Preseason Rankings
Southeast Missouri St.
Ohio Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-3.8#231
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace71.1#94
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-3.2#268
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-0.7#187
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 15.3% 25.7% 14.4%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 15.8 14.0 14.8
.500 or above 58.9% 84.2% 56.6%
.500 or above in Conference 74.6% 88.0% 73.4%
Conference Champion 16.2% 29.8% 14.9%
Last Place in Conference 2.8% 1.1% 2.9%
First Four2.4% 1.5% 2.5%
First Round15.4% 26.1% 14.5%
Second Round0.5% 1.0% 0.4%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
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: Saint Louis (Away) - 8.2% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 20 - 10 - 4
Quad 32 - 42 - 7
Quad 413 - 615 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 72   @ Saint Louis L 64-79 8%    
  Nov 07, 2025 37   @ Missouri L 65-85 3%    
  Nov 15, 2025 148   St. Thomas L 73-74 45%    
  Nov 18, 2025 32   @ Iowa L 66-87 3%    
  Nov 25, 2025 256   Cal Poly W 82-81 54%    
  Nov 26, 2025 263   @ Northern Arizona L 71-72 45%    
  Nov 29, 2025 188   Lipscomb W 70-69 54%    
  Dec 06, 2025 125   @ Chattanooga L 68-77 22%    
  Dec 18, 2025 328   @ Tennessee Tech W 73-70 61%    
  Dec 20, 2025 259   @ Tennessee St. L 74-76 45%    
  Jan 01, 2026 322   Eastern Illinois W 72-63 77%    
  Jan 03, 2026 339   Western Illinois W 73-63 82%    
  Jan 08, 2026 298   @ Southern Indiana W 72-71 52%    
  Jan 10, 2026 293   @ Morehead St. W 67-66 51%    
  Jan 15, 2026 327   Lindenwood W 76-67 78%    
  Jan 17, 2026 240   SIU Edwardsville W 70-66 61%    
  Jan 20, 2026 323   Tennessee Martin W 75-66 77%    
  Jan 22, 2026 177   Arkansas Little Rock W 70-69 52%    
  Jan 29, 2026 339   @ Western Illinois W 70-66 63%    
  Jan 31, 2026 322   @ Eastern Illinois W 69-66 59%    
  Feb 05, 2026 293   Morehead St. W 69-63 70%    
  Feb 07, 2026 298   Southern Indiana W 75-68 71%    
  Feb 12, 2026 240   @ SIU Edwardsville L 67-69 41%    
  Feb 14, 2026 327   @ Lindenwood W 73-70 59%    
  Feb 17, 2026 323   @ Tennessee Martin W 72-69 59%    
  Feb 21, 2026 177   @ Arkansas Little Rock L 67-72 33%    
  Feb 28, 2026 328   Tennessee Tech W 76-67 77%    
Projected Record 14 - 13 12 - 7





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Ohio 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 0.6 1.9 3.5 4.3 3.4 1.9 0.5 16.2 1st
2nd 0.1 1.2 3.5 5.6 4.3 1.9 0.4 0.0 17.1 2nd
3rd 0.2 1.4 4.7 5.2 2.8 0.7 0.0 15.0 3rd
4th 0.1 1.6 4.3 4.4 1.8 0.3 0.0 12.5 4th
5th 0.0 0.1 1.1 3.9 3.8 1.2 0.1 0.0 10.2 5th
6th 0.1 1.0 3.3 3.0 1.0 0.1 8.5 6th
7th 0.0 0.0 0.8 2.5 2.7 0.7 0.0 6.9 7th
8th 0.1 0.6 1.9 2.1 0.6 0.0 5.4 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.4 1.3 0.4 0.0 3.7 9th
10th 0.0 0.2 0.5 1.0 0.9 0.2 0.0 2.9 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 1.6 11th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.1 2.0 3.0 4.3 6.3 7.9 9.6 10.6 11.6 11.3 10.5 8.6 6.3 3.8 1.9 0.5 Total



Ohio Valley 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% 0.5    0.5
18-2 98.5% 1.9    1.8 0.1
17-3 88.4% 3.4    2.9 0.5 0.0
16-4 69.2% 4.3    2.9 1.2 0.2
15-5 41.2% 3.5    1.7 1.4 0.3 0.0
14-6 17.9% 1.9    0.5 0.9 0.4 0.0 0.0
13-7 5.5% 0.6    0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0
12-8 0.3% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 16.2% 16.2 10.4 4.4 1.1 0.2 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 0.5% 66.7% 66.7% 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2
18-2 1.9% 62.1% 62.1% 13.0 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.7
17-3 3.8% 47.6% 47.6% 13.8 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.0 2.0
16-4 6.3% 40.3% 40.3% 14.5 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.0 0.8 0.2 3.7
15-5 8.6% 31.6% 31.6% 15.7 0.0 0.2 0.8 1.2 0.6 5.8
14-6 10.5% 24.9% 24.9% 17.2 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.3 1.1 7.9
13-7 11.3% 15.4% 15.4% 17.3 0.0 0.1 0.9 0.9 9.6
12-8 11.6% 9.5% 9.5% 18.2 0.0 0.4 0.9 10.5
11-9 10.6% 6.4% 6.4% 19.0 0.0 0.1 0.7 9.9
10-10 9.6% 3.4% 3.4% 18.0 0.0 0.3 9.2
9-11 7.9% 2.9% 2.9% 16.6 0.0 0.2 7.7
8-12 6.3% 1.3% 1.3% 16.0 0.1 6.2
7-13 4.3% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 4.3
6-14 3.0% 3.0
5-15 2.0% 2.0
4-16 1.1% 1.1
3-17 0.5% 0.5
2-18 0.2% 0.2
1-19 0.1% 0.1
0-20 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 15.3% 15.3% 0.0% 15.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.7 2.0 3.6 5.2 4.9 84.7 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
Win Out 0.0% 100.0% 8.8 2.4 97.6
Lose Out 0.0%