Preseason Rankings
Vermont
America East
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-2.7#207
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace59.1#359
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-2.9#254
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+0.2#156
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 29.2% 35.6% 26.0%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 16.1 14.5 15.1
.500 or above 75.7% 88.3% 69.5%
.500 or above in Conference 89.4% 94.6% 86.8%
Conference Champion 40.3% 50.6% 35.3%
Last Place in Conference 1.4% 0.4% 1.8%
First Four7.8% 6.1% 8.6%
First Round28.1% 35.0% 24.7%
Second Round1.0% 1.6% 0.6%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.2% 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: Brown (Away) - 32.8% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 16 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 00 - 0
Quad 20 - 10 - 2
Quad 32 - 42 - 6
Quad 415 - 618 - 12


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 09, 2025 169   @ Brown L 59-64 33%    
  Nov 15, 2025 218   @ Northeastern L 63-65 42%    
  Nov 18, 2025 337   @ Buffalo W 70-65 67%    
  Nov 24, 2025 100   Liberty L 58-66 24%    
  Nov 30, 2025 97   Yale L 63-68 33%    
  Dec 03, 2025 117   @ Oregon St. L 58-67 22%    
  Dec 06, 2025 244   @ Pepperdine L 66-67 47%    
  Dec 14, 2025 258   Merrimack W 61-56 68%    
  Dec 17, 2025 213   Siena W 66-63 61%    
  Dec 20, 2025 208   Iona W 66-63 61%    
  Dec 30, 2025 179   @ Princeton L 61-65 36%    
  Jan 03, 2026 356   @ New Hampshire W 68-60 75%    
  Jan 08, 2026 334   Binghamton W 68-57 82%    
  Jan 15, 2026 285   Maine W 64-57 73%    
  Jan 19, 2026 296   @ Albany W 66-64 56%    
  Jan 22, 2026 301   @ Umass Lowell W 68-66 58%    
  Jan 24, 2026 248   @ Bryant L 69-70 47%    
  Jan 29, 2026 304   Maryland Baltimore Co. W 74-66 76%    
  Jan 31, 2026 357   NJIT W 69-55 88%    
  Feb 05, 2026 285   @ Maine W 61-60 55%    
  Feb 07, 2026 356   New Hampshire W 71-57 88%    
  Feb 12, 2026 334   @ Binghamton W 65-60 65%    
  Feb 14, 2026 248   Bryant W 72-67 66%    
  Feb 19, 2026 304   @ Maryland Baltimore Co. W 71-69 57%    
  Feb 21, 2026 357   @ NJIT W 66-58 76%    
  Feb 26, 2026 301   Umass Lowell W 71-63 75%    
  Mar 03, 2026 296   Albany W 69-61 74%    
Projected Record 16 - 11 11 - 5





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected America East Finish

0-16 1-15 2-14 3-13 4-12 5-11 6-10 7-9 8-8 9-7 10-6 11-5 12-4 13-3 14-2 15-1 16-0 Total
1st 0.4 2.2 6.7 10.5 10.8 6.8 2.9 40.3 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 3.3 7.1 6.3 3.0 0.5 20.6 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.4 3.4 5.9 3.5 0.8 0.0 14.1 3rd
4th 0.0 0.3 2.6 4.4 1.9 0.4 9.6 4th
5th 0.0 0.3 1.8 3.0 1.2 0.1 6.3 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.2 1.8 0.9 0.0 4.1 6th
7th 0.0 0.2 0.8 1.4 0.5 0.0 2.9 7th
8th 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.6 0.2 0.0 1.7 8th
9th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.5 9th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 1.0 1.7 3.0 4.4 6.8 9.5 11.6 13.1 13.8 13.5 11.3 6.8 2.9 Total



America East Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
16-0 100.0% 2.9    2.9
15-1 100.0% 6.8    6.6 0.2
14-2 95.7% 10.8    9.2 1.6 0.0
13-3 77.7% 10.5    7.1 3.2 0.2
12-4 48.5% 6.7    2.9 3.0 0.7 0.0
11-5 17.0% 2.2    0.5 1.0 0.6 0.1 0.0
10-6 3.0% 0.4    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
9-7 0.0%
8-8 0.0%
Total 40.3% 40.3 29.3 9.0 1.7 0.3 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
16-0 2.9% 70.2% 70.2% 12.9 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.9
15-1 6.8% 57.4% 57.4% 13.8 0.1 0.6 1.1 1.3 0.8 0.1 2.9
14-2 11.3% 49.7% 49.7% 14.8 0.0 0.2 1.0 2.0 1.9 0.7 5.7
13-3 13.5% 39.7% 39.7% 16.2 0.0 0.4 1.4 2.3 1.8 8.2
12-4 13.8% 31.3% 31.3% 18.0 0.0 0.1 0.6 1.7 2.7 9.5
11-5 13.1% 25.0% 25.0% 18.3 0.0 0.1 1.0 2.7 9.9
10-6 11.6% 19.1% 19.1% 18.2 0.0 0.4 2.1 9.4
9-7 9.5% 14.5% 14.5% 18.1 0.1 1.5 8.1
8-8 6.8% 8.0% 8.0% 17.0 0.0 0.6 6.3
7-9 4.4% 7.4% 7.4% 16.0 0.3 4.1
6-10 3.0% 4.5% 4.5% 16.0 0.1 2.9
5-11 1.7% 1.6% 1.6% 16.0 0.0 1.7
4-12 1.0% 0.7% 0.7% 16.0 0.0 1.0
3-13 0.3% 0.3
2-14 0.2% 0.2
1-15 0.0% 0.0
0-16 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 29.2% 29.2% 0.0% 16.1 0.0 0.3 1.2 3.4 5.7 8.3 12.7 70.8 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
Win Out 0.0% 100.0% 11.0 14.3 71.4 14.3
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0%