Preseason Rankings
Colgate
Patriot League
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating-3.2#216
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace67.4#202
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense-1.3#212
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-2.0#237
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 23.2% 39.3% 22.9%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Average Seed 16.1 13.7 14.9
.500 or above 64.5% 91.7% 64.0%
.500 or above in Conference 84.5% 97.3% 84.3%
Conference Champion 31.2% 53.7% 30.8%
Last Place in Conference 1.9% 0.0% 2.0%
First Four5.3% 3.6% 5.3%
First Round22.6% 39.3% 22.3%
Second Round0.8% 3.6% 0.7%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 1.1% 0.1%
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: Michigan St. (Away) - 1.8% chance of victory

Projected Seeding 16 seed  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 30 - 3
Quad 1b0 - 00 - 3
Quad 20 - 10 - 4
Quad 32 - 42 - 7
Quad 415 - 717 - 14


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 03, 2025 21   @ Michigan St. L 59-81 2%    
  Nov 07, 2025 226   Northeastern W 72-69 62%    
  Nov 11, 2025 227   Drexel W 66-63 62%    
  Nov 14, 2025 15   @ Illinois L 65-89 2%    
  Nov 17, 2025 222   @ Siena L 69-72 41%    
  Nov 20, 2025 160   @ Cornell L 75-81 30%    
  Nov 28, 2025 302   Albany W 74-69 66%    
  Nov 30, 2025 164   Fordham L 73-76 41%    
  Dec 10, 2025 120   @ St. Bonaventure L 62-71 23%    
  Dec 21, 2025 5   @ Florida L 61-88 1%    
  Dec 28, 2025 172   Harvard W 69-68 53%    
  Dec 31, 2025 308   @ Lafayette W 69-67 56%    
  Jan 03, 2026 353   @ Army W 74-68 70%    
  Jan 07, 2026 303   American W 70-62 75%    
  Jan 10, 2026 306   Lehigh W 74-66 75%    
  Jan 14, 2026 317   @ Loyola Maryland W 71-68 58%    
  Jan 17, 2026 287   Bucknell W 74-67 72%    
  Jan 21, 2026 303   @ American W 67-65 56%    
  Jan 24, 2026 277   Boston University W 68-62 69%    
  Jan 28, 2026 352   Holy Cross W 76-64 84%    
  Jan 31, 2026 306   @ Lehigh W 71-69 57%    
  Feb 04, 2026 353   Army W 77-65 84%    
  Feb 07, 2026 287   @ Bucknell W 71-70 52%    
  Feb 11, 2026 352   @ Holy Cross W 73-67 70%    
  Feb 14, 2026 224   Navy W 72-69 60%    
  Feb 16, 2026 277   @ Boston University W 66-65 50%    
  Feb 21, 2026 317   Loyola Maryland W 74-65 76%    
  Feb 25, 2026 308   Lafayette W 72-64 74%    
  Feb 28, 2026 224   @ Navy L 69-72 41%    
Projected Record 16 - 13 12 - 6





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected Patriot League 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 0.1 1.2 3.8 6.7 7.8 6.7 3.7 1.3 31.2 1st
2nd 0.2 1.7 5.3 6.7 4.4 1.5 0.2 20.0 2nd
3rd 0.2 1.9 5.0 4.6 1.8 0.3 0.0 13.7 3rd
4th 0.1 1.6 4.3 3.3 0.9 0.1 10.2 4th
5th 0.1 1.2 3.5 2.6 0.6 0.0 8.1 5th
6th 0.1 0.8 2.4 2.0 0.4 0.0 5.8 6th
7th 0.1 0.7 1.9 1.5 0.3 0.0 4.5 7th
8th 0.0 0.1 0.5 1.3 1.1 0.2 0.0 3.3 8th
9th 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.8 0.6 0.1 0.0 2.1 9th
10th 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.0 1.0 10th
Total 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.9 1.7 2.8 4.0 5.5 7.7 9.3 10.7 11.9 12.3 11.4 9.3 6.9 3.7 1.3 Total



Patriot League 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% 1.3    1.3
17-1 100.0% 3.7    3.7 0.0
16-2 97.0% 6.7    6.0 0.7 0.0
15-3 84.0% 7.8    6.1 1.7 0.1
14-4 58.8% 6.7    3.8 2.6 0.4 0.0
13-5 30.5% 3.8    1.4 1.6 0.7 0.1 0.0
12-6 9.8% 1.2    0.2 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0
11-7 1.3% 0.1    0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 31.2% 31.2 22.4 7.1 1.6 0.2 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 1.3% 66.9% 66.9% 12.7 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.4
17-1 3.7% 56.5% 56.5% 13.4 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.7 0.2 0.0 1.6
16-2 6.9% 50.2% 50.2% 14.2 0.2 0.8 1.4 0.9 0.2 3.4
15-3 9.3% 42.0% 42.0% 15.3 0.1 0.5 1.2 1.7 0.6 5.4
14-4 11.4% 32.3% 32.3% 16.5 0.0 0.2 0.9 1.6 1.3 7.7
13-5 12.3% 25.7% 25.7% 17.7 0.1 0.4 1.3 1.9 9.1
12-6 11.9% 19.0% 19.0% 18.5 0.0 0.1 0.8 1.8 9.7
11-7 10.7% 16.4% 16.4% 17.9 0.0 0.4 1.5 8.9
10-8 9.3% 10.7% 10.7% 17.7 0.1 1.0 8.3
9-9 7.7% 6.8% 6.8% 17.1 0.0 0.5 7.2
8-10 5.5% 4.2% 4.2% 16.3 0.2 5.3
7-11 4.0% 3.1% 3.1% 17.0 0.1 3.9
6-12 2.8% 1.6% 1.6% 16.0 0.0 2.7
5-13 1.7% 2.0% 2.0% 16.0 0.0 1.6
4-14 0.9% 1.8% 1.8% 16.0 0.0 0.9
3-15 0.4% 0.4
2-16 0.2% 0.2
1-17 0.0% 0.0
0-18 0.0% 0.0
Total 100% 23.2% 23.2% 0.0% 16.1 0.0 0.1 1.0 2.7 4.9 7.1 9.3 76.8 0.0%


Optimistic / Pessimistic Scenarios

ChanceTourney
Bid
Avg
Seed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Lose Out 0.0%