Official NCAA RPI rankings

[SpiderRico]

Until we can learn to "play the game" like other coaches do, then this will continue to be the result. We can't keep scheduling sub 200 RPI teams. By simply removing those from the schedule and replacing with teams with RPIs between 75 and 125 would result in probably a 15 to 20 spot improvement.

 

[1977Hawkeye]

Until we can learn to "play the game" like other coaches do, then this will continue to be the result. We can't keep scheduling sub 200 RPI teams. By simply removing those from the schedule and replacing with teams with RPIs between 75 and 125 would result in probably a 15 to 20 spot improvement.

Agreed. Iowa has 8 OOC wins over teams with an RPI of 150+. 6 of them south of 250. Did Fran learn nothing at all from last year's RPI problems?

NCAA College Basketball RPI Rankings - ESPN

I'm not saying Iowa has to play murderer's row, but these 250+ opponents have got to disappear from our schedules. 1 or 2 of them is one thing, but 6 of them?

Ok, now go ahead and blast away at me for criticizing the coach (or whoever is agreeing to play these types of games).

 

[DodgerHawki]

Until we can learn to "play the game" like other coaches do, then this will continue to be the result. We can't keep scheduling sub 200 RPI teams. By simply removing those from the schedule and replacing with teams with RPIs between 75 and 125 would result in probably a 15 to 20 spot improvement.

Agreed. Iowa can complain all they want about it. But it's time to do something about it. If the issue is Iowa won't pay more money to bring OOC opponents in, then it's time to get more money allocated to scheduling. Iowa would be much better off in terms of RPI by playing Division II or Division III teams in the state as opposed to Abilene Christian, Maryland-Eastern Shore, Ark Pine Bluff, Farleigh Dickinson. If other teams can figure this out, then Iowa needs to as well.

 

[DodgerHawki]

No blasting here. I'm not saying that scheduling is easy or that there is some magical formula. But if other teams can figure this out, then Iowa needs to. The amount of dead weight on the non-con schedule has to disappear. It won't mean the difference this year for Iowa being left out of the tournament, but it could mean losing a couple of seed lines. That is a big deal. Hire someone who knows how to schedule and put together a OOC schedule that doesn't kill Iowa in terms of RPI.

 

[clicheusername3]

You do realize there is no human intervention to the RPI rankings right? The RPI is all about win percentages.

It's a flawed formula! That's not the real RPI that the selection committee uses! Kenpom is so much "better"! Smh, it's like being pizzed at a Toaster for not being a microwave.

 

[SpiderRico]

Agreed. Iowa has 8 OOC wins over teams with an RPI of 150+. 6 of them south of 250. Did Fran learn nothing at all from last year's RPI problems?

NCAA College Basketball RPI Rankings - ESPN

I'm not saying Iowa has to play murderer's row, but these 250+ opponents have got to disappear from our schedules. 1 or 2 of them is one thing, but 6 of them?

Ok, now go ahead and blast away at me for criticizing the coach (or whoever is agreeing to play these types of games).

These are some teams we could have scheduled that we could have handled just as easily, most likely, as the 250+ teams we scheduled:

Cleveland State - #82
Ohio - #85
Eastern Michigan - #87
Western Michigan - #95
Towson - #104
Akron - #109
Eastern Kentucky - #122
IPFW - #125
Louisiana Lafayette - #126
Sam Houston State - #136
Long Beach State - #150

Not exactly a murderer's row there and by scheduling those teams, instead of sitting 39th, we're probably sitting around #15-#20.

 

[clicheusername3]

These are some teams we could have scheduled that we could have handled just as easily, most likely, as the 250+ teams we scheduled:

Cleveland State - #82
Ohio - #85
Eastern Michigan - #87
Western Michigan - #95
Towson - #104
Akron - #109
Eastern Kentucky - #122
IPFW - #125
Louisiana Lafayette - #126
Sam Houston State - #136
Long Beach State - #150

Not exactly a murderer's row there and by scheduling those teams, instead of sitting 39th, we're probably sitting around #15-#20.

How do you know we could have scheduled those teams? It's just a teeny, tiny, little, eensty weensty bit more complicated than that I would think. It's not as easy as saying okay here's these teams let's get a conference call together and tell them when they are coming to CHA.

