Final Post-Tournament RPI 2014-2015 Season

[Just Sayin]

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-rpi

[agibson]

56th.  Not too bad.  Stayed ahead of UWGB (60).

Horizon League a rather dismal 17th.

We fell out of the coaches' poll in the post-season. Murray State kept one point/vote.  A seven-week continuous run, receiving votes in both polls, was certainly historic.  Hopefully we can best it next year!  The high water mark, by ranking, was 29th in the Coaches' and 31st in the AP.

[classof2014]

If Maryland would've made it to the Sweet 16 and had a decent showing against Kentucky that would've greatly improved our RPI, not that it matters.

This was a great season, this is the closest a Crusader team has come to knocking pulling off an upset in the tourney since 98.

This team has Top 25 potential. Looking forward to next year.

[agibson]

If Maryland would've made it to the Sweet 16 and had a decent showing against Kentucky that would've greatly improved our RPI, not that it matters.

Whether they got blown out by Kentucky, or kept it close, would have no effect on our (or their) RPI.  But, a Maryland run could have had an effect.  But, I'd guess it'd be small?  _One_ of our opponents would pick up a few more wins, which would improve the 1/35th of our opponents' W-L record represented by Maryland.  And, we'd pick up a few high quality opponents for the opponents'-opponents' W-L record component.  But, still, it seems like we'd be changing only a small fraction of the overall RPI calculation.  Would it really have much effect?

Now, _our_ W-L record could have changed more significantly with a run of our own.  (And, on top of that, adding a few more quality opponents to our opponents list, with their gaudy W-L records; a few to a list of 35.)  That, it seems, could have made a noticeable difference.

[a3uge]

Hopefully next year the league doesn't have the 4th highest OOC SOS and there's more than two teams that finish above .500 outside of conference. Maybe Oakland can finish the season above .500 as well.