Preseason Rankings
Kent St.
Mid-American
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+2.1#127
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace65.7#246
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+0.5#149
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+1.6#121
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 17.3% 20.3% 12.7%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.8 12.6 13.1
.500 or above 85.6% 92.0% 75.5%
.500 or above in Conference 88.2% 92.0% 82.4%
Conference Champion 25.2% 29.8% 18.0%
Last Place in Conference 0.5% 0.4% 0.7%
First Four0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
First Round17.3% 20.3% 12.7%
Second Round2.3% 2.9% 1.3%
Sweet Sixteen0.4% 0.5% 0.2%
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: Troy (Home) - 61.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 00 - 1
Quad 20 - 11 - 3
Quad 35 - 46 - 7
Quad 413 - 319 - 10


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 130   Troy W 68-65 61%    
  Nov 07, 2025 165   Cornell W 79-73 71%    
  Nov 10, 2025 120   UNC Wilmington W 70-67 59%    
  Nov 15, 2025 223   Cleveland St. W 69-63 70%    
  Nov 16, 2025 206   Wright St. W 73-68 67%    
  Nov 22, 2025 223   Cleveland St. W 71-62 78%    
  Dec 03, 2025 272   Austin Peay W 73-62 84%    
  Dec 14, 2025 265   @ Portland W 74-69 66%    
  Dec 20, 2025 170   @ Massachusetts W 72-71 50%    
  Dec 29, 2025 2   @ Purdue L 57-81 2%    
  Jan 03, 2026 314   Northern Illinois W 78-64 88%    
  Jan 06, 2026 212   Bowling Green W 74-66 75%    
  Jan 10, 2026 299   @ Central Michigan W 72-65 72%    
  Jan 13, 2026 337   @ Buffalo W 77-67 80%    
  Jan 17, 2026 196   Toledo W 77-70 73%    
  Jan 20, 2026 125   Miami (OH) W 73-70 60%    
  Jan 24, 2026 292   @ Eastern Michigan W 73-67 71%    
  Jan 27, 2026 152   Ohio W 76-71 66%    
  Jan 31, 2026 108   @ Akron L 72-77 34%    
  Feb 03, 2026 196   @ Toledo W 74-73 55%    
  Feb 11, 2026 292   Eastern Michigan W 76-64 85%    
  Feb 14, 2026 247   @ Ball St. W 71-67 61%    
  Feb 17, 2026 212   @ Bowling Green W 71-69 57%    
  Feb 24, 2026 299   Central Michigan W 75-62 85%    
  Feb 28, 2026 108   Akron W 75-74 53%    
  Mar 03, 2026 314   @ Northern Illinois W 75-67 74%    
  Mar 06, 2026 282   Western Michigan W 76-64 83%    
Projected Record 18 - 9 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Mid-American 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 0.2 1.5 4.4 6.3 6.9 4.5 1.5 25.2 1st
2nd 0.0 0.2 2.1 5.6 6.5 3.4 0.8 0.0 18.6 2nd
3rd 0.2 2.1 5.4 5.2 1.9 0.3 15.0 3rd
4th 0.2 1.6 4.4 4.1 1.1 0.1 11.3 4th
5th 0.0 1.1 3.6 3.2 0.9 0.0 8.9 5th
6th 0.0 0.5 2.3 2.6 0.7 0.0 6.2 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 1.8 2.1 0.8 0.0 5.0 7th
8th 0.2 1.0 1.7 0.6 0.0 3.5 8th
9th 0.1 0.7 1.2 0.6 0.0 2.6 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.8 0.5 0.1 1.7 10th
11th 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.1 1.0 11th
12th 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.6 12th
13th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 13th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.0 2.1 3.1 4.7 6.3 8.9 10.6 12.7 13.3 12.9 10.0 7.7 4.5 1.5 Total



Mid-American 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% 1.5    1.5
17-1 99.8% 4.5    4.2 0.2
16-2 89.7% 6.9    5.4 1.4 0.1
15-3 63.2% 6.3    3.5 2.5 0.3 0.0
14-4 33.9% 4.4    1.7 1.9 0.7 0.1
13-5 10.9% 1.5    0.2 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.0
12-6 1.8% 0.2    0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 25.2% 25.2 16.6 6.7 1.6 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
18-0 1.5% 58.0% 55.2% 2.8% 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.6 6.3%
17-1 4.5% 46.2% 45.7% 0.5% 11.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.8 0.9 0.2 0.0 2.4 0.9%
16-2 7.7% 38.9% 38.8% 0.1% 12.0 0.0 0.6 1.7 0.6 0.1 4.7 0.1%
15-3 10.0% 30.6% 30.6% 12.5 0.2 1.5 1.1 0.2 6.9
14-4 12.9% 24.5% 24.5% 13.0 0.0 0.9 1.4 0.7 0.1 9.7
13-5 13.3% 14.8% 14.8% 13.6 0.0 0.2 0.9 0.6 0.2 0.0 11.4
12-6 12.7% 12.0% 12.0% 13.8 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.0 11.2
11-7 10.6% 8.9% 8.9% 14.8 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.1 9.6
10-8 8.9% 5.4% 5.4% 15.6 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 8.4
9-9 6.3% 2.9% 2.9% 15.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 6.1
8-10 4.7% 1.7% 1.7% 17.3 0.0 0.1 4.6
7-11 3.1% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 3.1
6-12 2.1% 2.1
5-13 1.0% 1.0
4-14 0.6% 0.6
3-15 0.2% 0.2
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18
Total 100% 17.3% 17.2% 0.1% 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 2.1 5.6 4.9 2.8 1.3 0.3 82.7 0.1%


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, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 34.9% 10.9 2.3 32.6