Preseason Rankings
Saint Louis
Atlantic 10
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+7.9#72
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace68.2#180
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+4.7#58
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense+3.3#84
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 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Top 2 Seed 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
Top 4 Seed 0.9% 1.0% 0.1%
Top 6 Seed 2.1% 2.3% 0.3%
NCAA Tourney Bid 19.7% 20.6% 8.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 5.5% 6.0% 1.2%
Average Seed 9.8 9.7 10.7
.500 or above 91.9% 93.4% 75.3%
.500 or above in Conference 80.6% 82.1% 63.4%
Conference Champion 19.8% 20.8% 9.0%
Last Place in Conference 1.3% 1.1% 4.3%
First Four2.2% 2.3% 0.8%
First Round18.6% 19.5% 8.3%
Second Round7.4% 7.9% 2.6%
Sweet Sixteen2.0% 2.2% 0.6%
Elite Eight0.6% 0.7% 0.2%
Final Four0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
Championship Game0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
National Champion0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Next Game: Southeast Missouri St. (Home) - 91.8% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 10 - 1
Quad 1b1 - 11 - 2
Quad 24 - 44 - 6
Quad 38 - 312 - 9
Quad 49 - 122 - 10


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 231   Southeast Missouri St. W 79-64 92%    
  Nov 06, 2025 349   Chicago St. W 84-61 98%    
  Nov 10, 2025 327   Lindenwood W 83-62 97%    
  Nov 15, 2025 80   Grand Canyon W 77-73 64%    
  Nov 21, 2025 192   Purdue Fort Wayne W 81-68 88%    
  Nov 27, 2025 105   Santa Clara W 76-73 62%    
  Dec 02, 2025 136   @ Loyola Marymount W 72-69 61%    
  Dec 07, 2025 299   Central Michigan W 80-62 95%    
  Dec 13, 2025 75   San Francisco W 74-70 62%    
  Dec 17, 2025 246   Bethune-Cookman W 81-65 91%    
  Dec 21, 2025 356   New Hampshire W 83-59 98%    
  Dec 31, 2025 111   Saint Joseph's W 75-68 73%    
  Jan 07, 2026 58   @ Virginia Commonwealth L 66-71 35%    
  Jan 10, 2026 196   @ La Salle W 76-69 72%    
  Jan 14, 2026 164   Fordham W 81-69 84%    
  Jan 17, 2026 137   Richmond W 72-63 78%    
  Jan 20, 2026 115   @ Duquesne W 69-67 55%    
  Jan 23, 2026 120   @ St. Bonaventure W 69-66 59%    
  Jan 27, 2026 85   George Washington W 75-70 65%    
  Jan 30, 2026 65   Dayton W 71-69 57%    
  Feb 03, 2026 144   @ Davidson W 72-68 64%    
  Feb 07, 2026 196   La Salle W 79-66 86%    
  Feb 13, 2026 103   @ Loyola Chicago W 71-70 50%    
  Feb 17, 2026 146   @ Rhode Island W 77-73 64%    
  Feb 20, 2026 58   Virginia Commonwealth W 69-68 54%    
  Feb 24, 2026 65   @ Dayton L 68-72 38%    
  Feb 28, 2026 115   Duquesne W 72-64 73%    
  Mar 04, 2026 103   Loyola Chicago W 73-67 69%    
  Mar 07, 2026 99   @ George Mason L 67-68 49%    
Projected Record 20 - 9 11 - 7





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Atlantic 10 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 0.4 1.8 4.3 5.6 4.6 2.2 0.9 19.8 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 3.0 5.4 4.8 1.8 0.3 0.0 15.9 2nd
3rd 0.4 3.0 5.4 3.4 1.0 0.1 13.2 3rd
4th 0.2 2.4 4.9 2.9 0.5 0.0 10.9 4th
5th 0.1 1.5 4.3 2.9 0.5 0.0 9.3 5th
6th 0.0 0.7 3.2 2.8 0.5 0.0 7.3 6th
7th 0.2 2.0 3.0 0.7 0.0 6.1 7th
8th 0.1 1.1 2.5 1.0 0.0 4.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.6 1.9 1.2 0.1 3.7 9th
10th 0.0 0.3 1.3 1.4 0.2 3.2 10th
11th 0.0 0.2 0.7 1.2 0.3 0.0 2.4 11th
12th 0.1 0.4 0.7 0.3 0.0 1.6 12th
13th 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.1 1.2 13th
14th 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.5 14th
Total 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.2 2.1 3.5 5.0 6.7 9.0 10.7 11.8 12.2 11.1 10.2 7.5 5.0 2.2 0.9 Total



Atlantic 10 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% 0.9    0.9
17-1 99.6% 2.2    2.1 0.1
16-2 93.3% 4.6    4.0 0.6 0.0
15-3 74.6% 5.6    3.8 1.6 0.1 0.0
14-4 42.7% 4.3    1.9 1.9 0.5 0.1
13-5 16.1% 1.8    0.4 0.8 0.5 0.1 0.0
12-6 3.4% 0.4    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.1% 0.0    0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 19.8% 19.8 13.2 5.1 1.2 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 0.9% 95.3% 60.2% 35.1% 4.6 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 88.1%
17-1 2.2% 84.9% 48.7% 36.1% 6.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.3 70.5%
16-2 5.0% 69.1% 41.4% 27.8% 8.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.9 0.6 0.0 1.5 47.4%
15-3 7.5% 49.0% 32.3% 16.7% 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.2 1.4 0.1 3.8 24.7%
14-4 10.2% 33.0% 26.5% 6.6% 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.8 2.1 0.2 0.0 6.8 8.9%
13-5 11.1% 22.6% 20.4% 2.2% 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.8 0.4 0.0 8.6 2.7%
12-6 12.2% 14.2% 13.7% 0.5% 11.2 0.0 0.1 1.1 0.5 0.0 0.0 10.5 0.6%
11-7 11.8% 9.1% 9.1% 11.5 0.0 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.0 10.7
10-8 10.7% 6.2% 6.2% 11.8 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0 10.1
9-9 9.0% 3.4% 3.4% 11.9 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 8.7
8-10 6.7% 1.5% 1.5% 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.6
7-11 5.0% 1.6% 1.6% 13.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.9
6-12 3.5% 0.6% 0.6% 13.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5
5-13 2.1% 0.2% 0.2% 16.0 0.0 2.1
4-14 1.2% 1.2
3-15 0.6% 0.6
2-16 0.2% 0.2
1-17 0.1% 0.1
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 19.7% 14.9% 4.7% 9.8 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.9 1.0 1.6 3.6 8.1 2.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 80.3 5.5%


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 0.3% 100.0% 3.3 11.1 19.5 22.2 23.6 18.0 5.6
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Championship 0.1% 100.0% 4.5 5.2 10.6 10.6 36.9 10.5 5.3 10.5 5.3 5.3
Win Out, Lose in Conf. Tourney Semi-Final 0.0% 91.9% 4.0 8.4 24.8 25.3 25.1 8.4