Conference USA Updated RPI
by asalom on Jan 26, 2011 11:44 AM MST
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PrintWith just over a month left in the regular season, its time to really start considering where our teams stand in the RPI. As a whole, the conference has been in a jousting match with the Atlantic 10 for the title of 8th best conference in the land. As it stands today, Conference USA holds that title. Individually, teams have already begun to make their moves. The only problem is that some of those moves were made in the wrong direction.
Its time. Now, it's survival of the fittest. Our teams up top need to make a push, and pick up as many wins as they can. What happens to the rest, well it happens. From now on, I will go ahead and give the RPI rankings from three different sites; Realtimerpi.com, ESPN's InsideRPI, and CBS Sports RPI. That will give us multiple points of view on where our teams stand. Here are this week's Conference USA RPI rankings.
| Team | ESPN RPI | RealTimeRPI | CBS Sports RPI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis Tigers | 44 | 44 | 42 |
| UAB Blazers | 53 | 52 | 53 |
| UTEP Miners | 60 | 64 | 59 |
| Central Florida Knights | 61 | 65 | 63 |
| Marshall Thundering Herd | 77 | 75 | 75 |
| Southern Miss. Golden Eagles | 85 | 76 | 76 |
| Tulsa Golden Hurricane | 113 | 112 | 113 |
| East Carolina Pirates | 110 | 114 | 114 |
| Rice Owls | 163 | 162 | 154 |
| Houston Cougars | 181 | 180 | 178 |
| Tulane Green Wave | 218 | 220 | 218 |
| SMU Mustangs | 247 | 266 | 264 |
Two things of note here. Memphis made the best jump over the last week jumping over 30 spots from no. 77 into the low to mid 40s. While UCF took the hardest fall. They continued their skid, losing both their games last week to take it to 4 in a row. The Knights dropped over 40 spots from no. 21 into the mid 60s. Southern Miss, Marshall, Tulsa, and Houston joined the Knights in moving the wrong direction. While UTEP, ECU, Rice, Tulane, and SMU all made moves for the better.
One thing is for sure. Our conference is pretty solid from top to bottom. Its not bad to have your worst team somewhere around 250. If Tulsa and ECU can join the top 6 in the top 100, that would be huge for the conference. Eight teams in the top 100 RPI would be amazing. The only way to do it, just keep winning. This is great for the conference, and hopefully it continues to get better.
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Updated after Wednesday's games (ESPN InsideRPI)
Memphis is no. 37, UAB is 49, UTEP is 57, UCF 63, USM 77, Marshall 82, ECU 118, Tulsa 128, Rice 158, Houston 197, Tulane 207, SMU 222.
As a conference we are actually in REALLY good shape. Out worst team is at 222, and could easily make its way into the top 200. If the league finished with 3 teams in the top 50, and no teams outside the top 200, I don’t see how we don’t get 3 bids. It’d be a complete robbery.
We're nearing the top 50
CBS Sports RPI has us at no. 53 today, and ESPN has us at no. 54, Memphis is up to 36 on ESPN and 35 on CBS, UAB is 47th in both. Now is definitely not time to start losing. WE NEED to win at Tulsa….and it wouldn’t hurt if some teams on our schedule picked up some wins to improve their RPI. Michigan needs to keep winning after their win at MSU last night, Air Force needs to win some games, Pacific needs to get into the top 150, they’re around 160 right now. More than anything though we just need to keep winning….one other thing. Today ECU is 114th in ESPN’s RPI. If they make it into the top 100, all 6 in the eastern division of C-USA will be in the top 100.
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