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The 12 games 'til Christmas...

jasonpeoria911 said:
Just out of curiosity, anyone know what BU's RPI was at this time last season? When conference season was starting. 68 is fairly avg but we were 1 win away from being in the top 40 so I pose it could go up a little. I think I remember it being in the mid 30's at selection time last year.

Jason
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12/24/2006
30

12/24/2005
64

... more to come ...
 
(rpi in bold)

2006-07 Highlights
12/24 30 (had beaten S Miss recently)
12/30 24 (beat E'Ville)
1/4 42 (lost at WSU)
1/13 26 (won at Indy St)
1/31 50 (lost vs CU)
2/7 50 (lost at SIU)
2/17 30 (won at VCU)
FINISHED 38

2005-06 Highlights
12/24 64 (had won at S Miss recently)
12/28 41 (beat UNI in OT)
1/11 73 (lost at home to WSU)
2/8 70 (lost at Indy St)
2/14 53 (beat SIU)
2/22 41 (won at UNI)
3/3 37 (won vs CU in MVC Trny)
3/4 28 (won vs WSU in MVC Trny)
FINISHED 33
 
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jasonpeoria911 said:
Nice job, so were about on par then with our sweet 16 season, here's to a duplicate of then LOL.

Jason
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I hope so.

But....

I think the MVC teams aren't really gonna boost us like they did in the 05-06 season... we are gonna have to do it ourselves... and that means JUST WIN.
 
jasonpeoria911 said:
Nice job, so were about on par then with our sweet 16 season, here's to a duplicate of then LOL.

Jason
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Like MM said, we won't have all the top 50 opponents this year in-conference to boost the RPI like we had in '05-'06, which is kind of why we screwed ourselves as far as the non-con goes. But, I expect us to win more conference games than we did in '05-'06, which could offset that a bit. As always, it comes down to the conference season. If we can get DR back to full strength (and hopefully get some newcomers to step up), we are the best team in this league. The league is where you prove it, nowhere else.
 
If anyone believes this team can duplicate what out sweet 16 team did then you are clueless as we have no center that is capable of scoring and blocking shots like Patrick could; also I think everyone is disappointed by our play as most of us kept hearing how good a lot of these players were and so far that has not been the case as Wilson is the only Juco that has been fairly consistent and Maniscalco has played good for a freshman; Collins, Egolf, Cole-Scott and Austin have not gotten better after several games so it does not look good to most of us that this team is going to contend for a title like we thought they would; I agree that we play soft at times and do not finish like we should in the paint, finally it does not do us any good to have all this size when we play 3 to 4 guards at the same time and try to get by with Wilson at the 4 (who is a 3) and Salley at center (who is a 4) ; this makes it easier for opposing teams to defend the 3 point shots as we have no inside game.
 
Non-con of POB's freshman season (04-05), BU started an impressive-looking 7-1.
(Before falling apart in the conference 6-13)
Then you look at the RPI of those teams. This year's team could of done that well against such a weak schedule:

Date Opponent Opp. RPI Rk Results
11-19 SE Missouri St. 11-14 (10-8 ) 178 77-73 W
11-23 Loyola (IL) 12-17 (10-9) 219 64-62 W
11-27 at Bowling Green 17-11 (11-9) 85 65-81 L
12-01 at Northern Illinois 11-17 (7-12) 211 76-74 W
12-04 DePaul 20-11 (11-7) 72 63-53 W
12-07 Butler 11-15 (7-10) 243 75-66 W
12-18 Pepperdine 16-14 (7-9) 126 76-58 W
12-21 Samford 13-13 (10-7) 177 79-59 W
 
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