RPI going into B1G

[PalmettoHawkFan]

21 today, with Arkansas-Little Rock to go

should still be in top 25 RPI going into conference season. Big difference from last year.

 

[WindsorHawk]

Here's another one that will get the ISU crowd going and helps defend my position in other threads that this loss didn't hurt us. I believe we were 20 and ISU was 22 in Pomeroy last Friday. We are currently 13 and ISU is...still 22.

 

[LG210]

With this year's RPI, .500 in conference would result in NCAA tourney, though I hope we do better than .500.

 

[acgclone]

Here's another one that will get the ISU crowd going and helps defend my position in other threads that this loss didn't hurt us. I believe we were 20 and ISU was 22 in Pomeroy last Friday. We are currently 13 and ISU is...still 22.

No one cares about rankings other than when you're getting close to tourney time for seeding purposes.

There was a computer poll that had Auburn ranked 2 spots ahead of ISU yesterday. We beat them by 30 points.

Computer rankings have their shortcomings, especially early in the year.

Iowa is a good team, so no one is going to get worked up about you being a few spots ahead of us in December. No championships are given out in November or December.

This poll just tells me that Lickliter and McDoormat aren't coaching in this state any longer.

 

[1977Hawkeye]

No one cares about rankings other than when you're getting close to tourney time for seeding purposes.

There was a computer poll that had Auburn ranked 2 spots ahead of ISU yesterday. We beat them by 30 points.

Computer rankings have their shortcomings, especially early in the year.

Iowa is a good team, so no one is going to get worked up about you being two spots ahead of us in December. No championships are given out in November or December.

This poll just tells me that Lickliter and McDoormat aren't coaching in this state any longer.

Well hey, at least our programs are relevant again. It sure beats the alternative. In Iowa's case, being at 21 right now is far better than anything we've seen basically since 2006.

Todd Lackluster and Greg McDoormat.. Yep, both programs have followed a very similar arc the past decade or so.

I knew the ISU game wouldn't hurt Iowa's RPI, no matter the outcome of the game, but I'm surprised that Iowa actually went up as much as it did despite losing that game. That said, the game against Arkansas Pine Bluff is going to pull us back down a bit, but we should still be in the 20's (I would think) headed into Big Ten games. I'd have taken that in a heartbeat if offered that before the season started.

 

[Linesetter]

Neither Pomeroy or the RPI has any relevance until about mid-January. Whether good OR bad.

 

[ssckelley]

Huge difference over last year. I think Iowa was ~150 heading into conference play.

 

[PalmettoHawkFan]

Neither Pomeroy or the RPI has any relevance until about mid-January. Whether good OR bad.

not so

I think it would be extremely difficult for a BCS conference school to land an at-large birth in the NCAA if their RPI is over 100, or certainly over 150, at the end of December, unless they go 11-7 or 12-6 in their conference (and even then, if it's a weak year for that conference, they still might end up on the outside looking in).

 

[WindsorHawk]

No one cares about rankings other than when you're getting close to tourney time for seeding purposes.

There was a computer poll that had Auburn ranked 2 spots ahead of ISU yesterday. We beat them by 30 points.

Computer rankings have their shortcomings, especially early in the year.

Iowa is a good team, so no one is going to get worked up about you being a few spots ahead of us in December. No championships are given out in November or December.

This poll just tells me that Lickliter and McDoormat aren't coaching in this state any longer.

You would be incorrect. I watched the game with my Cyclone cousin. He became quite agitated when I told him the loss would help Iowa more than the win would help ISU in Pomeroy and possibly RPI. That was the reason for my initial post. I am not sharing an opinion in this case but rather a fact...came straight from the mouth of an ISU fan.

 

[wuppup]

You would be incorrect. I watched the game with my Cyclone cousin. He became quite agitated when I told him the loss would help Iowa more than the win would help ISU in Pomeroy and possibly RPI. That was the reason for my initial post. I am not sharing an opinion in this case but rather a fact...came straight from the mouth of an ISU fan.

i get get your point, but that makes me think the system is flawed.

 

[WindsorHawk]

i get get your point, but that makes me think the system is flawed.

You will get no argument from me on the flawed rating/ranking system(s). I know they are flawed and was quite confident Iowa would get a bump in most of these flawed systems...much like many of these flawed systems shafted us last year.

 

[BryceC]

Here's another one that will get the ISU crowd going and helps defend my position in other threads that this loss didn't hurt us. I believe we were 20 and ISU was 22 in Pomeroy last Friday. We are currently 13 and ISU is...still 22.

Barely moved if at all in sagarin as well. Kenpom still heavily uses his preseason rankings in his rankings which don't account for transfers so the addition of Kane and Hogue don't really count for much yet in kenpom. Don't see any problem with the ranking in light of that.