Season long look at UL's trek through the Baseball RPI rankings

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Originally Posted by gorcajun

_ Baseball scored more than 1/3 of the points that a potential National Championship basketball team scored. Tell me who show go back to the drawing board??????

14-13 That's averaging at least one run per inning. You're team did not average 1 point per MINUTE, including free throws. Go Figure _

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What in the world are you talking about? Basketball? Why are you even bringing up basketball? And Whose team are you talking about? If you are talking about a UL basketball team it is not 'your' team, it is 'our' team. If you are not talking about a UL team, why are you talking to a person called 'ULforLife' about a team from some other school?

Sorry, I thought I was quoting some other post. And you know who I am referring to. My BAD. Bless me Father for I have sinned......

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Originally Posted by ULforlife

_ Why don't y'all stop thinking about regionals and start thinking about the cajuns giving up 9 runs in the 5th and blowing a 6 run lead... _

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Probably the same people who were talking about the New Orleans Bowl when we were 4-2.

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Originally Posted by GoneGolfin

"If the NCAA thinks the Cajuns are a #1 seed, they have a chance (this is where facilities and bid amount will come in). The best thing the Cajuns can do is keep winning. The rest will take care of itself.

And yes, it is fun to think about. :-)"
Brian

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You're right it is. If the Cajuns earn the right to host one, it'll be a shame if they do not because of inadequate facilities.

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Originally Posted by DestinCajun

You're right it is. If the Cajuns earn the right to host one, it'll be a shame if they do not because of inadequate facilities. _

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Let's see now.... Who can we can we put the blame on for facility short comings, lack of forethougt, lack of fundraising, poor leadership in the athletic department........mmmmmmmmm, maybe Coach Robichaux, no,no that's not it......mmmmmmmm maybe Gerald Hebert, no, no that's not it either......mmmmmm Hell, I don't know, any of you out there have someone in mind?:rolleyes:

<! UL still hoping to break into national top 25 ->

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&nbsp; UL's baseball squad remained in this week's top 30 listing by one national publication, and still hasn't broken into any of the other top 25 national polls.

But the Ragin' Cajuns are listed in the top 20 in a pair of listings that are potentially much more important to their end-of-season goals.

The Cajuns are ranked 17th and 19th in two simulations of the NCAA's Ratings Percent-age Index (RPI), lists assembled by Boyd Nation on his boydsworld.com web site and by Warren Nolan on warrennolan.com.

The NCAA does not release its RPI listings until after the regular season is completed, but the RPI is used by the NCAA Baseball Committee as an aid in its at-large team selections for the NCAA Tournament.

A team's RPI is determined mathematically, using a team's won-lost record (normally 25 percent), the won-lost record of its opponents (normally 50 percent) and the won-lost record of those opponents' opponents (normally 25 percent). The categories are combined and the overall percentage is used for rankings.

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The exact percentages and other factors (home field, tie games, neutral-site games) are not made public by the NCAA, but the two pseudo-RPI listings are considered to be extremely close in its percentage applications to the NCAA's actual RPI.

The Cajuns are listed 17th with a .613 mark in the Boyd's World rankings and are ranked 19th at .604 in the Warren Nolan listings. As a point of reference, UL was listed 48th in last year's final Warren Nolan list and was 51st in the Boyd's World ranking, and the Cajuns were not selected as an at-large pick to the NCAA Tournament.

The Sun Belt is ranked 10th in the pseudo-RPI listings out of 31 conferences in both the Warren Nolan and Boyd's World listings. The Sun Belt has had a final NCAA top 10 RPI ranking in five of the last six seasons and was ranked seventh out of the 31 leagues in last year's official rankings.

UL slipped from 28th to 30th in the Collegiate Baseball magazine rankings announced Monday. The Cajuns are not ranked in either the Baseball Weekly magazine or the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll, but are effectively 28th in the latter of those polls since UL is third in the others receiving votes behind the top 25. The other polls do not list other teams receiving votes.




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Originally Posted by NewsCopy

_ <! UL still hoping to break into national top 25 -> _

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For us not to be in the top 25 is ludicrous. Manieri and Jones must have voting privileges and have been warned by their AD's to make sure we get no votes.

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Originally Posted by showdog

_ For us not to be in the top 25 is ludicrous. Manieri and Jones must have voting privileges and have been warned by their AD's to make sure we get no votes. _

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I am surprised, surprised I tell you, that pepperfan blames LSU for something. Maybe since the cajuns play in a joke of a conference, they don't get much respect when compared to schools who play in real conferences?

Checked just now and we moved up again to 15th today on boyds world. 4-0 again this week should get us back where we need to be...

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Originally Posted by ULforlife

_ Checked just now and we moved up again to 15th today on boyds world. 4-0 again this week should get us back where we need to be... _

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Well, according to a post i made yesteday in another thread, we stil have the same ratings index @ .613, its just that FSU and perhaps another school dropped below that since yesterday. I guess one or two schools in some far remote corner of the country played each other yesterday and sent shockwaves through the RPI world. Agreed though, TCB and we should move up nicely. Its good to see WKU in the top 80-90 in RPI, if we can get three quality wins against them, that definitely won't suck.