026 114   Missouri St. L 65-66 49%    
  Jan 28, 2026 144   Louisiana Tech W 67-65 56%    
  Jan 31, 2026 236   Delaware W 79-72 71%    
  Feb 04, 2026 199   @ Sam Houston St. L 71-72 47%    
  Feb 07, 2026 139   New Mexico St. W 67-66 54%    
  Feb 11, 2026 154   @ Jacksonville St. L 65-68 39%    
  Feb 14, 2026 100   Liberty L 67-70 41%    
  Feb 21, 2026 139   @ New Mexico St. L 64-69 35%    
  Feb 26, 2026 151   @ Middle Tennessee L 69-73 38%    
  Feb 28, 2026 161   @ Western Kentucky L 74-77 41%    
  Mar 05, 2026 146   Kennesaw St. W 76-74 56%    
  Mar 07, 2026 154   Jacksonville St. W 68-65 58%    
Projected Record 13 - 14 10 - 10





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Conference USA 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 0.8 1.5 1.9 1.3 0.7 0.4 0.1 6.7 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 1.6 2.4 2.0 0.9 0.3 0.0 7.5 2nd
3rd 0.4 2.1 3.1 1.8 0.6 0.1 8.2 3rd
4th 0.0 0.4 2.5 3.6 2.0 0.4 0.0 8.9 4th
5th 0.0 0.4 2.4 4.3 2.1 0.2 9.4 5th
6th 0.2 2.2 4.3 2.4 0.3 0.0 9.4 6th
7th 0.3 2.1 4.2 2.5 0.4 9.5 7th
8th 0.0 0.3 1.9 4.1 2.7 0.4 0.0 9.4 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 1.8 3.5 2.7 0.5 0.0 9.0 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.8 3.0 2.5 0.5 0.0 8.1 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.9 2.0 2.8 1.7 0.4 0.0 8.0 11th
12th 0.1 0.6 1.1 1.6 1.5 0.7 0.2 5.8 12th
Total 0.1 0.6 1.3 2.5 4.0 5.7 7.0 8.5 9.6 10.0 10.0 10.1 8.5 7.1 5.4 4.0 2.9 1.5 0.8 0.4 0.1 Total



Conference USA 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% 0.4    0.4
18-2 97.2% 0.7    0.6 0.1
17-3 81.0% 1.3    1.0 0.2
16-4 64.1% 1.9    1.1 0.6 0.1
15-5 36.5% 1.5    0.6 0.6 0.2 0.0
14-6 14.3% 0.8    0.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0
13-7 2.6% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 6.7% 6.7 4.1 1.9 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% 69.4% 61.2% 8.2% 8.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 21.1%
19-1 0.4% 59.8% 51.8% 8.0% 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 16.5%
18-2 0.8% 44.9% 40.3% 4.6% 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.4 7.8%
17-3 1.5% 29.8% 28.9% 0.9% 11.4 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0 1.1 1.3%
16-4 2.9% 28.7% 28.7% 11.9 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.0 2.1
15-5 4.0% 21.6% 21.6% 12.1 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.0 3.1
14-6 5.4% 17.1% 17.1% 12.6 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.0 4.5
13-7 7.1% 11.6% 11.6% 13.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.0 6.3
12-8 8.5% 8.6% 8.6% 13.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 7.8
11-9 10.1% 4.7% 4.7% 13.8 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 9.6
10-10 10.0% 3.4% 3.4% 14.4 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 9.7
9-11 10.0% 1.3% 1.3% 17.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 9.9
8-12 9.6% 0.9% 0.9% 17.3 0.0 0.1 9.5
7-13 8.5% 0.9% 0.9% 17.4 0.0 0.1 8.5
6-14 7.0% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 7.0
5-15 5.7% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 5.7
4-16 4.0% 4.0
3-17 2.5% 2.5
2-18 1.3% 1.3
1-19 0.6% 0.6
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 6.4% 6.3% 0.1% 12.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.0 2.2 1.6 0.8 0.4 0.2 93.6 0.1%


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 0.0% 100.0% 4.0 50.0 50.0
Lose Out 0.0%