I’m following this very closely because if we can get up to #1 in RPI and remain #1 in KPI I don’t see any way possible that the NCAA Selection Committee can deny us a Top 8 seed, especially since our other metrics are also very good.
In that regard, not playing today may be a help, i.e., no chance for a low-RIP opponent in a midweek game to mess us up like MTSU did.
We can still earn a few very valuable RPI points from other games, however.
We can earn +5 RPI points (and pull us to within 20 of RPI #2 Auburn) if these SEC teams win today, which they should given their opponents in home games:
Ole Miss
Tennessee.
Of extreme importance would be for Auburn to lose to Jacksonville State. Jax State is a decent team that only lost to Auburn 4-3 a month ago. There coach is a former SEC coach (can’t remember his name.)
If Auburn loses the game they lose 56 RPI points, allowing us to surge way ahead of them and vault us into RPI #2.
Georgia, #1 RPI, would then only be 46 RPI points ahead of us. That could still be erased this weekend should we win more games than Georgia does.
In that regard, not playing today may be a help, i.e., no chance for a low-RIP opponent in a midweek game to mess us up like MTSU did.
We can still earn a few very valuable RPI points from other games, however.
We can earn +5 RPI points (and pull us to within 20 of RPI #2 Auburn) if these SEC teams win today, which they should given their opponents in home games:
Ole Miss
Tennessee.
Of extreme importance would be for Auburn to lose to Jacksonville State. Jax State is a decent team that only lost to Auburn 4-3 a month ago. There coach is a former SEC coach (can’t remember his name.)
If Auburn loses the game they lose 56 RPI points, allowing us to surge way ahead of them and vault us into RPI #2.
Georgia, #1 RPI, would then only be 46 RPI points ahead of us. That could still be erased this weekend should we win more games than Georgia does.
