What you shouldn’t get rewarded for is coming out last place in your conference. It doesn’t matter how good of a conference you play in. And if you come out last and are in conversations for an at large bid, your RPI was boosted by your conference schedule. I dislike the value of RPI when it comes to host sites and seeding. In my opinion it’s not the “best” 16 teams that get rewarded host sites. The teams with the best schedules/conference affiliation seem to be the ones rewarded most of the time.
All those factors are inherently embedded into the RPI it doesn't need an analog view.
As far as still not hosting? Ican count to 16 and UL was 17, but you miss the point. Ole Miss should not be hosting.
Why did the other team not host? I don't know, maybe they didn't put in a bid. One year UL couldn't host because of lights. Another year they couldn't host because of the press box. Another year it was facilities.
It's always something, something Du jour.
JMU at RPI 13th, was the only top 16 RPI team not to host and ole miss took their spot as the RPI 18th team. im as certain as an outsider can be that JMU put in a bid to host. but i will give you one guess at what different about JMU and the 16 other teams that did get to host.
oh, and your correct, if RPI is going to be the go to stat for hosting, which SOS is already included, then ols miss should not be hosting. just let the top 16 host and a committee should only determine the seeding and other teams that will be placed.
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