Columbia

2026 · descriptive season · nil-value-v3 · Team results

Roster valuesβ

Roster values for Columbia, 2026: retrospective net points per 100 possessions and, for 2025–26 only, a speculative compensation best guess. Players are listed by possession share, not by value or dollars.
Player	Possession share	Net and range	Wins above replacement and range	Speculative compensation (best guess)	Compensation 80% range
Kenny Noland	85.4%	+1.3range +0.4 to +2.2Sufficient evidence	+5.5range +4.9 to +6.0Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Blair Thompson	80.3%	-0.5range -1.7 to +0.6Sufficient evidence	+4.3range +3.6 to +4.9Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Mason Ritter	61.3%	-0.3range -1.1 to +0.4Sufficient evidence	+3.4range +3.0 to +3.8Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Miles Franklin	55.5%	+0.9range -0.3 to +2.0Sufficient evidence	+3.4range +3.0 to +3.8Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Connor Igoe	50.7%	+2.0range +0.6 to +3.3Sufficient evidence	+3.5range +3.1 to +3.9Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Gerard O'Keefe	50.6%	-0.8range -2.1 to +0.2Sufficient evidence	+2.6range +2.2 to +3.0Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Ryan Soulis	45.6%	+2.2range +1.1 to +3.3Sufficient evidence	+3.2range +2.8 to +3.5Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Hampton Sanders	35.4%	+0.4range -0.6 to +1.5Sufficient evidence	+2.1range +1.8 to +2.4Sufficient evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Richard Nweke	13.7%	+0.2range -0.5 to +1.2Limited evidence	+0.8range +0.7 to +0.9Limited evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Zine Eddine Bedri	11.9%	+0.5range -0.5 to +1.2Limited evidence	+0.7range +0.6 to +0.8Limited evidence	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Avery Brown	4.3%	Fewer than 300 on-court possessions; no value is estimated. Insufficient evidence	Not applicable	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Leland Coleman	3.8%	Fewer than 300 on-court possessions; no value is estimated. Insufficient evidence	Not applicable	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Josiah Cunningham	1.5%	Fewer than 300 on-court possessions; no value is estimated. Insufficient evidence	Not applicable	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading
Edwin Bai	0.1%	Fewer than 300 on-court possessions; no value is estimated. Insufficient evidence	Not applicable	$0 (assumed opted out)Loading	80% range $0 to $0 (assumption, not data)Loading

Ranges are the 10th to 90th percentile of whole-game resampling draws. They are not calibrated intervals. Compensation is a speculative best guess of a share of the school's own revenue-sharing budget, not observed pay.

Team pool and per-player compensation · 2025–26β

Team Pool: $0 (assumed opted out); 80% Range $0 to $0 (assumed)
Tier: Low and other; low evidence

Assumed from one unverified press article that names schools that did not opt in. Methodology

No player figures. The Team Pool is $0.

What-if calculator on the team page

School Finances · School-Reported (EADA)

Self-reported to the U.S. Department of Education. Expenses cover coaching, travel, aid and operations, not player pay.

School-reported finances, 2024-25, Columbia University in the City of New York (NCAA Division I-FCS)
Measure	School-Reported Amount	Note
Men's basketball revenue	$2,169,578	Equals expenses (budget identity)
Men's basketball expenses	$2,169,578
Athletics department expenses	$43,349,775
Athletics department revenue	$43,349,775

Coverage and exclusions

25 of 26 games passed lineup acceptance (96%). 100% of accepted on-court possessions are bound to registered players.

1 of 26 audited games did not pass lineup acceptance; per-game reasons are counted for the whole season (see methodology), not per team

Program revenueβ

EADA year 2024-25 (alternate pairing to repo season 2026; fiscal-year mapping unconfirmed) · self-reported by the school, no external review · EADA revenue is any money used to pay expensesrevenue equals expenses

Reported revenue	$2,169,578	Reported by the school; not NIL pay and not a model output.
Reported expenses	$2,169,578	Reported by the school.

EADA link: matched through an NCES IPEDS institution alias, with state and home-venue city agreeing.

No model-implied dollar range is shown (status: suppressed). The published dollar status could not be loaded; see NIL methodology for the reason.

Schedule loadβ

Counts are descriptive and associational, with neutral formatting. Consecutive away games is the only travel proxy; distance, time zones and injuries are not modeled.

Rest days before each game

Rest days	Games
First game (no rest value)	1
1 day	3
2 days	2
3 or more days	20

Rest is capped at three days. Descriptive count.

Load summary

Mean games in prior 7 days	1.2
Games with fewer rest days than the opponent	1
Longest run of consecutive away games	4

Association between rest and margin, all teams

Pooled association passes the declared test (gate S1); not causal and not specific to this team · 0.86 points of margin associated with each extra rest day, range +0.33 to +1.41

This is an association, not a causal lever, pooled across Division I and not specific to this team.

Manifest 13921361a27d · NIL methodology