Preseason Rankings
Central Florida
Big 12
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+7.7#74
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace77.6#12
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+4.5#62
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+3.2#86
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 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
Top 2 Seed 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
Top 4 Seed 1.2% 1.3% 0.3%
Top 6 Seed 3.7% 4.1% 0.7%
NCAA Tourney Bid 18.1% 19.7% 6.7%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 17.7% 19.3% 6.6%
Average Seed 8.3 8.3 8.9
.500 or above 52.3% 56.5% 23.7%
.500 or above in Conference 25.2% 27.1% 12.1%
Conference Champion 0.5% 0.5% 0.1%
Last Place in Conference 16.1% 14.5% 26.8%
First Four4.3% 4.7% 1.7%
First Round15.6% 17.0% 5.7%
Second Round8.1% 8.8% 3.1%
Sweet Sixteen2.2% 2.5% 0.7%
Elite Eight0.7% 0.8% 0.1%
Final Four0.3% 0.3% 0.1%
Championship Game0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Hofstra (Home) - 87.4% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 51 - 5
Quad 1b2 - 42 - 9
Quad 24 - 46 - 13
Quad 33 - 19 - 15
Quad 46 - 015 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 182   Hofstra W 75-63 87%    
  Nov 08, 2025 41   Vanderbilt L 79-81 43%    
  Nov 11, 2025 338   Florida A&M W 87-65 97%    
  Nov 14, 2025 36   @ Texas A&M L 71-80 22%    
  Nov 17, 2025 201   Oakland W 79-66 88%    
  Nov 20, 2025 80   Pittsburgh W 76-75 53%    
  Nov 25, 2025 221   Quinnipiac W 88-74 89%    
  Nov 29, 2025 293   VMI W 86-68 94%    
  Dec 07, 2025 136   Towson W 76-67 79%    
  Dec 17, 2025 246   Mercer W 87-72 91%    
  Dec 20, 2025 175   Florida Gulf Coast W 79-67 85%    
  Jan 03, 2026 14   Kansas L 73-80 28%    
  Jan 06, 2026 73   @ Oklahoma St. L 80-83 40%    
  Jan 11, 2026 45   Cincinnati L 72-73 46%    
  Jan 14, 2026 57   @ Kansas St. L 73-78 34%    
  Jan 17, 2026 11   Arizona L 78-85 27%    
  Jan 20, 2026 20   @ Iowa St. L 70-82 16%    
  Jan 24, 2026 84   @ Colorado L 74-76 44%    
  Jan 27, 2026 69   Arizona St. W 79-77 58%    
  Jan 31, 2026 12   Texas Tech L 72-79 27%    
  Feb 04, 2026 1   @ Houston L 58-78 6%    
  Feb 08, 2026 45   @ Cincinnati L 69-76 27%    
  Feb 14, 2026 58   West Virginia W 72-71 53%    
  Feb 17, 2026 56   TCU W 74-73 54%    
  Feb 21, 2026 89   @ Utah L 77-78 46%    
  Feb 24, 2026 9   @ BYU L 73-87 13%    
  Feb 28, 2026 24   Baylor L 72-76 35%    
  Mar 03, 2026 73   Oklahoma St. W 83-80 59%    
  Mar 06, 2026 58   @ West Virginia L 69-74 35%    
Projected Record 15 - 14 6 - 12





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big 12 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 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.5 1st
2nd 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.0 1.1 2nd
3rd 0.2 0.7 0.9 0.2 0.0 2.0 3rd
4th 0.0 0.1 1.0 1.2 0.5 0.0 2.7 4th
5th 0.0 0.2 0.8 1.7 0.8 0.1 0.0 3.6 5th
6th 0.0 0.8 2.2 1.3 0.1 4.6 6th
7th 0.0 0.4 2.5 2.0 0.3 0.0 5.4 7th
8th 0.2 2.0 3.1 0.7 0.0 6.0 8th
9th 0.1 1.6 3.9 1.6 0.0 7.2 9th
10th 0.0 0.9 4.0 2.8 0.3 8.1 10th
11th 0.0 0.4 3.6 4.3 0.8 0.0 9.2 11th
12th 0.0 0.2 2.5 4.7 1.6 0.1 9.2 12th
13th 0.1 1.9 5.4 2.7 0.2 10.4 13th
14th 0.1 1.7 4.5 3.3 0.5 0.0 10.1 14th
15th 0.3 1.8 4.5 3.1 0.7 0.0 10.3 15th
16th 1.0 2.7 3.2 2.2 0.5 0.0 9.7 16th
Total 1.0 2.9 5.2 8.5 10.3 12.3 12.5 11.9 10.1 8.6 5.9 4.6 2.9 1.9 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.0 Total



Big 12 Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
18-0
17-1 75.0% 0.0    0.0 0.0
16-2 72.4% 0.1    0.1 0.0
15-3 45.0% 0.2    0.1 0.1 0.0
14-4 12.9% 0.1    0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
13-5 3.7% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-6 0.0%
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 0.5% 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 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
17-1 0.0% 100.0% 25.0% 75.0% 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-2 0.1% 100.0% 22.0% 78.0% 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-3 0.4% 100.0% 13.7% 86.3% 3.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-4 0.8% 100.0% 10.3% 89.7% 4.9 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 100.0%
13-5 1.9% 97.0% 3.3% 93.6% 6.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 96.9%
12-6 2.9% 93.6% 3.4% 90.2% 7.4 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.2 93.4%
11-7 4.6% 80.1% 0.8% 79.3% 8.3 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.9 0.7 0.2 0.0 0.9 79.9%
10-8 5.9% 60.4% 0.5% 60.0% 9.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.0 1.3 0.5 0.0 2.3 60.2%
9-9 8.6% 35.0% 0.1% 34.9% 9.8 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.2 0.8 0.0 5.6 35.0%
8-10 10.1% 13.6% 0.1% 13.5% 10.3 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.7 0.0 8.7 13.5%
7-11 11.9% 4.2% 0.1% 4.1% 10.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 11.4 4.1%
6-12 12.5% 0.4% 0.4% 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.5 0.4%
5-13 12.3% 12.3
4-14 10.3% 10.3
3-15 8.5% 8.5
2-16 5.2% 5.2
1-17 2.9% 2.9
0-18 1.0% 1.0
Total 100% 18.1% 0.4% 17.6% 8.3 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 1.1 1.4 1.9 2.5 3.2 4.1 2.6 0.1 81.9 17.7%