Preseason Rankings
Delaware
Conference USA
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-4.5#242
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace74.7#35
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-0.7#184
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-3.8#297
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 1.9% 2.9% 1.0%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 13.8 13.3 14.2
.500 or above 23.3% 33.4% 13.7%
.500 or above in Conference 23.3% 30.0% 17.0%
Conference Champion 1.9% 2.7% 1.1%
Last Place in Conference 28.1% 21.9% 34.0%
First Four0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
First Round1.9% 2.8% 1.0%
Second Round0.1% 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: Bucknell (Away) - 48.9% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 21 - 41 - 6
Quad 34 - 94 - 15
Quad 48 - 512 - 20


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 287   @ Bucknell L 75-76 49%    
  Nov 11, 2025 9   @ BYU L 66-92 1%    
  Nov 18, 2025 297   St. Peter's W 71-65 71%    
  Nov 24, 2025 141   Southern Illinois L 73-79 31%    
  Nov 25, 2025 225   UNC Greensboro L 70-71 47%    
  Dec 01, 2025 199   Iona W 77-76 53%    
  Dec 06, 2025 338   @ Delaware St. W 81-78 62%    
  Dec 10, 2025 85   @ George Washington L 70-84 12%    
  Dec 13, 2025 176   Cal St. Northridge L 81-82 49%    
  Dec 16, 2025 313   Rider W 76-69 72%    
  Dec 29, 2025 162   Missouri St. L 70-71 47%    
  Jan 02, 2026 153   Jacksonville St. L 71-73 44%    
  Jan 04, 2026 142   Kennesaw St. L 79-81 43%    
  Jan 08, 2026 194   @ Sam Houston St. L 74-79 33%    
  Jan 10, 2026 143   @ Louisiana Tech L 67-75 25%    
  Jan 15, 2026 157   UTEP L 75-76 45%    
  Jan 17, 2026 138   New Mexico St. L 70-73 40%    
  Jan 24, 2026 97   @ Liberty L 67-80 15%    
  Jan 28, 2026 138   @ New Mexico St. L 67-76 23%    
  Jan 31, 2026 157   @ UTEP L 72-79 27%    
  Feb 04, 2026 97   Liberty L 70-77 29%    
  Feb 07, 2026 147   Middle Tennessee L 75-77 44%    
  Feb 12, 2026 210   @ Florida International L 74-78 36%    
  Feb 14, 2026 162   @ Missouri St. L 67-74 29%    
  Feb 18, 2026 156   Western Kentucky L 81-82 45%    
  Feb 21, 2026 147   @ Middle Tennessee L 72-80 26%    
  Feb 26, 2026 153   @ Jacksonville St. L 68-76 27%    
  Feb 28, 2026 142   @ Kennesaw St. L 76-84 25%    
  Mar 05, 2026 194   Sam Houston St. W 77-76 52%    
  Mar 07, 2026 143   Louisiana Tech L 70-72 43%    
Projected Record 11 - 19 7 - 13





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 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 1.9 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 0.7 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.0 2.6 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.2 1.3 0.5 0.1 0.0 3.5 3rd
4th 0.0 0.4 1.5 1.6 0.6 0.1 0.0 4.2 4th
5th 0.0 0.3 1.8 2.2 0.8 0.1 5.3 5th
6th 0.0 0.3 1.8 2.7 1.2 0.1 0.0 6.1 6th
7th 0.0 0.2 2.0 3.6 1.7 0.2 0.0 7.7 7th
8th 0.0 0.3 2.0 4.0 2.1 0.4 0.0 8.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.5 2.3 4.5 3.0 0.5 0.0 10.7 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 1.0 3.2 5.0 3.2 0.6 0.1 13.1 10th
11th 0.1 0.5 2.2 4.3 5.1 2.9 0.7 0.0 15.8 11th
12th 0.9 2.9 4.6 5.6 4.1 1.9 0.4 0.0 20.4 12th
Total 0.9 3.0 5.1 7.9 9.4 10.6 10.9 10.6 9.8 8.3 6.9 5.5 4.0 2.9 1.8 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 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% 0.0    0.0
19-1 100.0% 0.0    0.0
18-2 100.0% 0.1    0.1 0.0
17-3 88.8% 0.3    0.2 0.1 0.0
16-4 66.5% 0.5    0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0
15-5 42.0% 0.4    0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0
14-6 22.3% 0.4    0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0
13-7 3.6% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.1% 0.0    0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 1.9% 1.9 1.0 0.6 0.2 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 0.0% 0.0
19-1 0.0% 37.6% 37.6% 11.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
18-2 0.1% 28.5% 28.4% 0.1% 11.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2%
17-3 0.3% 28.9% 27.6% 1.3% 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 1.7%
16-4 0.7% 19.8% 19.8% 12.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.6
15-5 1.1% 15.6% 15.6% 12.7 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.9
14-6 1.8% 14.0% 14.0% 12.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.6
13-7 2.9% 10.8% 10.8% 13.4 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 2.6
12-8 4.0% 6.2% 6.2% 13.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.8
11-9 5.5% 4.3% 4.3% 15.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 5.2
10-10 6.9% 2.5% 2.5% 14.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 6.7
9-11 8.3% 1.5% 1.5% 15.9 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 8.2
8-12 9.8% 0.7% 0.7% 16.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.8
7-13 10.6% 0.3% 0.3% 18.4 0.0 0.0 10.6
6-14 10.9% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.9
5-15 10.6% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 10.6
4-16 9.4% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 9.4
3-17 7.9% 7.9
2-18 5.1% 5.1
1-19 3.0% 3.0
0-20 0.9% 0.9
Total 100% 1.9% 1.9% 0.0% 13.8 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 98.1 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 0.1%