Preseason Rankings
Western Kentucky
Conference USA
2019-20
Overall
Predictive Rating+6.8#76
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.8#172
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+4.2#70
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+2.6#97
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 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 0.3% 0.4% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 1.4% 1.4% 0.2%
Top 6 Seed 3.1% 3.2% 0.6%
NCAA Tourney Bid 32.9% 33.5% 17.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 7.3% 7.6% 1.4%
Average Seed 10.9 10.9 12.1
.500 or above 89.4% 90.2% 68.9%
.500 or above in Conference 92.6% 92.9% 84.2%
Conference Champion 37.7% 38.2% 24.4%
Last Place in Conference 0.4% 0.3% 1.3%
First Four2.8% 2.9% 0.5%
First Round31.6% 32.1% 17.7%
Second Round10.6% 10.8% 4.7%
Sweet Sixteen3.7% 3.8% 1.7%
Elite Eight1.1% 1.2% 0.3%
Final Four0.4% 0.4% 0.2%
Championship Game0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.1% 0.0%

Next Game: Tennessee Tech (Home) - 96.1% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 12 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 22 - 23 - 4
Quad 37 - 39 - 7
Quad 48 - 117 - 8


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 05, 2019 310   Tennessee Tech W 81-62 96%    
  Nov 09, 2019 211   Austin Peay W 82-69 89%    
  Nov 15, 2019 274   @ Eastern Kentucky W 89-79 82%    
  Nov 22, 2019 108   Bowling Green W 78-75 61%    
  Nov 29, 2019 6   Louisville L 66-78 14%    
  Dec 03, 2019 103   @ Wright St. L 69-70 49%    
  Dec 07, 2019 57   Arkansas W 77-76 52%    
  Dec 21, 2019 86   @ Rhode Island L 71-73 42%    
  Dec 28, 2019 80   Belmont W 80-77 61%    
  Jan 02, 2020 152   North Texas W 72-63 79%    
  Jan 04, 2020 229   Rice W 84-70 87%    
  Jan 09, 2020 140   @ UAB W 71-68 59%    
  Jan 11, 2020 174   @ Middle Tennessee W 74-69 66%    
  Jan 16, 2020 139   Old Dominion W 69-60 77%    
  Jan 18, 2020 276   Charlotte W 75-59 91%    
  Jan 22, 2020 188   @ Marshall W 84-78 69%    
  Jan 25, 2020 188   Marshall W 87-75 83%    
  Jan 30, 2020 163   @ Florida Atlantic W 73-69 63%    
  Feb 01, 2020 185   @ Florida International W 88-82 68%    
  Feb 06, 2020 116   Louisiana Tech W 73-67 69%    
  Feb 08, 2020 238   Southern Miss W 76-62 88%    
  Feb 13, 2020 169   @ UTEP W 72-68 63%    
  Feb 15, 2020 121   @ Texas San Antonio W 79-78 53%    
Projected Record 16 - 7 10 - 4





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Conference USA Finish

0-14 1-13 2-12 3-11 4-10 5-9 6-8 7-7 8-6 9-5 10-4 11-3 12-2 13-1 14-0 Total
1st 0.1 1.7 7.9 12.3 10.9 4.8 37.7 1st
2nd 0.0 1.3 6.2 7.9 3.0 0.3 18.6 2nd
3rd 0.5 4.3 5.9 1.4 0.1 12.1 3rd
4th 0.1 2.1 5.1 1.7 0.1 9.1 4th
5th 0.5 3.5 2.0 0.1 6.1 5th
6th 0.0 2.0 2.5 0.3 4.7 6th
7th 0.0 0.5 2.2 0.6 0.0 3.4 7th
8th 0.1 1.4 1.1 0.0 2.6 8th
9th 0.0 0.5 1.4 0.3 2.3 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.8 0.5 0.0 1.5 10th
11th 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.9 11th
12th 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.6 12th
13th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 13th
14th 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 14th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.9 2.1 3.9 6.2 9.3 13.0 15.5 17.3 15.4 11.2 4.8 Total



Conference USA Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
14-0 100.0% 4.8    4.8
13-1 97.6% 10.9    9.2 1.6 0.0
12-2 79.7% 12.3    7.7 4.1 0.5 0.0
11-3 46.0% 7.9    2.3 3.7 1.6 0.3 0.0
10-4 11.1% 1.7    0.2 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.0
9-5 0.6% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
8-6 0.0%
7-7 0.0%
Total 37.7% 37.7 24.2 9.9 2.7 0.7 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
14-0 4.8% 84.6% 62.3% 22.3% 6.9 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.7 59.1%
13-1 11.2% 68.9% 50.2% 18.7% 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.9 1.5 0.4 0.0 3.5 37.5%
12-2 15.4% 50.9% 41.6% 9.3% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.8 2.1 3.0 1.0 0.1 0.0 7.6 15.9%
11-3 17.3% 36.4% 33.0% 3.4% 12.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.0 2.8 1.7 0.5 0.0 11.0 5.1%
10-4 15.5% 23.5% 22.9% 0.6% 12.7 0.0 0.0 0.2 1.4 1.3 0.6 0.1 0.0 11.9 0.8%
9-5 13.0% 16.1% 15.9% 0.2% 13.1 0.0 0.5 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.0 10.9 0.2%
8-6 9.3% 9.2% 9.2% 0.0% 13.5 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 8.4 0.0%
7-7 6.2% 5.0% 5.0% 13.8 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 5.9
6-8 3.9% 3.0% 3.0% 14.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.8
5-9 2.1% 0.8% 0.8% 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.1
4-10 0.9% 0.1% 0.1% 15.0 0.0 0.9
3-11 0.3% 0.3
2-12 0.1% 0.1
1-13 0.0% 0.0
0-14
Total 100% 32.9% 27.6% 5.3% 10.9 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.9 1.1 1.7 2.2 5.8 9.4 5.8 2.2 0.5 0.0 67.1 7.3%


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 0.3% 100.0% 2.6 22.6 27.2 29.3 14.2 6.3 0.4
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 100.0% 4.1 8.1 81.1 8.1 2.7
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 97.4% 3.9 5.1 35.9 41.0 2.6 5.1 2.6 2.6 2.6