Preseason Rankings
Illinois-Chicago
Missouri Valley
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+0.1#154
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace72.0#71
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-0.1#163
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+0.2#155
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% 0.0% 0.0%
Top 6 Seed 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 5.8% 6.2% 2.8%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Average Seed 12.5 12.4 13.1
.500 or above 49.4% 53.2% 26.0%
.500 or above in Conference 47.9% 50.5% 31.4%
Conference Champion 6.2% 6.9% 2.3%
Last Place in Conference 9.8% 8.7% 16.9%
First Four0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
First Round5.8% 6.2% 2.8%
Second Round0.7% 0.8% 0.2%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
Elite Eight0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Final Four0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Championship Game0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Detroit Mercy (Home) - 86.2% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 1
Quad 21 - 52 - 6
Quad 35 - 77 - 13
Quad 48 - 215 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 309   Detroit Mercy W 77-66 86%    
  Nov 07, 2025 113   @ Oregon St. L 67-73 28%    
  Nov 15, 2025 349   @ Chicago St. W 78-69 80%    
  Nov 20, 2025 108   High Point L 72-76 36%    
  Nov 26, 2025 207   @ Robert Morris L 73-74 50%    
  Dec 03, 2025 364   Arkansas Pine Bluff W 91-65 99%    
  Dec 07, 2025 92   @ Yale L 69-78 23%    
  Dec 13, 2025 112   @ Belmont L 75-81 29%    
  Dec 17, 2025 110   Northern Iowa L 69-70 48%    
  Dec 21, 2025 185   @ Charlotte L 70-71 46%    
  Jan 01, 2026 127   Murray St. W 70-69 54%    
  Jan 04, 2026 261   @ Valparaiso W 75-73 58%    
  Jan 07, 2026 141   Southern Illinois W 74-72 56%    
  Jan 10, 2026 109   @ Illinois St. L 69-76 28%    
  Jan 13, 2026 110   @ Northern Iowa L 66-73 29%    
  Jan 17, 2026 114   Drake L 62-63 49%    
  Jan 20, 2026 241   Evansville W 74-66 74%    
  Jan 24, 2026 107   @ Bradley L 67-74 27%    
  Jan 27, 2026 170   Indiana St. W 82-78 63%    
  Jan 31, 2026 141   @ Southern Illinois L 71-75 37%    
  Feb 03, 2026 127   @ Murray St. L 67-72 34%    
  Feb 06, 2026 112   Belmont L 77-78 48%    
  Feb 12, 2026 114   @ Drake L 59-65 31%    
  Feb 15, 2026 109   Illinois St. L 72-73 47%    
  Feb 18, 2026 241   @ Evansville W 71-69 56%    
  Feb 21, 2026 261   Valparaiso W 78-70 75%    
  Feb 24, 2026 107   Bradley L 70-71 47%    
  Mar 01, 2026 170   @ Indiana St. L 79-81 44%    
Projected Record 14 - 14 9 - 11





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Missouri Valley 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 0.8 1.5 1.6 1.2 0.6 0.2 0.1 6.2 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 1.7 2.5 1.7 0.7 0.2 0.0 7.3 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.6 2.5 3.1 1.6 0.4 0.1 8.3 3rd
4th 0.0 0.8 3.0 3.6 1.6 0.2 0.0 9.3 4th
5th 0.1 0.8 3.3 4.0 1.5 0.2 0.0 9.9 5th
6th 0.1 1.0 3.6 4.4 1.5 0.1 0.0 10.8 6th
7th 0.1 1.2 3.8 4.2 1.4 0.1 10.8 7th
8th 0.0 0.2 1.4 4.0 3.9 1.4 0.1 11.1 8th
9th 0.0 0.0 0.5 2.0 3.6 3.4 1.1 0.1 0.0 10.8 9th
10th 0.0 0.2 1.0 2.2 2.9 2.2 0.6 0.0 9.1 10th
11th 0.2 0.5 1.3 1.7 1.5 0.9 0.2 0.0 6.3 11th
Total 0.2 0.5 1.5 2.7 4.2 6.1 7.6 9.3 10.0 10.1 10.1 9.3 8.4 6.8 5.1 3.6 2.4 1.4 0.6 0.2 0.1 Total



Missouri Valley 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% 0.1    0.1
19-1 100.0% 0.2    0.2
18-2 98.0% 0.6    0.6 0.0
17-3 88.1% 1.2    1.0 0.2 0.0
16-4 66.7% 1.6    1.0 0.5 0.1 0.0
15-5 41.9% 1.5    0.7 0.6 0.2 0.0
14-6 16.5% 0.8    0.2 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0
13-7 3.1% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
12-8 0.3% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
11-9 0.0%
10-10 0.0%
Total 6.2% 6.2 3.7 1.8 0.6 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 0.1% 61.2% 44.4% 16.9% 7.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 30.3%
19-1 0.2% 55.8% 52.0% 3.8% 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 7.9%
18-2 0.6% 46.1% 42.8% 3.3% 10.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.3 5.7%
17-3 1.4% 30.6% 30.0% 0.6% 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0 1.0 0.8%
16-4 2.4% 27.3% 27.1% 0.2% 11.6 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.0 1.7 0.2%
15-5 3.6% 20.8% 20.8% 12.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.0 2.8
14-6 5.1% 17.3% 17.3% 12.4 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 4.2
13-7 6.8% 11.0% 11.0% 12.6 0.0 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 6.0
12-8 8.4% 7.7% 7.7% 12.9 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 7.7
11-9 9.3% 5.4% 5.4% 13.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 8.8
10-10 10.1% 3.7% 3.7% 14.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 9.7
9-11 10.1% 1.6% 1.6% 14.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 10.0
8-12 10.0% 0.8% 0.8% 17.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 9.9
7-13 9.3% 0.7% 0.7% 15.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.2
6-14 7.6% 0.4% 0.4% 16.0 0.0 7.5
5-15 6.1% 0.3% 0.3% 16.0 0.0 6.1
4-16 4.2% 0.1% 0.1% 16.0 0.0 4.2
3-17 2.7% 2.7
2-18 1.5% 1.5
1-19 0.5% 0.5
0-20 0.2% 0.2
Total 100% 5.8% 5.7% 0.1% 12.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 1.1 2.1 1.3 0.7 0.3 0.2 94.2 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 0.0% 100.0% 4.0 100.0
Lose Out 0.0%