The New RPI -

[DapperDan]

The KSU loss dropped us down a little bit, but still sitting in a pretty good spot at #31 with a big week. 6 Big 12 teams currently sit ahead of us.

I posted in another thread earlier, titled "Big Week For Us - ...", that this week will tell a lot about who is ready to compete for the conference title, and who is not. A split this week looks likely, a W sweep would be fantastic, but L would obviously be detrimental to this teams chances in the Big 12 race.

 

[bocabull]

33 as of today. Not a cause for concern yet but we entered conference play this year with a worse RPI than the past 2 seasons and those years our RPI declined as we faded towards the end of the season.

Hopefully we can break that trend but Saturday was not an encouraging. Our bench is non existent.

RPI

 

[DapperDan]

My appologies, I must have been looking at it right before it updated.

 

[bocabull]

Hey Dan do you recall what our RPI was prior to the KSU game? How many spots that loss dinged us?

 

[oSuJeff97]

The Big 12 is extremely strong this year. Here's where everybody sits as of today:

2. Kansas
18. West Virginia
20. Iowa State
25. Baylor
28. Oklahoma State
30. Texas
33. Oklahoma
128. Kansas State
140. TCU
148. Texas Tech

Having 70% of the league as RPI top 50 teams (almost top 30) is insane.

Having the ENTIRE LEAGUE as plus-150 is huge. Basically there are no "bad" RPI losses to be had in the league.

Obviously Tech or TCU might sink below 150 eventually, but because they're going to be playing almost exclusively RPI top 30 teams, they won't sink that far.

I remember years ago when we would have 2 or 3 terrible teams at the bottom of the league that would have sub-250 RPIs, and so your RPI would go down after you played them no matter what; and losses to them were killers.

 

[DapperDan]

It changes so often that I do not recall what it was right before the loss, but I am almost positive that after the UT win we were around #22 or so. Can anyone remember exactly?

 

[oSuJeff97]

I don't remember exactly, but yeah I'm pretty sure OU was somewhere in the 22-25 range.

One thing that's dragging OU's RPI down a bit is that Washington and Creighton have both lost 4-5 straight. That's a massive drag on your opponents' winning percentage.

 

[DapperDan]

The Big 12 is extremely strong this year. Here's where everybody sits as of today:

2. Kansas
18. West Virginia
20. Iowa State
25. Baylor
28. Oklahoma State
30. Texas
33. Oklahoma
128. Kansas State
140. TCU
148. Texas Tech

Having 70% of the league as RPI top 50 teams (almost top 30) is insane.

Having the ENTIRE LEAGUE as plus-150 is huge. Basically there are no "bad" RPI losses to be had in the league.

Obviously Tech or TCU might sink below 150 eventually, but because they're going to be playing almost exclusively RPI top 30 teams, they won't sink that far.

I remember years ago when we would have 2 or 3 terrible teams at the bottom of the league that would have sub-250 RPIs, and so your RPI would go down after you played them no matter what; and losses to them were killers.

You are correct, Jeff. The league is as strong from top to bottom as ever, and is by far the deepest league in the country. That being said, IMO there isn't a FF team in the bunch, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see 7 teams in the tourney, with 3 or 4 making the S16. I know that I've been saying it all day, but this week is huge. Goodluck in Lawrence, the pokes have given the Jayhawks fits ever since Ford has been there. An OU win @ WVU and an OSU win @ KU would set up for an awesome Bedlam matchup in LNC!