Preseason Rankings
Ohio
Mid-American
2024-25
Overall
Predictive Rating+2.6#121
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.1#186
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+2.8#98
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-0.2#173
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% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 0.2% 0.5% 0.1%
NCAA Tourney Bid 22.3% 28.7% 18.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
Average Seed 13.4 12.9 13.8
.500 or above 85.5% 94.5% 80.9%
.500 or above in Conference 88.8% 93.8% 86.2%
Conference Champion 28.8% 37.3% 24.4%
Last Place in Conference 0.6% 0.2% 0.8%
First Four0.8% 0.6% 0.9%
First Round21.9% 28.5% 18.5%
Second Round3.9% 6.1% 2.8%
Sweet Sixteen1.2% 1.9% 0.8%
Elite Eight0.3% 0.4% 0.2%
Final Four0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Championship Game0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: James Madison (Away) - 34.2% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 21 - 21 - 3
Quad 35 - 46 - 7
Quad 413 - 319 - 10


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 04, 2024 107   @ James Madison L 72-76 34%    
  Nov 09, 2024 186   UNC Asheville W 78-71 73%    
  Nov 12, 2024 193   @ Illinois St. W 68-67 54%    
  Nov 15, 2024 42   @ Memphis L 72-83 16%    
  Nov 21, 2024 197   Middle Tennessee W 71-67 65%    
  Nov 30, 2024 295   Robert Morris W 78-66 87%    
  Dec 07, 2024 224   Morehead St. W 72-63 78%    
  Dec 14, 2024 194   @ Marshall W 76-75 54%    
  Dec 18, 2024 281   Austin Peay W 76-65 83%    
  Jan 04, 2025 277   @ Central Michigan W 71-66 67%    
  Jan 07, 2025 337   @ Buffalo W 79-69 82%    
  Jan 11, 2025 306   Northern Illinois W 80-67 87%    
  Jan 14, 2025 240   Ball St. W 76-67 79%    
  Jan 18, 2025 131   @ Akron L 69-71 42%    
  Jan 21, 2025 287   @ Eastern Michigan W 73-67 69%    
  Jan 25, 2025 118   Kent St. W 73-70 59%    
  Jan 28, 2025 168   Toledo W 80-74 69%    
  Feb 01, 2025 233   @ Miami (OH) W 73-70 60%    
  Feb 04, 2025 311   Western Michigan W 81-67 87%    
  Feb 11, 2025 265   @ Bowling Green W 75-70 65%    
  Feb 15, 2025 118   @ Kent St. L 70-73 40%    
  Feb 18, 2025 277   Central Michigan W 74-63 82%    
  Feb 22, 2025 131   Akron W 72-68 62%    
  Feb 25, 2025 311   @ Western Michigan W 78-70 74%    
  Mar 01, 2025 233   Miami (OH) W 76-67 78%    
  Mar 04, 2025 287   Eastern Michigan W 76-64 83%    
  Mar 07, 2025 168   @ Toledo L 76-77 50%    
Projected Record 18 - 9 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Mid-American Finish

0-18 1-17 2-16 3-15 4-14 5-13 6-12 7-11 8-10 9-9 10-8 11-7 12-6 13-5 14-4 15-3 16-2 17-1 18-0 Total
1st 0.0 0.3 1.7 5.0 7.8 7.7 4.6 1.6 28.8 1st
2nd 0.0 0.4 2.7 6.4 6.5 3.0 0.6 0.0 19.5 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.4 2.7 5.8 4.4 1.2 0.1 14.6 3rd
4th 0.0 0.2 2.2 4.9 3.0 0.6 0.0 10.9 4th
5th 0.0 0.2 1.7 3.6 2.2 0.4 0.0 8.1 5th
6th 0.0 0.1 1.0 2.8 1.9 0.3 0.0 6.1 6th
7th 0.0 0.6 2.0 1.5 0.3 0.0 4.5 7th
8th 0.0 0.0 0.4 1.3 1.2 0.3 0.0 3.1 8th
9th 0.0 0.2 0.9 0.8 0.2 0.0 2.1 9th
10th 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.0 1.4 10th
11th 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.7 11th
12th 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 12th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.9 1.9 3.0 4.6 6.4 8.5 10.6 12.2 13.1 12.6 10.8 8.3 4.7 1.6 Total



Mid-American Regular Season Championship

Record Champion Total Outright 2-Way 3-Way 4-Way 5-Way 6-Way 7-Way 8-Way
18-0 100.0% 1.6    1.6
17-1 100.0% 4.6    4.5 0.2
16-2 92.7% 7.7    6.4 1.3 0.0
15-3 72.1% 7.8    5.0 2.5 0.3
14-4 39.5% 5.0    2.0 2.3 0.6 0.0
13-5 13.2% 1.7    0.4 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.0
12-6 2.4% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
11-7 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 28.8% 28.8 19.9 7.1 1.5 0.2 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
18-0 1.6% 69.5% 66.6% 2.9% 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.5 8.7%
17-1 4.7% 55.5% 54.8% 0.7% 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.2 0.6 0.1 0.0 2.1 1.6%
16-2 8.3% 45.1% 45.1% 0.1% 12.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 1.3 1.5 0.6 0.1 4.5 0.1%
15-3 10.8% 37.5% 37.5% 13.2 0.0 0.0 0.9 1.7 1.1 0.3 0.0 6.8
14-4 12.6% 29.1% 29.1% 13.7 0.0 0.3 1.2 1.5 0.6 0.1 9.0
13-5 13.1% 20.9% 20.9% 14.2 0.1 0.5 1.0 0.9 0.2 10.4
12-6 12.2% 15.3% 15.3% 14.6 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.7 0.3 10.3
11-7 10.6% 11.9% 11.9% 15.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 0.4 9.3
10-8 8.5% 7.9% 7.9% 15.4 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 7.8
9-9 6.4% 6.0% 6.0% 15.6 0.0 0.1 0.3 6.1
8-10 4.6% 3.4% 3.4% 15.9 0.0 0.1 4.4
7-11 3.0% 1.2% 1.2% 16.0 0.0 3.0
6-12 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 16.0 0.0 1.9
5-13 0.9% 0.9
4-14 0.5% 0.5
3-15 0.2% 0.2
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 22.3% 22.2% 0.1% 13.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 1.0 4.2 5.9 5.3 3.5 1.9 77.7 0.1%


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 0.1% 100.0% 4.5 5.7 15.7 10.9 20.1 21.4 15.3 2.2 7.0 1.7
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 41.2% 8.5 11.8 14.7 14.7
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 26.1% 9.2 4.3 21.7