Damn you UCLA: RPI down from 39 to 52 after the win.
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They will continue to move up throughout the year, win or lose.
Their only two wins this year over teams currently rated 331 and 336 in the RPI. That's out of 347.
They are really, really bad. I am glad we won but I sure would have liked to have taken a better punch from such a power program.
Their only two wins this year over teams currently rated 331 and 336 in the RPI. That's out of 347.
They are really, really bad. I am glad we won but I sure would have liked to have taken a better punch from such a power program.
....and every year, I realize that I don't have a clue because there is some ridiculous team with a high RPI that makes no sense.
I have been to all of our home games and I can honestly say that UCLA was as bad as nearly any of the teams we have played except for maybe Texas Pan Am. Regardless of NBA draft defections, how in the hell can a school like UCLA be that bad? They can generally pick up recruits that we would only dream of getting to Starkville.
I thought we played pretty well the whole DePaul game and the first half of the UCLA game, but I thought we played like absolute **** the second half of the UCLA game and they could still only close the lead by 3 points. And yeah, you're right, I don't care who you've lost or who got hurt, that is no excuse for UCLA to be that bad.
Exactly. Which is why RPI isn't a useful tool until you start getting to 20+ games on everyone's schedule, and even then I still think it's not the best tool out there.
USM has 4 games counting for them right now. Those NAIA games aren't even considered by the NCAA committee as a positive or negative. They're basically just like exhibitions.
I remember a few years back SMU was around the Top 10 in the RPI after about 7 or 8 games. They finished outside the Top 200. USM does have a decent basketball team this year, by CUSA standards, but they'll still be lucky to finish in the Top 100. That said, since we played and beat them, I'll be pulling for them to hang around the Top 100 so that it'll help our Top 100 record.
USM has 4 games counting for them right now. Those NAIA games aren't even considered by the NCAA committee as a positive or negative. They're basically just like exhibitions.
I remember a few years back SMU was around the Top 10 in the RPI after about 7 or 8 games. They finished outside the Top 200. USM does have a decent basketball team this year, by CUSA standards, but they'll still be lucky to finish in the Top 100. That said, since we played and beat them, I'll be pulling for them to hang around the Top 100 so that it'll help our Top 100 record.