Preseason Rankings
Tulsa
American Athletic
2025-26
Overall
Predictive Rating+0.4#149
Expected Predictive Rating+0.0#1
Pace65.7#244
Improvement--

Offense
Total Offense+0.8#140
First Shot--
After Offensive Rebound--
Layup/Dunks--
2 Pt Jumpshots--
3 Pt Jumpshots--
Freethrows--
Improvement--

Defense
Total Defense-0.4#178
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% 0.1% 0.0%
NCAA Tourney Bid 3.2% 4.5% 2.0%
At-Large Bid if not Auto Qualifier 0.2% 0.3% 0.0%
Average Seed 11.9 11.6 12.3
.500 or above 48.2% 61.3% 35.8%
.500 or above in Conference 40.5% 48.9% 32.5%
Conference Champion 3.8% 5.4% 2.2%
Last Place in Conference 12.8% 9.0% 16.4%
First Four0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
First Round3.2% 4.4% 2.0%
Second Round0.5% 0.8% 0.2%
Sweet Sixteen0.1% 0.1% 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: Rhode Island (Neutral) - 48.6% chance of victory

Projected Seeding Not in Tournament  

Projected Record by Quad
QuadProjectedProjected Cumulative
Quad 1a0 - 00 - 0
Quad 1b0 - 10 - 2
Quad 21 - 52 - 7
Quad 36 - 77 - 13
Quad 47 - 215 - 15


Date Opponent Result/Prediction Record Conf Rating Offense Defense
  Nov 07, 2025 146   Rhode Island L 73-74 49%    
  Nov 12, 2025 310   @ Oral Roberts W 75-69 70%    
  Nov 17, 2025 57   @ Kansas St. L 63-75 14%    
  Nov 21, 2025 276   Austin Peay W 74-64 80%    
  Nov 25, 2025 159   San Jose St. W 69-68 53%    
  Dec 06, 2025 162   Missouri St. W 67-63 64%    
  Dec 10, 2025 364   Arkansas Pine Bluff W 88-62 99%    
  Dec 13, 2025 138   New Mexico St. L 66-67 46%    
  Dec 19, 2025 156   @ Western Kentucky L 73-76 41%    
  Dec 22, 2025 321   Denver W 76-63 86%    
  Dec 31, 2025 165   Rice W 71-67 64%    
  Jan 04, 2026 89   @ North Texas L 57-65 24%    
  Jan 10, 2026 106   South Florida L 71-72 47%    
  Jan 14, 2026 185   @ Charlotte L 68-69 47%    
  Jan 18, 2026 102   @ UAB L 70-77 27%    
  Jan 21, 2026 53   Memphis L 70-77 28%    
  Jan 25, 2026 165   @ Rice L 68-70 44%    
  Jan 28, 2026 89   North Texas L 60-62 42%    
  Feb 01, 2026 122   Wichita St. W 72-71 53%    
  Feb 04, 2026 139   @ Florida Atlantic L 71-75 37%    
  Feb 08, 2026 106   @ South Florida L 68-75 28%    
  Feb 11, 2026 102   UAB L 73-74 45%    
  Feb 14, 2026 122   @ Wichita St. L 69-74 34%    
  Feb 18, 2026 185   Charlotte W 71-66 67%    
  Feb 22, 2026 167   Texas San Antonio W 76-72 64%    
  Feb 25, 2026 116   @ Tulane L 68-74 32%    
  Mar 05, 2026 158   @ East Carolina L 67-69 42%    
  Mar 08, 2026 132   Temple W 74-72 55%    
Projected Record 14 - 14 8 - 10





Numbers in tables represent percent chance of outcome occurring.




Projected American 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 0.2 0.7 1.0 1.0 0.6 0.2 0.0 3.8 1st
2nd 0.0 0.5 1.5 2.0 1.2 0.4 0.1 5.6 2nd
3rd 0.0 0.5 2.2 2.4 1.0 0.2 0.0 6.3 3rd
4th 0.0 0.4 2.4 3.0 1.1 0.1 0.0 7.1 4th
5th 0.0 0.2 2.3 3.9 1.3 0.1 0.0 7.8 5th
6th 0.1 1.7 4.1 1.9 0.2 8.0 6th
7th 0.0 1.1 4.3 2.9 0.3 8.7 7th
8th 0.0 0.7 3.6 3.8 0.7 0.0 8.8 8th
9th 0.0 0.4 3.0 4.4 1.2 0.0 9.1 9th
10th 0.0 0.5 2.3 4.2 1.9 0.1 9.0 10th
11th 0.0 0.3 2.4 4.1 2.3 0.3 0.0 9.3 11th
12th 0.0 0.6 2.2 3.5 2.1 0.4 8.8 12th
13th 0.3 1.2 2.1 2.4 1.3 0.3 0.0 7.7 13th
Total 0.3 1.3 2.7 4.9 7.7 9.2 10.5 11.3 11.5 10.5 9.1 7.2 5.3 3.8 2.4 1.4 0.7 0.2 0.0 Total



American 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% 0.0    0.0
17-1 100.0% 0.2    0.2 0.0
16-2 91.3% 0.6    0.5 0.1 0.0
15-3 73.3% 1.0    0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0
14-4 41.3% 1.0    0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0
13-5 19.0% 0.7    0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0
12-6 3.6% 0.2    0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
11-7 0.0%
10-8 0.0%
9-9 0.0%
Total 3.8% 3.8 2.1 1.2 0.4 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
18-0 0.0% 67.1% 33.7% 33.3% 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 50.3%
17-1 0.2% 42.7% 24.6% 18.1% 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 24.0%
16-2 0.7% 32.7% 26.6% 6.1% 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.4 8.4%
15-3 1.4% 28.5% 25.3% 3.2% 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.1 1.0 4.3%
14-4 2.4% 16.9% 16.6% 0.3% 11.4 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 2.0 0.4%
13-5 3.8% 14.8% 14.7% 0.1% 11.8 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0 3.2 0.1%
12-6 5.3% 10.4% 10.3% 0.1% 12.0 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 4.7 0.1%
11-7 7.2% 4.7% 4.7% 12.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 6.8
10-8 9.1% 2.9% 2.9% 12.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 8.8
9-9 10.5% 1.7% 1.7% 12.9 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 10.3
8-10 11.5% 0.6% 0.6% 14.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.4
7-11 11.3% 0.6% 0.6% 16.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.3
6-12 10.5% 0.5% 0.5% 16.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5
5-13 9.2% 0.3% 0.3% 20.0 0.0 0.0 9.2
4-14 7.7% 7.7
3-15 4.9% 4.9
2-16 2.7% 2.7
1-17 1.3% 1.3
0-18 0.3% 0.3
Total 100% 3.2% 3.1% 0.2% 11.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.0 1.2 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 96.8 0.2%