Preseason Rankings
College of Charleston
Colonial Athletic
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+2.3#123
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace74.2#48
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+2.1#111
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+0.2#157
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% 0.0% 0.0%
Top 4 Seed 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 19.1% 25.4% 16.5%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
Average Seed 12.7 12.2 13.0
.500 or above 84.1% 94.2% 80.0%
.500 or above in Conference 87.1% 93.0% 84.7%
Conference Champion 26.1% 35.0% 22.6%
Last Place in Conference 0.6% 0.2% 0.8%
First Four0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
First Round19.1% 25.3% 16.6%
Second Round2.5% 4.1% 1.9%
Sweet Sixteen0.5% 0.8% 0.3%
Elite Eight0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Final Four0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
Championship Game0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Liberty (Away) - 28.7% 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 36 - 57 - 8
Quad 413 - 319 - 11


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 07, 2025 97   @ Liberty L 69-75 29%    
  Nov 08, 2025 139   Florida Atlantic W 78-77 53%    
  Nov 14, 2025 311   South Carolina St. W 83-69 89%    
  Nov 17, 2025 114   Drake W 65-63 56%    
  Nov 21, 2025 173   Massachusetts W 80-77 62%    
  Nov 30, 2025 112   Belmont W 81-79 56%    
  Dec 10, 2025 106   @ South Florida L 74-79 33%    
  Dec 14, 2025 185   Charlotte W 76-69 73%    
  Dec 17, 2025 342   The Citadel W 80-63 93%    
  Dec 21, 2025 266   @ Northern Kentucky W 75-70 66%    
  Dec 29, 2025 227   Drexel W 72-63 77%    
  Dec 31, 2025 228   @ Elon W 74-71 60%    
  Jan 05, 2026 229   William & Mary W 86-77 78%    
  Jan 10, 2026 236   Hampton W 76-67 79%    
  Jan 15, 2026 131   @ Towson L 69-72 41%    
  Jan 17, 2026 288   @ Stony Brook W 75-69 70%    
  Jan 22, 2026 203   Campbell W 76-68 74%    
  Jan 24, 2026 228   Elon W 77-68 77%    
  Jan 29, 2026 178   @ Hofstra W 68-67 53%    
  Jan 31, 2026 226   @ Northeastern W 76-73 59%    
  Feb 05, 2026 351   N.C. A&T W 86-68 92%    
  Feb 09, 2026 118   UNC Wilmington W 75-72 58%    
  Feb 12, 2026 178   Hofstra W 71-64 71%    
  Feb 14, 2026 203   @ Campbell W 73-71 55%    
  Feb 19, 2026 351   @ N.C. A&T W 83-71 83%    
  Feb 21, 2026 211   Monmouth W 79-71 75%    
  Feb 26, 2026 236   @ Hampton W 73-70 61%    
  Feb 28, 2026 118   @ UNC Wilmington L 72-75 39%    
Projected Record 18 - 10 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Colonial Athletic 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 2.0 5.2 7.2 6.5 3.8 1.2 26.1 1st
2nd 0.0 0.4 2.7 5.8 5.8 2.6 0.6 0.0 18.0 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.2 2.3 5.5 4.3 1.3 0.1 0.0 13.7 3rd
4th 0.2 1.8 4.8 3.2 0.8 0.0 10.9 4th
5th 0.0 1.1 3.8 2.8 0.5 0.0 8.3 5th
6th 0.0 0.5 2.6 2.6 0.5 0.0 6.3 6th
7th 0.0 0.2 1.7 2.7 0.6 0.0 5.3 7th
8th 0.0 0.1 1.0 1.9 0.8 0.0 3.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.6 1.3 0.8 0.1 2.8 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.9 0.7 0.1 2.1 10th
11th 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.0 1.5 11th
12th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.8 12th
13th 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 13th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.3 2.2 3.4 5.1 7.5 9.1 10.9 12.4 12.9 12.3 9.9 7.1 3.8 1.2 Total



Colonial Athletic 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% 1.2    1.2
17-1 99.7% 3.8    3.6 0.2
16-2 92.0% 6.5    5.3 1.1 0.0
15-3 72.2% 7.2    4.8 2.1 0.3 0.0
14-4 42.0% 5.2    2.2 2.2 0.7 0.1
13-5 15.2% 2.0    0.5 0.8 0.6 0.1 0.0
12-6 2.6% 0.3    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
11-7 0.2% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 26.1% 26.1 17.6 6.6 1.7 0.3 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 1.2% 61.2% 56.9% 4.3% 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.5 10.0%
17-1 3.8% 51.2% 50.8% 0.4% 11.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.9 0.7 0.2 0.0 1.8 0.9%
16-2 7.1% 43.1% 43.0% 0.1% 11.9 0.0 0.0 0.8 1.6 0.5 0.1 4.0 0.1%
15-3 9.9% 35.1% 35.1% 12.4 0.3 1.6 1.2 0.3 0.0 6.5
14-4 12.3% 26.8% 26.8% 12.8 0.1 1.1 1.4 0.6 0.1 0.0 9.0
13-5 12.9% 19.7% 19.7% 13.4 0.0 0.4 1.0 0.9 0.2 0.0 10.3
12-6 12.4% 14.7% 14.7% 13.8 0.0 0.1 0.6 0.8 0.3 0.0 10.6
11-7 10.9% 10.2% 10.2% 14.4 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.0 9.7
10-8 9.1% 7.6% 7.6% 14.5 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.0 8.4
9-9 7.5% 3.3% 3.3% 16.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 7.2
8-10 5.1% 1.7% 1.7% 16.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0
7-11 3.4% 1.1% 1.1% 15.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.4
6-12 2.2% 0.6% 0.6% 16.0 0.0 2.2
5-13 1.3% 0.6% 0.6% 16.0 0.0 1.2
4-14 0.6% 0.6
3-15 0.3% 1.5% 1.5% 16.0 0.0 0.3
2-16 0.1% 0.1
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 19.1% 19.0% 0.1% 12.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 2.5 5.6 5.4 3.4 1.4 0.3 80.9 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% 6.4 2.9 11.5 8.6 17.2 14.4 17.1 8.5 5.7 5.6 8.6
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.0% 37.7% 10.7 12.6 25.2
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 100.0% 10.0 100.0