Loyola is 6-2 and RPI 40!

[Bradleyguy10]

Just saw that W. Carolina now has the #10 RPI. Regardless of the team's name, if you were to tell me that BU lost at home to the team ranked #10 in the RPI, there is no way I could possibly consider calling that a bad loss.

They are a much stronger team than Loyola.

This early in the year...you HAVE to look at the team name when it comes to rpi. It was a bad home loss period. Mainly because we had it for the taking and let it get away, but the bottom line is I'm convinced we are the better team when we are playing with INTENSITY, and it didn't happen. That, to me, is a bad loss.

Case and point about having to look at team name early in the season..last year Evansville was a top 10 rpi team well into the nonconference schedule................

[TheAsianSensation]

Everyone's acting like the RPI is the end-all measurement for determining how good a team is. As the NCAA selection committee has shown, a team's individual RPI (especially when the team is a mid-major) is not as valuable as you think

[ER3]

Southern Miss. has an RPI of 12.
William and Mary has an RPI of 18.
Coastal Carolina has an RPI of 43.
Loyola has an RPI of 47.

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Michigan State has an RPI of 60.
North Carolina has an RPI of 77.

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Meaningless. RPI carries no significance whatsoever at this point in the year...
Believing otherwise is just wishful thinking...hoping to find some way to build up some false value in a potential upcoming win over a Horizon League bottom-feeder.

[Tulsa Brave]

Southern Miss. has an RPI of 12.
William and Mary has an RPI of 18.
Coastal Carolina has an RPI of 43.
Loyola has an RPI of 47.

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Michigan State has an RPI of 60.
North Carolina has an RPI of 77.

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Meaningless. RPI carries no significance whatsoever at this point in the year...
Believing otherwise is just wishful thinking...hoping to find some way to build up some false value in a potential upcoming win over a Horizon League bottom-feeder.

Right on.

Green Bay will take Loyola behind the woodshed twice this year, as will Butler and a few others. If you really think Loyola is a top 50 team, I have some nice oceanfront property here in Oklahoma that I'll sell cheaply...

[BU RICK]

I'm just going to say one thing. Loyola is still the only D1 men's basketball team from the State of Illinois to ever win a NCAA Championship game and I'm proud of it.

[tornado]

Who'd have thunk this as well...

Illinois is right back and knocking on the door of the Top 25 again!

http://illinihq.com/news/mens_basketball/2009/12/14/illini_miss_top_25_cut/

btw-- UNI got 2 votes, but ISU didn't get any
ISU's RPI drops to 178

[tornado]

I'm just going to say one thing. Loyola is still the only D1 men's basketball team from the State of Illinois to ever win a NCAA Championship game and I'm proud of it.

but have any Illinois teams played in the Championship Game more than once?

[BU RICK]

but have any illinois teams played in the championship game more than once?

Bradley has. dang it, we didn't win them

[TheAsianSensation]

Who'd have thunk this as well...

Illinois is right back and knocking on the door of the Top 25 again!

http://illinihq.com/news/mens_basketball/2009/12/14/illini_miss_top_25_cut/

btw-- UNI got 2 votes, but ISU didn't get any
ISU's RPI drops to 178

More noteworthy is Missouri St up to 20 votes.

[AZ BU Fan]

Might as well get the obvious out of the way....

The BU-Loyola game is setting up to be another classic "trap game" for BU at home, coming off of a week of classes/tests, and BU looking forward to their road game vs the other ISU - Iowa State.

Given BU's penchant for playing down to the level of their opponents, and the demise of home court intimidation for BU, this game could go down to the wire.

I thought I would put out an advance excuse in case BU doesn't prevail at home against another team with a mighty RPI...

[chitown fanatic]

This is comical...Loyola is absolutely horrible...and their RPI of 40 means absolutely nothing...
They are picked to finish dead last in the Horizon League this year...
They have played one decent team thus far, and that team, K-State, beat them by 38 points...

Their RPI will be closer to 200 than 100 when all is said and done...so no, this won't be a quality win for BU, this won't help our precious SoS, it's just a game we have to win to avoid being embarrassed...

Amen to the above. I'll also add it would be nice to put a team away and keep them there for a change. Time to develop a spine boys!

[tornado]

Loyola is absolutely horrible...and their RPI of 40 means absolutely nothing.....

isn't this exactly what some people said about Western Carolina when they came into Peoria?
Now they have won at Louisville, are 10-1, and have an RPI of 14.

This doesn't mean they will end up the 14th best team at the end of the seaosn, which is how most objectors misinterpret what this is all about, but WCU is a very good team.
They have played a SOS #51 with five road games, so they are not doing it with smoke and mirrors and a SOS of 345!

[chitown fanatic]

isn't this exactly what some people said about Western Carolina when they came into Peoria?
Now they have won at Louisville, are 10-1, and have an RPI of 14.

This doesn't mean they will end up the 14th best team at the end of the seaosn, which is how most objectors misinterpret what this is all about, but WCU is a very good team.
They have played a SOS #51 with five road games, so they are not doing it with smoke and mirrors and a SOS of 345!

louisville got whacked by Charlotte by 22 the game before...they are a shell of what they were in recent years. The chuck a 3 and hope will work in Socon play so in the end, they'll have a gaudy W-L mark. As for Loyola, they have beaten no one and have zero depth returning from last year where WCU had juniors and seniors. a loss to Loyola and we might as well find some other sport to watch this winter.

[ER3]

isn't this exactly what some people said about Western Carolina when they came into Peoria?
Now they have won at Louisville, are 10-1, and have an RPI of 14.

This doesn't mean they will end up the 14th best team at the end of the seaosn, which is how most objectors misinterpret what this is all about, but WCU is a very good team.
They have played a SOS #51 with five road games, so they are not doing it with smoke and mirrors and a SOS of 345!

WCU and Loyola have nothing in common.

WCU was a decent team that returned all of their starters and are picked to win their conference.

Loyola is none of these things...they are a lousy team that has beaten no one and is picked to finish dead last in their league...

Losing to WCU at home should not have happened after being up ten in the second half of that game, but it is not a total disgrace.

Losing at home to Loyola, on the other hand, would be a total disaster, an absolute embarrassment, the worst home loss in recent memory.

[Braves4Life]

As for Loyola, they have beaten no one and have zero depth returning from last year where WCU had juniors and seniors. a loss to Loyola and we might as well find some other sport to watch this winter.

WCU and Loyola have nothing in common.

WCU was a decent team that returned all of their starters and are picked to win their conference.

Loyola is none of these things...they are a lousy team that has beaten no one and is picked to finish dead last in their league...

Losing to WCU at home should not have happened after being up ten in the second half of that game, but it is not a total disgrace.

Losing at home to Loyola, on the other hand, would be a total disaster, an absolute embarrassment, the worst home loss in recent memory.

Well said fellas! Bravo!

We MUST NOT lose to Loyola at Home! Even I will have a meltdown