Preseason Rankings
Northwestern
Big Ten
2024-25
Overall
Predictive Rating+9.0#60
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace61.7#342
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+4.7#43
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebounds--
Layups/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--
NowWin NextLose Next
#1 Overall Seed 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
#1 Seed 0.8% 0.9% 0.1%
Top 2 Seed 2.3% 2.4% 0.6%
Top 4 Seed 7.4% 7.7% 1.7%
Top 6 Seed 15.2% 15.8% 3.6%
NCAA Tourney Bid 38.0% 39.3% 15.0%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 36.4% 37.6% 14.2%
Average Seed 7.2 7.1 8.1
.500 or above 62.7% 64.4% 31.7%
.500 or above in Conference 40.6% 41.7% 20.6%
Conference Champion 3.0% 3.1% 0.5%
Last Place in Conference 11.8% 11.2% 23.5%
First Four4.1% 4.2% 3.0%
First Round35.8% 37.0% 13.7%
Second Round21.4% 22.2% 7.4%
Sweet Sixteen8.8% 9.1% 2.4%
Elite Eight3.5% 3.7% 0.8%
Final Four1.4% 1.5% 0.2%
Championship Game0.5% 0.6% 0.1%
National Champion0.2% 0.2% 0.0%

Next Game: Lehigh (Home) - 94.7% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a1 - 51 - 5
Quad 1b2 - 44 - 9
Quad 25 - 48 - 13
Quad 34 - 112 - 14
Quad 45 - 017 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 04, 2024 264   Lehigh W 78-61 95%    
  Nov 09, 2024 59   @ Dayton L 62-65 39%    
  Nov 12, 2024 203   Illinois-Chicago W 74-60 90%    
  Nov 15, 2024 326   Eastern Illinois W 76-54 98%    
  Nov 19, 2024 149   Montana St. W 74-63 84%    
  Nov 22, 2024 217   Pepperdine W 75-60 90%    
  Nov 28, 2024 72   Butler W 69-68 54%    
  Dec 03, 2024 45   @ Iowa L 73-77 35%    
  Dec 06, 2024 22   Illinois L 71-72 48%    
  Dec 15, 2024 80   Georgia Tech W 69-67 55%    
  Dec 21, 2024 122   DePaul W 73-64 79%    
  Dec 29, 2024 220   Northeastern W 73-58 90%    
  Jan 02, 2025 67   @ Penn St. L 68-70 42%    
  Jan 05, 2025 12   @ Purdue L 63-72 21%    
  Jan 12, 2025 24   Michigan St. L 64-65 48%    
  Jan 16, 2025 38   Maryland W 64-63 53%    
  Jan 19, 2025 30   @ Michigan L 65-71 31%    
  Jan 22, 2025 20   Indiana L 68-69 47%    
  Jan 26, 2025 22   @ Illinois L 68-75 29%    
  Jan 29, 2025 29   Rutgers W 65-64 51%    
  Feb 01, 2025 44   Wisconsin W 67-65 55%    
  Feb 04, 2025 46   USC W 70-68 56%    
  Feb 08, 2025 62   @ Washington L 70-73 41%    
  Feb 11, 2025 34   @ Oregon L 65-70 33%    
  Feb 16, 2025 51   Nebraska W 70-68 58%    
  Feb 20, 2025 31   @ Ohio St. L 64-70 32%    
  Feb 25, 2025 76   @ Minnesota L 66-68 45%    
  Feb 28, 2025 45   Iowa W 76-74 55%    
  Mar 03, 2025 23   UCLA L 62-63 48%    
  Mar 08, 2025 38   @ Maryland L 61-66 34%    
Projected Record 16 - 14 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 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.0 3.0 1st
2nd 0.0 0.4 1.1 1.2 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.4 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.3 1.4 1.7 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 4.1 3rd
4th 0.0 0.1 1.2 2.0 0.9 0.1 0.0 4.3 4th
5th 0.0 0.7 2.4 1.4 0.2 0.0 4.7 5th
6th 0.3 2.1 2.2 0.4 0.0 4.9 6th
7th 0.0 1.2 2.9 0.9 0.0 0.0 5.2 7th
8th 0.0 0.5 2.7 1.9 0.2 0.0 5.4 8th
9th 0.1 1.6 3.1 0.6 0.0 5.5 9th
10th 0.0 0.6 3.3 1.7 0.1 5.7 10th
11th 0.0 0.2 2.3 3.2 0.4 0.0 6.1 11th
12th 0.0 0.1 1.1 3.4 1.5 0.1 6.2 12th
13th 0.0 0.5 2.9 2.5 0.3 0.0 6.3 13th
14th 0.0 0.3 2.0 3.2 1.0 0.0 6.5 14th
15th 0.0 0.2 1.6 3.3 1.7 0.1 7.0 15th
16th 0.0 0.2 1.3 2.9 2.2 0.4 0.0 7.1 16th
17th 0.0 0.3 1.5 2.7 2.1 0.7 0.0 7.5 17th
18th 0.2 1.0 1.8 2.2 1.5 0.5 0.1 0.0 7.2 18th
Total 0.2 1.0 2.1 3.9 5.7 7.4 8.9 9.6 10.1 10.4 9.6 8.5 7.2 5.6 4.1 2.6 1.5 0.9 0.5 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 97.4% 0.1    0.1 0.0
18-2 95.0% 0.4    0.4 0.1
17-3 82.6% 0.7    0.5 0.2 0.0
16-4 54.5% 0.8    0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0
15-5 24.3% 0.6    0.2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
14-6 5.3% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
13-7 0.3% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.0% 0.0    0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 3.0% 3.0 1.6 0.9 0.3 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% 100.0% 22.7% 77.3% 1.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
19-1 0.1% 100.0% 35.4% 64.6% 1.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
18-2 0.5% 100.0% 26.7% 73.3% 1.8 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 100.0%
17-3 0.9% 100.0% 24.6% 75.4% 2.1 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
16-4 1.5% 100.0% 18.5% 81.5% 3.0 0.1 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0%
15-5 2.6% 99.9% 14.1% 85.8% 4.0 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.9%
14-6 4.1% 99.4% 11.5% 87.9% 5.1 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.8 1.0 0.8 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.4%
13-7 5.6% 97.5% 7.2% 90.2% 6.2 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.3 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 97.3%
12-8 7.2% 92.1% 3.7% 88.4% 7.5 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.1 1.3 1.3 1.1 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.6 91.8%
11-9 8.5% 78.7% 2.1% 76.7% 8.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 0.9 1.3 1.4 1.2 0.7 0.1 1.8 78.3%
10-10 9.6% 58.5% 1.1% 57.4% 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.9 1.2 1.5 1.3 0.2 4.0 58.0%
9-11 10.4% 28.5% 0.6% 27.9% 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.7 1.2 0.3 0.0 7.4 28.1%
8-12 10.1% 8.7% 0.3% 8.4% 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.0 9.2 8.4%
7-13 9.6% 1.4% 0.0% 1.3% 11.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 9.4 1.3%
6-14 8.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 12.0 0.0 0.0 8.9 0.0%
5-15 7.4% 7.4
4-16 5.7% 5.7
3-17 3.9% 3.9
2-18 2.1% 2.1
1-19 1.0% 1.0
0-20 0.2% 0.2
Total 100% 38.0% 2.5% 35.4% 7.2 0.8 1.5 2.3 2.8 3.5 4.3 4.2 4.7 4.6 4.4 4.1 0.8 0.0 62.0 36.4%