Women's BB RPI 12/15

[bgsufalcon24]

Bowling Green, riding a 7-game win streak, is rising up the RPI chart. According to realtimerpi BG stands in at 126th, fifth best in the MAC, of which Kent State is tops at #47.


MAC RPI standings
47th - Kent State (7-1)
79th - Ball State (5-3)
85th - Western Michigan (2-6)
102nd - Miami (6-3)
126th - Bowling Green (7-2)
137th - Central Michigan (6-2)
148th - Ohio (3-5)
203rd - Northern Illinois (3-5)
214th - Toledo (2-6)
222nd - Akron (2-6)
230th - Buffalo (4-4)
254th - Eastern Michigan - (2-5)

http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_Women.html

FWIW, St Bonaventure, who we just crushed yesterday, stands at 71st, while our next opponent, Hartford, is 39th even though their record is just 5-5. Their schedule is nuts, they just played Louisville, they've played Duke, and they have a game vs Connecticut coming up after they play us.

[TG1996]

Miami(OH) is 102.

[bgsufalcon24]

Thanks for that TG, don't know why I couldn't catch that.

I will say this much, I have no clue why WMU is rated as highly as they are. Looking at their schedule, they've played Pittsburgh and Marquette, and they played a decent mid-major in Drake. Other than that, its been all bad teams, so I don't have any idea why their RPI is so good.

The other teams up there have earned it. It's amazing to see Kent in the top 50, they were terrible a year ago.

[BgWaRrIoR]

Well, Western is falling fast. They won't be ahead of us much longer, especially if we can beat Hartford. FWIW, our strength of schedule is 300th out of 342. Ouch!

[bgsufalcon24]

As another note of interest, Valparaiso is currently 72nd in the RPI, their record is 3-4. Temple checks in at 83rd, with a record of 5-3. So the teams we lost to weren't exactly slouches. It's too bad we didn't play some bad teams earlier and get some games in before playing Valpo and Temple because the way our ladies are playing now, the outcome very well could have been different.