 

[HawkeyeMike23]

Agreed. Iowa has 8 OOC wins over teams with an RPI of 150+. 6 of them south of 250. Did Fran learn nothing at all from last year's RPI problems?

NCAA College Basketball RPI Rankings - ESPN

I'm not saying Iowa has to play murderer's row, but these 250+ opponents have got to disappear from our schedules. 1 or 2 of them is one thing, but 6 of them?

Ok, now go ahead and blast away at me for criticizing the coach (or whoever is agreeing to play these types of games).

Abilene Christian isn't a full D-1 member and don't count in our RPI ranking so they aren't hurting us. Our schedule this year was significantly better than last year. We only played one 300+ team this year, last year we played five.

 

[SpiderRico]

How do you know we could have scheduled those teams? It's just a teeny, tiny, little, eensty weensty bit more complicated than that I would think. It's not as easy as saying okay here's these teams let's get a conference call together and tell them when they are coming to CHA.

I was using actual teams to give an example that we can schedule crappy teams that are in the range of #75 to #150 in the RPI. Obviously I understand that scheduling those teams, specifically, can be difficult based on who has what open dates, etc. But there are a crap ton more teams like those that we can schedule rather than the #250+ teams we keep scheduling.

 

[WindsorHawk]

How do you know we could have scheduled those teams? It's just a teeny, tiny, little, eensty weensty bit more complicated than that I would think. It's not as easy as saying okay here's these teams let's get a conference call together and tell them when they are coming to CHA.

This.

 

[SpiderRico]

I was using actual teams to give an example that we can schedule crappy teams that are in the range of #75 to #150 in the RPI. Obviously I understand that scheduling those teams, specifically, can be difficult based on who has what open dates, etc. But there are a crap ton more teams like those that we can schedule rather than the #250+ teams we keep scheduling.

This.

 

[WindsorHawk]

Agreed. Iowa has 8 OOC wins over teams with an RPI of 150+. 6 of them south of 250. Did Fran learn nothing at all from last year's RPI problems?

NCAA College Basketball RPI Rankings - ESPN

I'm not saying Iowa has to play murderer's row, but these 250+ opponents have got to disappear from our schedules. 1 or 2 of them is one thing, but 6 of them?

Ok, now go ahead and blast away at me for criticizing the coach (or whoever is agreeing to play these types of games).

I'm not going to blast away. However, I will point out that Iowa made a conscious decision to get out of the Great Alaska Shootout in favor of the Battle for Atlantis. This helped our RPI and was a very good decision. If we're going to be critical then let's also recognize a good scheduling decision.

 

[WindsorHawk]

This.

Really? You just made stuff up and think that proves a point. Iowa may have contacted every school on that list and 50 others. You don't know. I don't know. I do know we made the move from Alaska to Atlantis.

 

[PCHawk]

These are some teams we could have scheduled that we could have handled just as easily, most likely, as the 250+ teams we scheduled:

Cleveland State - #82
Ohio - #85
Eastern Michigan - #87
Western Michigan - #95
Towson - #104
Akron - #109
Eastern Kentucky - #122
IPFW - #125
Louisiana Lafayette - #126
Sam Houston State - #136
Long Beach State - #150

Not exactly a murderer's row there and by scheduling those teams, instead of sitting 39th, we're probably sitting around #15-#20.

If we would have won a couple of the games we gave away at the end, our RPI would be around that range too. Our non conference schedule maybe changed our seeding from a 5 to a 6 but I'm not sure it even did that. Our seeding is going to be based more on our record than it is our RPI.

 

[HawkeyeMHA]

We will end up a 6 seed if we beat Illinois and win 1 in the BTT...so who really cares. Hearing Iowa called on Selection Sunday will force me to crack a beer and possibly make me cry..this has been a long time coming. RPI can suck a fat one

You suck a fat one

 

[HawkeyeMHA]

These are some teams we could have scheduled that we could have handled just as easily, most likely, as the 250+ teams we scheduled:

Cleveland State - #82
Ohio - #85
Eastern Michigan - #87
Western Michigan - #95
Towson - #104
Akron - #109
Eastern Kentucky - #122
IPFW - #125
Louisiana Lafayette - #126
Sam Houston State - #136
Long Beach State - #150

Not exactly a murderer's row there and by scheduling those teams, instead of sitting 39th, we're probably sitting around #15-#20.

Good point, so you don't have to suck a fat one