Preseason Rankings
DePaul
Big East
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+6.5#84
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.0#184
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+3.9#77
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+2.6#99
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 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 1.5% 1.6% 0.2%
NCAA Tourney Bid 11.6% 11.9% 1.6%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 10.9% 11.1% 1.2%
Average Seed 8.8 8.8 9.2
.500 or above 48.1% 48.8% 15.0%
.500 or above in Conference 19.1% 19.4% 3.9%
Conference Champion 0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
Last Place in Conference 25.7% 25.2% 48.6%
First Four2.8% 2.9% 0.2%
First Round10.1% 10.2% 1.6%
Second Round4.9% 5.0% 0.4%
Sweet Sixteen1.2% 1.2% 0.0%
Elite Eight0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
Final Four0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Championship Game0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Chicago St. (Home) - 97.9% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 61 - 6
Quad 1b1 - 42 - 10
Quad 24 - 56 - 14
Quad 33 - 19 - 16
Quad 47 - 015 - 16


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 349   Chicago St. W 83-62 98%    
  Nov 07, 2025 340   Stonehill W 78-57 97%    
  Nov 11, 2025 334   Buffalo W 85-65 96%    
  Nov 14, 2025 71   Northwestern W 69-68 55%    
  Nov 18, 2025 307   Gardner-Webb W 82-64 94%    
  Nov 23, 2025 309   Detroit Mercy W 80-62 94%    
  Nov 28, 2025 83   Georgia Tech L 72-73 50%    
  Dec 06, 2025 364   Arkansas Pine Bluff W 92-60 99.7%   
  Dec 09, 2025 355   Morgan St. W 87-64 98%    
  Dec 13, 2025 122   @ Wichita St. W 74-73 54%    
  Dec 16, 2025 8   @ St. John's L 66-81 10%    
  Dec 21, 2025 4   Connecticut L 63-75 15%    
  Dec 31, 2025 39   @ Villanova L 62-71 21%    
  Jan 03, 2026 50   Xavier L 73-74 46%    
  Jan 06, 2026 69   Georgetown W 73-72 54%    
  Jan 10, 2026 4   @ Connecticut L 60-78 6%    
  Jan 16, 2026 43   Marquette L 70-73 41%    
  Jan 20, 2026 66   @ Butler L 70-75 33%    
  Jan 24, 2026 101   Seton Hall W 68-64 65%    
  Jan 28, 2026 69   @ Georgetown L 70-75 34%    
  Jan 31, 2026 50   @ Xavier L 70-77 27%    
  Feb 03, 2026 8   St. John's L 69-78 22%    
  Feb 07, 2026 59   @ Providence L 68-74 31%    
  Feb 11, 2026 24   Creighton L 70-76 32%    
  Feb 18, 2026 101   @ Seton Hall L 65-67 45%    
  Feb 21, 2026 59   Providence L 71-72 50%    
  Feb 25, 2026 24   @ Creighton L 67-79 17%    
  Mar 01, 2026 43   @ Marquette L 67-76 23%    
  Mar 04, 2026 39   Villanova L 65-68 39%    
  Mar 07, 2026 66   Butler W 73-72 52%    
Projected Record 15 - 15 7 - 13




Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.



Projected Big East 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 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.5 1st
2nd 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 1.4 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.3 0.9 0.9 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 2.9 3rd
4th 0.1 0.8 1.9 1.5 0.6 0.1 0.0 4.9 4th
5th 0.1 1.2 2.7 2.2 0.6 0.1 0.0 6.8 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.7 3.5 2.5 0.6 0.0 0.0 8.6 6th
7th 0.0 0.3 2.6 4.6 2.8 0.7 0.0 0.0 11.1 7th
8th 0.0 0.8 3.2 5.3 3.2 0.6 0.0 13.1 8th
9th 0.0 0.2 1.5 4.4 5.7 3.0 0.5 0.0 15.3 9th
10th 0.0 0.9 3.2 5.6 5.1 2.2 0.4 0.0 17.5 10th
11th 0.9 3.0 4.6 5.1 3.1 1.0 0.2 0.0 17.9 11th
Total 0.9 3.0 5.5 8.4 10.3 11.3 11.6 11.5 10.2 8.2 6.6 5.1 3.1 1.9 1.3 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 Total



Big East Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
20-0
19-1 100.0% 0.0    0.0
18-2 99.7% 0.0    0.0 0.0
17-3 83.9% 0.1    0.0 0.0
16-4 45.8% 0.1    0.1 0.0 0.0
15-5 21.4% 0.1    0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
14-6 5.2% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
13-7 1.5% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 0.5% 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 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
20-0
19-1 0.0% 100.0% 100.0% 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
18-2 0.0% 100.0% 33.2% 66.8% 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-3 0.1% 100.0% 20.1% 79.9% 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-4 0.3% 100.0% 18.6% 81.4% 4.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-5 0.7% 98.8% 9.6% 89.2% 6.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 98.7%
14-6 1.3% 95.2% 10.6% 84.5% 7.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 94.6%
13-7 1.9% 86.4% 5.5% 80.9% 8.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.3 85.6%
12-8 3.1% 67.9% 2.3% 65.6% 9.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.2 0.0 1.0 67.1%
11-9 5.1% 51.6% 2.9% 48.7% 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.0 0.4 0.0 2.5 50.1%
10-10 6.6% 28.0% 1.5% 26.6% 9.9 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.0 4.8 27.0%
9-11 8.2% 10.0% 0.8% 9.3% 10.5 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.0 7.4 9.3%
8-12 10.2% 2.0% 0.4% 1.6% 10.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 10.0 1.7%
7-13 11.5% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.4 0.1%
6-14 11.6% 0.1% 0.1% 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.5
5-15 11.3% 0.1% 0.1% 12.5 0.0 0.0 11.3
4-16 10.3% 0.0% 0.0% 15.0 0.0 10.3
3-17 8.4% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 8.4
2-18 5.5% 5.5
1-19 3.0% 3.0
0-20 0.9% 0.9
Total 100% 11.6% 0.9% 10.8% 8.8 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.7 1.1 1.6 2.2 3.3 1.8 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 88.4 10.9%