Preseason Rankings
William & Mary
Colonial Athletic
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-3.6#226
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace77.4#13
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-0.1#166
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-3.6#292
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 4.3% 5.7% 3.2%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 14.1 13.6 14.3
.500 or above 33.2% 46.6% 22.2%
.500 or above in Conference 52.5% 61.4% 45.1%
Conference Champion 5.1% 7.3% 3.2%
Last Place in Conference 5.9% 3.4% 7.9%
First Four0.3% 0.3% 0.3%
First Round4.3% 5.7% 3.1%
Second Round0.2% 0.4% 0.1%
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: Norfolk St. (Away) - 45.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 20 - 30 - 5
Quad 33 - 74 - 12
Quad 49 - 513 - 17


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 08, 2025 260   @ Norfolk St. L 75-76 45%    
  Nov 11, 2025 131   @ Richmond L 68-77 21%    
  Nov 15, 2025 8   @ St. John's L 67-92 1%    
  Nov 19, 2025 212   @ Bowling Green L 76-80 38%    
  Nov 24, 2025 160   UTEP L 75-78 38%    
  Nov 25, 2025 166   Abilene Christian L 75-78 40%    
  Nov 30, 2025 195   Old Dominion W 77-75 55%    
  Dec 02, 2025 116   @ Duquesne L 69-79 19%    
  Dec 06, 2025 85   @ George Washington L 72-85 13%    
  Dec 18, 2025 148   Radford L 72-73 45%    
  Dec 29, 2025 136   Towson L 71-73 42%    
  Dec 31, 2025 298   Stony Brook W 78-71 73%    
  Jan 05, 2026 123   @ College of Charleston L 77-86 22%    
  Jan 08, 2026 210   @ Monmouth L 75-79 38%    
  Jan 10, 2026 225   @ Drexel L 69-72 40%    
  Jan 15, 2026 349   N.C. A&T W 85-73 83%    
  Jan 22, 2026 120   UNC Wilmington L 74-77 39%    
  Jan 24, 2026 182   Hofstra W 70-69 53%    
  Jan 29, 2026 224   @ Elon L 73-76 39%    
  Jan 31, 2026 200   Campbell W 76-74 56%    
  Feb 05, 2026 120   @ UNC Wilmington L 71-80 22%    
  Feb 07, 2026 235   @ Hampton L 73-76 42%    
  Feb 12, 2026 218   @ Northeastern L 75-78 39%    
  Feb 14, 2026 224   Elon W 76-73 59%    
  Feb 19, 2026 200   @ Campbell L 73-77 36%    
  Feb 26, 2026 218   Northeastern W 78-75 58%    
  Feb 28, 2026 349   @ N.C. A&T W 82-76 68%    
  Mar 03, 2026 235   Hampton W 76-73 61%    
Projected Record 12 - 16 9 - 9





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Colonial Athletic Finish

0-18 1-17 2-16 3-15 4-14 5-13 6-12 7-11 8-10 9-9 10-8 11-7 12-6 13-5 14-4 15-3 16-2 17-1 18-0 Total
1st 0.0 0.2 0.8 1.4 1.3 0.9 0.4 0.1 5.1 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 1.4 2.5 1.8 0.6 0.1 6.7 2nd
3rd 0.2 2.0 3.3 2.1 0.4 0.0 0.0 8.1 3rd
4th 0.2 1.8 3.9 2.2 0.4 0.0 8.6 4th
5th 0.1 1.7 4.4 2.7 0.4 0.0 9.4 5th
6th 0.1 1.1 4.4 3.1 0.5 0.0 9.3 6th
7th 0.0 0.7 3.8 4.1 1.0 0.0 9.6 7th
8th 0.0 0.4 3.2 3.9 1.4 0.0 9.0 8th
9th 0.0 0.3 2.4 4.5 1.8 0.1 9.1 9th
10th 0.3 2.2 4.0 2.1 0.2 8.9 10th
11th 0.0 0.4 1.7 3.2 2.0 0.3 0.0 7.4 11th
12th 0.0 0.4 1.5 2.0 1.4 0.3 0.0 5.6 12th
13th 0.1 0.5 1.1 1.0 0.5 0.1 3.3 13th
Total 0.1 0.5 1.5 2.8 4.5 7.2 9.1 10.9 10.9 11.9 10.7 9.5 7.5 5.8 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.1 Total



Colonial Athletic Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
18-0 100.0% 0.1    0.1
17-1 100.0% 0.4    0.3 0.1
16-2 89.2% 0.9    0.7 0.2 0.0
15-3 67.0% 1.3    0.9 0.4 0.0
14-4 38.7% 1.4    0.5 0.6 0.3 0.0
13-5 13.6% 0.8    0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0
12-6 2.4% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.2% 0.0    0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 5.1% 5.1 2.7 1.6 0.6 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
18-0 0.1% 53.3% 53.3% 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
17-1 0.4% 41.0% 41.0% 11.9 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
16-2 1.0% 33.1% 33.1% 12.7 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.7
15-3 2.0% 23.1% 23.1% 12.8 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.5
14-4 3.6% 19.2% 19.2% 13.5 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0 2.9
13-5 5.8% 11.4% 11.4% 13.9 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0 5.2
12-6 7.5% 8.9% 8.9% 14.4 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.0 6.9
11-7 9.5% 5.6% 5.6% 15.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 8.9
10-8 10.7% 3.4% 3.4% 15.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 10.3
9-9 11.9% 1.8% 1.8% 16.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 11.7
8-10 10.9% 1.0% 1.0% 16.9 0.0 0.1 10.8
7-11 10.9% 0.5% 0.5% 16.0 0.0 0.1 10.8
6-12 9.1% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 9.0
5-13 7.2% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 7.2
4-14 4.5% 4.5
3-15 2.8% 2.8
2-16 1.5% 1.5
1-17 0.5% 0.5
0-18 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 4.3% 4.3% 0.0% 14.1 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.0 1.3 0.9 0.5 95.7 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 0.0%