3 Years in a row????

[Guest]

Go to:

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

Start at the top and the NCAA teams are in italics and bold, and the first team not in italics and bold "left out" was ISU. If I remember right, this is the third year in a row that the first team left out as you go down the list from #1 has been an MVC team. I know it has been at least 2 of the last 3 years (Missouri State), but I think it is 3 in a row. I could not find last year's information. Maybe I am the only one who just finds this interesting...

[Da Coach]

Here is last year's. It looks like Air Force had a slightly lower RPI and didn't make the NCAA, just ahead of Missouri State and Bradley.

http://www.realtimerpi.com/2006-2007/rpi_Men.html

[MacabreMob]

According to Jerry Palm's site at collegerpi.com, during the last 10 years, the highest top 5 left out of the NCAA:

2007-08
32 Dayton
33 ISU
42 UMass
46 Creighton
48 OMiss

2006-07
30 Air Force
36 Mo St
38 Bradley
39 Drexel
41 Fla St

2005-06
21 Mo St
30 Hofstra
39 Creighton
40 Cincinnati
43 St Joe's

2004-05
39 Mia-Oh
45 Wichita St
46 Buffalo
51 Ohio St
52 Mo St (SMS)

2003-04
38 LSU
43 Utah St
48 Georgia
49 Notre Dame
50 Oklahoma

2002-03
5 Georgia*
40 UNLV
42 SH
48 Tex Tech
49 BC
52 UNC

2001-02
43 Villanova
46 Arkansas
47 So Carolina
50 Virginia
51 UNLV

2000-01
40 Miss St
43 Richmond
45 Villanova
50 Utah
51 Alabama

1999-00
34 Mo St (SMS)
36 Kent
39 Vandy
42 Villanova
46 BYU

1998-99
40 Oregon
41 TCU
43 Rutgers
46 Depaul
47 Nebraska

[georgethedog]

Thanks for straightening me out on that. There are an aweful lot of MVC teams on those lists, however.

[MacabreMob]

Thanks for straightening me out on that. There are an aweful lot of MVC teams on those lists, however.

I'm here for you GTD.



Don't you dare leave us again!

[VeveJones007]

I think there's two different ways you can look at it, and really both can be right. The first way is that the Valley is getting robbed of bids it deserves. The second is that the Valley is greatly improving as a conference, getting more and more recognition and getting many teams with high RPI's. I really like the league's future though, with players like AW, Stinnett, Josh Young, and Eldridge all either sophomores or freshman. And there's no reason to think that teams won't continue to recruit players of their caliber.

[jasonpeoria911]

How bout a list of the BCS schools with RPI's lower than that and still made the Tourney.

Jason