Preseason Rankings
Minnesota
Big Ten
2020-21
Overall
Predictive Rating+11.2#37
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace66.3#246
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+5.5#43
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+5.7#40
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
#1 Seed 2.1% 2.2% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 5.2% 5.4% 0.8%
Top 4 Seed 13.8% 14.2% 3.1%
Top 6 Seed 24.1% 24.7% 6.1%
NCAA Tourney Bid 47.3% 48.3% 20.4%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 45.0% 46.0% 19.3%
Average Seed 6.6 6.5 8.2
.500 or above 62.5% 63.7% 29.9%
.500 or above in Conference 47.2% 48.0% 25.4%
Conference Champion 4.5% 4.7% 1.4%
Last Place in Conference 6.8% 6.3% 18.9%
First Four3.8% 3.8% 3.7%
First Round45.6% 46.5% 18.9%
Second Round29.6% 30.3% 10.0%
Sweet Sixteen14.2% 14.6% 4.0%
Elite Eight6.6% 6.8% 1.8%
Final Four2.9% 3.0% 0.9%
Championship Game1.3% 1.3% 0.3%
National Champion0.6% 0.6% 0.0%

Next Game: Green Bay (Home) - 96.5% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 8 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a2 - 62 - 6
Quad 1b2 - 35 - 9
Quad 24 - 28 - 12
Quad 33 - 111 - 12
Quad 43 - 015 - 12


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 25, 2020 240   Green Bay W 89-70 96%    
  Dec 04, 2020 248   North Dakota W 82-62 96%    
  Dec 08, 2020 101   Boston College W 76-67 81%    
  Dec 10, 2020 275   UMKC W 77-56 97%    
  Dec 15, 2020 13   @ Illinois L 66-73 27%    
  Dec 20, 2020 52   Saint Louis W 71-67 65%    
  Dec 25, 2020 9   Iowa L 76-78 45%    
  Dec 28, 2020 10   Michigan St. L 72-73 45%    
  Dec 31, 2020 8   @ Wisconsin L 61-69 26%    
  Jan 03, 2021 17   Ohio St. L 68-69 49%    
  Jan 06, 2021 19   @ Michigan L 69-75 30%    
  Jan 10, 2021 9   @ Iowa L 73-81 27%    
  Jan 15, 2021 19   Michigan L 71-72 50%    
  Jan 20, 2021 113   @ Nebraska W 78-74 63%    
  Jan 22, 2021 39   Maryland W 71-68 61%    
  Jan 30, 2021 28   @ Purdue L 64-68 36%    
  Feb 04, 2021 33   @ Rutgers L 67-70 38%    
  Feb 07, 2021 113   Nebraska W 81-71 80%    
  Feb 11, 2021 28   Purdue W 67-65 56%    
  Feb 14, 2021 39   @ Maryland L 68-71 41%    
  Feb 17, 2021 24   @ Indiana L 67-72 33%    
  Feb 20, 2021 13   Illinois L 69-70 47%    
  Feb 27, 2021 80   Northwestern W 72-65 73%    
  Mar 03, 2021 62   @ Penn St. L 73-74 48%    
  Mar 06, 2021 33   Rutgers W 70-67 58%    
Projected Record 14 - 11 9 - 11





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Big Ten 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 0.1 0.4 0.9 1.4 1.1 0.5 0.2 0.0 4.5 1st
2nd 0.0 0.1 0.8 1.7 1.5 0.9 0.2 0.1 5.3 2nd
3rd 0.1 0.8 2.3 2.2 0.7 0.2 0.0 6.2 3rd
4th 0.0 0.7 2.7 2.3 0.8 0.0 0.0 6.6 4th
5th 0.0 0.4 2.4 3.1 1.0 0.1 7.0 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 2.2 3.7 1.5 0.1 0.0 7.8 6th
7th 0.0 0.2 1.8 3.8 2.1 0.3 0.0 8.2 7th
8th 0.1 1.4 3.9 2.8 0.3 0.0 8.6 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 1.0 3.8 3.4 0.7 0.0 9.1 9th
10th 0.1 1.1 3.3 3.6 0.9 0.0 9.2 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 1.0 3.1 3.5 1.3 0.1 9.2 11th
12th 0.0 0.2 1.1 2.6 2.9 1.1 0.1 8.1 12th
13th 0.0 0.3 1.1 2.0 2.1 0.8 0.1 0.0 6.4 13th
14th 0.1 0.4 1.0 1.1 1.0 0.3 0.0 4.0 14th
Total 0.1 0.4 1.3 2.5 4.1 6.2 8.1 9.2 10.5 10.4 10.0 9.4 8.4 6.5 5.2 3.2 2.4 1.3 0.6 0.2 0.0 Total



Big Ten 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% 0.0    0.0
19-1 100.0% 0.2    0.2 0.0
18-2 85.0% 0.5    0.5 0.0
17-3 82.7% 1.1    0.7 0.3 0.0
16-4 56.8% 1.4    0.7 0.6 0.1 0.0
15-5 28.7% 0.9    0.3 0.4 0.2 0.0
14-6 7.9% 0.4    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
13-7 0.8% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 4.5% 4.5 2.5 1.4 0.5 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 0.0% 100.0% 23.9% 76.1% 1.0 0.0 100.0%
19-1 0.2% 100.0% 47.0% 53.0% 1.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
18-2 0.6% 100.0% 35.0% 65.0% 1.4 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-3 1.3% 100.0% 24.9% 75.1% 1.7 0.5 0.6 0.1 0.0 100.0%
16-4 2.4% 100.0% 22.1% 77.9% 2.2 0.7 0.9 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-5 3.2% 100.0% 17.0% 83.0% 3.1 0.2 0.7 1.2 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-6 5.2% 100.0% 15.3% 84.7% 4.0 0.1 0.6 1.3 1.4 1.1 0.4 0.2 0.0 100.0%
13-7 6.5% 99.5% 7.9% 91.6% 5.3 0.0 0.1 0.8 1.2 1.6 1.3 1.0 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.4%
12-8 8.4% 98.7% 5.6% 93.1% 6.6 0.0 0.2 0.6 1.3 2.0 1.9 1.1 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 98.6%
11-9 9.4% 91.6% 3.1% 88.5% 8.1 0.1 0.1 0.5 1.1 1.6 1.8 1.4 1.0 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.8 91.4%
10-10 10.0% 71.0% 1.8% 69.2% 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.6 1.0 1.0 1.5 1.3 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 2.9 70.4%
9-11 10.4% 30.3% 1.3% 29.0% 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.8 1.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 7.3 29.4%
8-12 10.5% 6.7% 0.5% 6.2% 12.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 9.8 6.2%
7-13 9.2% 1.0% 0.5% 0.5% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.1 0.5%
6-14 8.1% 0.2% 0.2% 13.5 0.0 0.0 8.1
5-15 6.2% 6.2
4-16 4.1% 4.1
3-17 2.5% 2.5
2-18 1.3% 1.3
1-19 0.4% 0.4
0-20 0.1% 0.1
Total 100% 47.3% 4.2% 43.1% 6.6 2.1 3.1 4.3 4.3 4.9 5.4 5.4 4.5 3.4 3.1 3.0 2.8 0.8 0.2 0.1 52.7 45.0%