RPI = 16

Sparlimb said:

And in the end, the 4 and 5 seeds are essentially the same seed. You play each other in round 2 either way.

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naaaaw. Much rather play a 13 than a 12. 12s are usually at large's, 13's are often just the best of the auto bids

Just made an edit to the original post. We now have an RPI of #15.


Not sure if it was the OSU win over becky or what, but we moved up a spot in the RPI last night.

Mn = 15
Purdue = 17
Maryland = 22
Becky = 27

Tiny bubbles:
MSU = 43
NW = 44
Michigan = 52

Striking distance of bubble:
Illinois (new to the bubble) = 57

oleboy41 said:

naaaaw. Much rather play a 13 than a 12. 12s are usually at large's, 13's are often just the best of the auto bids

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Agreed. Getting a little bit loosely poetic here in my analysis, BUT one can see how the relative differences of the teams stretches even farther when you bump up or down a seed.

Seed ("relative" ranking of team)
4 (13, 14, 15, or 16)
vs
13 (49, 50, 51 or 52)

5 (17, 18, 19 or 20)
vs
12 (45, 46, 47, or 48)

At worst, a 5-seed game COULD be compared to a top-20 team playing the 45th ranked team in the country.

At best, a 4-seed game COULD be compared to a top-13 team playing the 52nd ranked team.

LOOSELY...

I'll take the second matchup all day long...

Ok, RPI experts, where does this win over PSU put us in the rpi? And Michigan's win has to move them up into the Top 50, right? But does it move Purdue out of the Top 25?

And how will it affect Iowa and Maryland if Iowa wins that game? I'm guessing it will give us another Top 100 win, but one less Top 25 win?

KillmeNow said:

Ok, RPI experts, where does this win over PSU put us in the rpi? And Michigan's win has to move them up into the Top 50, right? But does it move Purdue out of the Top 25?

And how will it affect Iowa and Maryland if Iowa wins that game? I'm guessing it will give us another Top 100 win, but one less Top 25 win?

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We were at #15, but we dropped to #16 after UCLA's win last night.
The Iowa Maryland game maybe helped us because a team we beat and didn't lose to (IOWA) gained more by beating Maryland than Maryland lost (who we split against by playing twice). But it's barely any difference.


Current rankings:

Minnesota = 16 (5)
Purdue = 20 (5)
Wisconsin = 28 (6)
Maryland = 29 (6)
Michigan = 45 (9)
Michigan St = 47 (10)
Northwestern = 50 (8)

Illinois = 59
Ohio St = 73
Nebraska = 79
Penn St = 80
Indiana = 88
Rutgers = 172

Other Big 6 conference teams on the bubble and where Jerry Palm has them:
Wake Forest = 43 (in - 11)
California = 52 (in - 10)
TCU = 60 (first 4 out)
Kansas St = 69 (first 4 out)
Syracuse = 76 (in - 11)
Seton Hall = 49 (in - 10)
Vanderbilt = 48 (out - not in first four out)
Marquette = 72 (in -11)

Just for Comparison's Sake:


Minnesota
Record vs. RPI
RPI
1-50 7 - 5
51-100 6 - 2
101-200 6 - 0
201+ 3 - 0
Total top 100 games = 20

Florida (4 seed)
Record vs. RPI
RPI
1-50 5 - 6
51-100 10 - 0
101-200 4 - 0
201+ 4 - 0
Total top 100 games = 21

Baylor (3 seed)
Record vs. RPI
RPI
1-50 8 - 4
51-100 6 - 2
101-200 5 - 0
201+ 3 - 0
Total top 100 games = 20

Louisville (2 seed)
RPI
1-50 6 - 6
51-100 6 - 0
101-200 7 - 0
201+ 3 - 0
Total top 100 games = 18

North Carolina (consensus #1 seed)
Record vs. RPI
RPI
1-50 9 - 3
51-100 5 - 2
101-200 5 - 0
201+ 5 - 0
Total top 100 games = 19

earlier yesterday, BEFORE the rpi ratings for almost every team were adjusted, I did some checking, and...

ONLY SEVEN teams in the country had more Top 50 wins than Minnesota's 6. And 5 of those 7 teams had SIX BAD losses, and Baylor lost to #100 TT, so I didn't count that one.

I'm doing another check today, knowing from the above post that Minnesota now has 7 Top 50 wins. I'm also checking to see how many of each team's Top 50 wins are away from home.


So if all a person looked at was Top 50 records, and if teams had bad losses or not, Minnesota would qualify for a #2 seed. Just saying