Preseason Rankings
Minnesota
Big Ten
2024-25
Overall
Predictive Rating+7.5#76
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace66.7#236
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+4.3#67
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+3.2#86
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
#1 Seed 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 0.8% 0.9% 0.1%
Top 4 Seed 3.0% 3.2% 0.4%
Top 6 Seed 6.5% 7.0% 1.4%
NCAA Tourney Bid 24.4% 26.1% 8.7%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 23.3% 24.8% 8.4%
Average Seed 8.0 7.9 8.7
.500 or above 62.7% 65.8% 33.0%
.500 or above in Conference 30.8% 32.5% 14.5%
Conference Champion 1.8% 1.9% 0.4%
Last Place in Conference 17.1% 15.8% 29.1%
First Four3.7% 3.9% 1.8%
First Round22.5% 24.0% 7.7%
Second Round12.2% 13.1% 3.5%
Sweet Sixteen4.3% 4.7% 0.8%
Elite Eight1.7% 1.8% 0.2%
Final Four0.7% 0.7% 0.1%
Championship Game0.2% 0.3% 0.0%
National Champion0.1% 0.1% 0.0%

Next Game: Oral Roberts (Home) - 90.5% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 51 - 5
Quad 1b2 - 43 - 9
Quad 24 - 47 - 13
Quad 33 - 110 - 14
Quad 47 - 017 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 06, 2024 225   Oral Roberts W 79-65 91%    
  Nov 09, 2024 302   Nebraska Omaha W 80-62 95%    
  Nov 13, 2024 86   North Texas W 65-61 63%    
  Nov 16, 2024 113   Yale W 71-64 74%    
  Nov 19, 2024 213   Cleveland St. W 77-64 88%    
  Nov 25, 2024 277   Central Michigan W 75-59 92%    
  Nov 28, 2024 105   Wichita St. W 73-70 60%    
  Dec 01, 2024 298   Bethune-Cookman W 81-64 94%    
  Dec 04, 2024 24   Michigan St. L 67-69 43%    
  Dec 09, 2024 20   @ Indiana L 68-76 24%    
  Dec 21, 2024 347   Fairleigh Dickinson W 87-65 97%    
  Dec 29, 2024 320   Morgan St. W 84-65 95%    
  Jan 02, 2025 12   Purdue L 69-74 34%    
  Jan 06, 2025 31   Ohio St. L 70-71 46%    
  Jan 10, 2025 44   @ Wisconsin L 66-72 31%    
  Jan 13, 2025 38   @ Maryland L 63-70 29%    
  Jan 16, 2025 30   Michigan L 71-72 46%    
  Jan 21, 2025 45   @ Iowa L 76-82 31%    
  Jan 25, 2025 34   Oregon L 71-72 48%    
  Jan 28, 2025 24   @ Michigan St. L 64-72 26%    
  Feb 01, 2025 62   Washington W 76-74 56%    
  Feb 04, 2025 67   @ Penn St. L 71-75 37%    
  Feb 08, 2025 22   Illinois L 74-76 43%    
  Feb 15, 2025 46   @ USC L 69-75 32%    
  Feb 18, 2025 23   @ UCLA L 62-70 26%    
  Feb 22, 2025 67   Penn St. W 74-72 57%    
  Feb 25, 2025 60   Northwestern W 68-66 55%    
  Mar 01, 2025 51   @ Nebraska L 70-75 34%    
  Mar 05, 2025 44   Wisconsin W 70-69 50%    
  Mar 09, 2025 29   @ Rutgers L 65-72 27%    
Projected Record 16 - 14 8 - 12





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 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.8 1st
2nd 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.0 2.3 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.2 1.0 1.1 0.4 0.1 0.0 2.8 3rd
4th 0.1 1.0 1.4 0.6 0.1 0.0 3.1 4th
5th 0.0 0.6 1.7 0.9 0.1 0.0 3.4 5th
6th 0.0 0.2 1.8 1.6 0.3 0.0 3.8 6th
7th 0.0 1.1 2.4 0.7 0.0 4.2 7th
8th 0.0 0.4 2.3 1.7 0.2 0.0 4.5 8th
9th 0.1 1.5 2.8 0.5 0.0 4.8 9th
10th 0.0 0.7 2.9 1.5 0.1 5.3 10th
11th 0.0 0.2 2.2 2.9 0.4 0.0 5.7 11th
12th 0.1 1.2 3.6 1.4 0.1 6.3 12th
13th 0.0 0.6 3.0 2.8 0.3 0.0 6.7 13th
14th 0.0 0.3 2.3 3.6 1.0 0.0 7.3 14th
15th 0.0 0.2 1.8 3.8 2.0 0.2 0.0 8.0 15th
16th 0.0 0.3 1.7 3.7 2.7 0.6 0.0 9.0 16th
17th 0.1 0.5 2.0 3.8 2.9 0.7 0.1 0.0 10.1 17th
18th 0.4 1.5 2.9 3.4 2.0 0.6 0.1 0.0 10.9 18th
Total 0.4 1.6 3.5 5.7 7.7 9.5 10.2 10.6 10.7 9.5 8.3 7.1 5.4 4.0 2.7 1.7 1.0 0.4 0.2 0.1 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% 0.1    0.1 0.0
18-2 97.9% 0.2    0.2 0.0
17-3 79.9% 0.3    0.2 0.1 0.0
16-4 54.9% 0.5    0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
15-5 24.6% 0.4    0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0
14-6 7.1% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
13-7 0.8% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0%
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 1.8% 1.8 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 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 0.0% 0.0
19-1 0.1% 100.0% 28.4% 71.6% 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
18-2 0.2% 100.0% 23.7% 76.3% 2.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-3 0.4% 100.0% 26.5% 73.5% 2.6 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-4 1.0% 100.0% 15.1% 84.9% 3.6 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-5 1.7% 100.0% 15.1% 84.9% 4.8 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
14-6 2.7% 99.3% 10.3% 89.0% 6.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 99.2%
13-7 4.0% 95.1% 5.8% 89.3% 7.4 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.2 94.8%
12-8 5.4% 84.6% 3.6% 80.9% 8.5 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.7 1.0 1.0 0.8 0.5 0.0 0.8 84.0%
11-9 7.1% 65.3% 1.6% 63.7% 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.8 1.1 1.2 1.1 0.1 2.4 64.7%
10-10 8.3% 42.0% 0.9% 41.1% 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.1 1.2 0.2 0.0 4.8 41.5%
9-11 9.5% 16.2% 0.5% 15.7% 10.6 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.8 0.2 0.0 8.0 15.8%
8-12 10.7% 3.9% 0.2% 3.7% 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 10.2 3.8%
7-13 10.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.6 0.3%
6-14 10.2% 0.0% 0.0% 11.0 0.0 10.2
5-15 9.5% 9.5
4-16 7.7% 7.7
3-17 5.7% 5.7
2-18 3.5% 3.5
1-19 1.6% 1.6
0-20 0.4% 0.4
Total 100% 24.4% 1.5% 22.9% 8.0 0.3 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.6 1.9 2.7 3.4 3.6 3.9 3.9 0.6 0.0 75.6 23.3%