Preseason Rankings
Western Illinois
Ohio Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-11.5#343
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace62.4#329
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-6.0#333
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-5.5#334
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% 3.7% 1.7%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 17.8 15.0 15.6
.500 or above 12.4% 31.1% 10.9%
.500 or above in Conference 25.4% 41.6% 24.1%
Conference Champion 1.9% 5.0% 1.6%
Last Place in Conference 24.9% 12.2% 26.0%
First Four0.9% 0.8% 0.9%
First Round1.6% 3.7% 1.4%
Second Round0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
Sweet Sixteen0.0% 0.0% 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: Radford (Away) - 7.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 20 - 10 - 3
Quad 31 - 51 - 8
Quad 49 - 129 - 20


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 148   @ Radford L 57-72 8%    
  Nov 07, 2025 34   @ Iowa L 58-86 0.4%   
  Nov 11, 2025 234   @ Cal St. Bakersfield L 61-72 17%    
  Nov 14, 2025 174   @ California Baptist L 59-72 11%    
  Nov 20, 2025 274   Coastal Carolina L 64-66 42%    
  Nov 23, 2025 315   North Dakota W 71-70 52%    
  Dec 02, 2025 113   @ Drake L 49-67 6%    
  Dec 13, 2025 315   @ North Dakota L 67-73 32%    
  Dec 18, 2025 326   @ Lindenwood L 65-70 35%    
  Dec 22, 2025 240   SIU Edwardsville L 63-67 36%    
  Jan 01, 2026 325   @ Tennessee Martin L 64-69 34%    
  Jan 03, 2026 228   @ Southeast Missouri St. L 62-73 18%    
  Jan 08, 2026 268   Tennessee St. L 69-72 41%    
  Jan 10, 2026 324   Tennessee Tech W 69-68 54%    
  Jan 13, 2026 321   @ Eastern Illinois L 62-67 34%    
  Jan 17, 2026 162   @ Arkansas Little Rock L 59-73 12%    
  Jan 22, 2026 291   @ Morehead St. L 60-67 27%    
  Jan 24, 2026 311   @ Southern Indiana L 65-71 31%    
  Jan 29, 2026 228   Southeast Missouri St. L 65-70 35%    
  Jan 31, 2026 325   Tennessee Martin W 67-66 54%    
  Feb 05, 2026 324   @ Tennessee Tech L 66-71 36%    
  Feb 07, 2026 268   @ Tennessee St. L 66-75 24%    
  Feb 10, 2026 321   Eastern Illinois W 65-64 53%    
  Feb 12, 2026 162   Arkansas Little Rock L 62-70 25%    
  Feb 19, 2026 311   Southern Indiana L 67-68 49%    
  Feb 21, 2026 291   Morehead St. L 63-64 47%    
  Feb 26, 2026 240   @ SIU Edwardsville L 60-70 21%    
  Feb 28, 2026 326   Lindenwood W 68-67 55%    
Projected Record 9 - 19 7 - 13





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 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 1.9 1st
2nd 0.0 0.4 0.9 1.1 0.5 0.3 0.0 3.3 2nd
3rd 0.1 0.8 1.7 1.4 0.5 0.1 0.0 4.6 3rd
4th 0.1 1.1 2.6 1.7 0.5 0.1 6.0 4th
5th 0.1 1.5 3.1 2.3 0.5 0.0 7.6 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.7 3.8 2.6 0.4 0.1 8.8 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 1.9 4.2 3.1 0.7 0.0 10.3 7th
8th 0.0 0.4 2.2 4.8 3.3 0.7 0.0 11.5 8th
9th 0.0 0.7 3.1 5.1 3.3 0.6 0.0 12.9 9th
10th 0.0 0.4 2.0 4.3 5.1 2.8 0.7 0.0 15.3 10th
11th 0.6 2.5 4.2 4.9 3.6 1.7 0.4 0.0 17.9 11th
Total 0.6 2.5 4.5 6.9 8.7 10.2 10.9 11.0 10.0 9.2 7.6 6.1 4.5 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.0 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% 0.0    0.0
18-2 100.0% 0.1    0.1
17-3 85.4% 0.3    0.3 0.0
16-4 62.8% 0.5    0.3 0.1 0.0
15-5 46.4% 0.5    0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0
14-6 15.3% 0.3    0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
13-7 5.3% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.6% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 1.9% 1.9 1.1 0.5 0.1 0.1



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 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 14.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
18-2 0.1% 59.0% 59.0% 15.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
17-3 0.3% 41.9% 41.9% 16.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2
16-4 0.7% 30.4% 30.4% 15.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.5
15-5 1.0% 17.7% 17.7% 19.9 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.9
14-6 2.0% 14.3% 14.3% 19.7 0.1 0.3 1.7
13-7 3.0% 9.3% 9.3% 18.1 0.1 0.2 2.7
12-8 4.5% 6.5% 6.5% 17.4 0.0 0.3 4.2
11-9 6.1% 3.2% 3.2% 18.7 0.0 0.2 5.9
10-10 7.6% 1.0% 1.0% 18.9 0.1 7.5
9-11 9.2% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 9.2
8-12 10.0% 0.4% 0.4% 16.0 0.0 9.9
7-13 11.0% 11.0
6-14 10.9% 10.9
5-15 10.2% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.2
4-16 8.7% 8.7
3-17 6.9% 6.9
2-18 4.5% 4.5
1-19 2.5% 2.5
0-20 0.6% 0.6
Total 100% 1.8% 1.8% 0.0% 17.8 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.5 1.4 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 0.3%