Preseason Rankings
Southern Illinois
Missouri Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+1.1#141
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace69.3#139
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+0.3#155
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+0.9#136
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 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 7.7% 8.3% 3.7%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.3 12.2 13.0
.500 or above 52.7% 56.4% 27.3%
.500 or above in Conference 55.5% 58.2% 37.5%
Conference Champion 8.3% 8.9% 4.0%
Last Place in Conference 7.1% 6.2% 12.9%
First Four0.3% 0.3% 0.3%
First Round7.6% 8.2% 3.6%
Second Round1.1% 1.2% 0.5%
Sweet Sixteen0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
Elite Eight0.0% 0.1% 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: UMKC (Home) - 87.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 20 - 2
Quad 22 - 52 - 7
Quad 36 - 78 - 14
Quad 48 - 216 - 16


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 07, 2025 301   UMKC W 72-60 87%    
  Nov 12, 2025 98   @ Nevada L 63-70 26%    
  Nov 17, 2025 208   @ North Dakota St. W 71-70 53%    
  Nov 24, 2025 242   Delaware W 79-73 69%    
  Nov 24, 2025 102   UAB L 73-77 37%    
  Nov 26, 2025 53   @ Memphis L 69-81 14%    
  Nov 29, 2025 177   Arkansas Little Rock W 72-67 68%    
  Dec 03, 2025 108   @ High Point L 69-75 30%    
  Dec 10, 2025 323   Tennessee Martin W 77-63 88%    
  Dec 13, 2025 137   @ Richmond L 65-69 38%    
  Dec 18, 2025 109   Illinois St. W 72-71 50%    
  Dec 21, 2025 107   @ Bradley L 66-72 30%    
  Dec 29, 2025 127   @ Murray St. L 66-70 37%    
  Jan 01, 2026 261   Valparaiso W 77-68 79%    
  Jan 04, 2026 112   @ Belmont L 74-79 32%    
  Jan 07, 2026 154   @ Illinois-Chicago L 72-74 44%    
  Jan 14, 2026 114   Drake W 62-61 52%    
  Jan 17, 2026 112   Belmont W 77-76 52%    
  Jan 21, 2026 261   @ Valparaiso W 74-71 61%    
  Jan 25, 2026 241   @ Evansville W 70-67 59%    
  Jan 28, 2026 110   Northern Iowa W 69-68 51%    
  Jan 31, 2026 154   Illinois-Chicago W 75-71 63%    
  Feb 03, 2026 109   @ Illinois St. L 68-74 31%    
  Feb 06, 2026 127   Murray St. W 69-67 57%    
  Feb 09, 2026 170   @ Indiana St. L 78-79 47%    
  Feb 12, 2026 241   Evansville W 73-64 76%    
  Feb 15, 2026 107   Bradley L 69-70 50%    
  Feb 18, 2026 114   @ Drake L 59-64 33%    
  Feb 21, 2026 110   @ Northern Iowa L 65-71 32%    
  Feb 25, 2026 170   Indiana St. W 81-76 67%    
Projected Record 15 - 15 10 - 10





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Missouri 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 0.3 1.0 1.8 2.3 1.5 0.9 0.3 0.1 8.3 1st
2nd 0.1 0.6 2.0 3.0 2.5 1.0 0.2 0.0 9.3 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.6 2.9 3.8 2.1 0.5 0.1 0.0 10.0 3rd
4th 0.0 0.8 3.3 4.1 1.8 0.4 0.0 10.4 4th
5th 0.1 0.8 3.3 4.4 1.6 0.2 0.0 10.5 5th
6th 0.1 0.9 3.5 4.4 1.6 0.2 10.7 6th
7th 0.0 0.1 1.1 3.7 4.1 1.7 0.1 10.8 7th
8th 0.0 0.2 1.1 3.2 3.5 1.5 0.1 9.7 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 1.7 3.1 2.8 1.1 0.1 9.2 9th
10th 0.1 0.6 1.6 2.3 1.6 0.5 0.1 6.8 10th
11th 0.1 0.3 0.8 1.3 1.2 0.6 0.1 0.0 4.4 11th
Total 0.1 0.3 0.9 1.9 3.2 4.9 6.0 7.8 9.4 10.1 10.4 10.1 9.3 8.0 6.5 4.8 3.4 1.7 0.9 0.3 0.1 Total



Missouri Valley 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% 0.1    0.1
19-1 100.0% 0.3    0.3 0.0
18-2 97.0% 0.9    0.8 0.1 0.0
17-3 88.2% 1.5    1.2 0.3 0.0
16-4 68.8% 2.3    1.6 0.7 0.1
15-5 37.6% 1.8    0.8 0.7 0.2 0.0
14-6 14.9% 1.0    0.3 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0
13-7 3.4% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.1% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 8.3% 8.3 5.2 2.2 0.7 0.1 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
20-0 0.1% 68.0% 52.0% 16.0% 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 33.3%
19-1 0.3% 60.4% 50.8% 9.6% 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 19.4%
18-2 0.9% 50.6% 42.3% 8.3% 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.5 14.3%
17-3 1.7% 35.0% 33.3% 1.7% 11.2 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.0 1.1 2.5%
16-4 3.4% 27.9% 27.5% 0.4% 11.5 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 2.5 0.5%
15-5 4.8% 21.1% 21.0% 0.1% 11.8 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.1 3.8 0.1%
14-6 6.5% 16.7% 16.7% 12.2 0.2 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.0 5.4
13-7 8.0% 12.6% 12.6% 12.6 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 7.0
12-8 9.3% 7.9% 7.9% 12.8 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0 8.6
11-9 10.1% 6.2% 6.2% 13.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 9.4
10-10 10.4% 4.0% 4.0% 14.3 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 9.9
9-11 10.1% 2.5% 2.5% 15.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 9.8
8-12 9.4% 1.1% 1.1% 16.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 9.2
7-13 7.8% 0.8% 0.8% 15.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.7
6-14 6.0% 0.6% 0.6% 15.9 0.0 0.0 6.0
5-15 4.9% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 4.9
4-16 3.2% 0.4% 0.4% 16.0 0.0 3.2
3-17 1.9% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 1.9
2-18 0.9% 0.9
1-19 0.3% 0.3
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 7.7% 7.5% 0.2% 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 1.8 2.7 1.5 0.6 0.4 0.3 92.3 0.2%


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 0.0% 100.0% 4.7 32.5 34.1 33.3
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 100.0% 4.0 100.0