UL Signee Julien leads Madison Prep to Win scoring 31 Points!

[VObserver]

Better ooc scheduling could pull us up to 10, I don't think we can do much better than that unless the conference as a whole improves. Honestly, playing home and home every year with NMSU would be a huge help to both programs.

[Balanced_view]

LOL. Not a chance. UALR only got a 12 seed a couple years ago even by winning the conference and conference tournament and having an RPI of 42. I don't think we only lose 1 more game this year but even if we do, I don't see how we got our RPI down that much. You are going to see lower level P5 teams in good conferences getting 10 seeds. Right now, I think something around 12 would be the lowest we would get and that's assuming we continue on the path we are going right now.

if we were relying on just RPI then yes 12 may have been the ceiling, but now that other factors will be weighted, there's no reason to think something like a 10 seed cant happen with a 30-4 record. not saying anything is a lock, only that the possibility may exist.

[zephyr]

if we were relying on just RPI then yes 12 may have been the ceiling, but now that other factors will be weighted, there's no reason to think something like a 10 seed cant happen with a 30-4 record. not saying anything is a lock, only that the possibility may exist.

What are the other "factors" that are going to play into the selection process, particularly for us? You are going to have a committee that likely hasn't seen us play at all so they will go by metrics for selection. They will move to BPI but many of the factors that make it up are going to be similar to RPI but will look at wins and losses a little differently, especially when key players are missing with injury. In the end, though, it will always depend on who you play and with our conference SOS being lower this year and our wins not against highly rated teams, our ceiling is only so high as far as the ratings go. Do not diminish the RPI effect though just for sake of your argument. It is the biggest single component that the committee looks at when seeding teams such as ours whom they haven't seen along with key wins and losses.

[cajun4life]

Current projections have us as a 12 Seed in the East Region playing 5 Seed Michigan. In Charlotte with ‘Nova as the 1.

[VObserver]

if we were relying on just RPI then yes 12 may have been the ceiling, but now that other factors will be weighted, there's no reason to think something like a 10 seed cant happen with a 30-4 record. not saying anything is a lock, only that the possibility may exist.

Remember who developed the BPI... The mothership didn't do that to help us. They did it to get more power conference schools in. You want better than 12? Schedule like Middle Tennessee or WKU do out of conference and win. Middle will likely be a 10 this year.