2004-05 Ragin' Cajuns Basketball Real Time RPI

[CajunRebel]

Our RPI is at 45 right now!

How hight would our RPI have to be in order to get an at-large bid?

And is it safe to say that we are an official "bubble team" now?

[DaddyCajun]

41 now

[J-Town Cajun]

Our RPI probaley needs to be at least mid 30's. But at the time of this post our RPI is 42. There are 32 conf.'s with each conf. having an automatic bid. There are 65 slots in the tourney, so that leaves 33 spots for at large bids. Our conf. RPI ranks 13 out of 32 conf.'s, that is higher than usual, usually we rank around 16th. If we run the table and lose in the SBC finials our D1 record will be 21-8 and our RPI will probaley be in the mid 30's, so a bubble-team. Probaley.

[shof]

Agree with your thoughts. Definitely need 20 wins to even get a sniff. Realistically, SBC will only get 1 invite again this year, and that's the tournament winner. Improved RPI should help get a couple teams in the NIT. Until the conference rep starts winning a few games we will likely be stuck as 1 bid conf.
Just my 2 cents.

[Jared]

Originally posted by RaginDave
Actually that is Denton not Dallas, but it is just about 30 minutes north of north Dallas or close to an 1 hour north of downtown dallas.

I used to live in North Dallas and it was still a hike up to Denton to see the Cajuns play.

My cousin lives in Denton...but everyone in Arlington, Denton, etc. just says they live in Dallas...so I do the same. Like Metarie is to New Orleans.

[Turbine]

Originally posted by J-Town Cajun
There are 32 conf.'s with each conf. having an automatic bid. There are 65 slots in the tourney, so that leaves 33 spots for at large bids.

It seems to me. . . .

If every conference winner had an RPI rating lower than 64, virtually every at large bid would be limited teams with a top 32 RPI.

However you can effectivly lower the RPI needed 1 notch for every conference tourney winner that already has a top 64 RPI.

The question is how many conferences have top 64 RPI teams and can those teams win their conference? If the season ended to day with the Louisiana having an RPI of 42 we would need 10 or 11 RPI teams to win their league tourney. Then UL would be on the bubble.

. . . it seems to me.

[Jared]

This makes perfect sense. I think this formula would definitely be accurate to determine if we were a bubble team or not. However, there is always that UNKNOWN variable...the selection committee. Even if we win out, but lose in the conference finals, I think we would have to have a significantly higher, say 10 spots, RPI than big name teams from major confereneces to get an at large bid.

I'm only watching our RPI to see if we might be able to get a 12 seed provided we win the Sunbelt tourney.

[El Sidonio]

Even if we were in a multiple bid conf., I'd root for us to win the conf. tourney en route to the NCAA. In my opinion, no better way to get pumped for the NCAA than winning your conf. I'll also be watchin our RPI to see what kind of seed we get after we win the conf. tourney. However, I'll be the first in line to start unrealistically hoping for an at-large bid via our RPI should we not win our conf. tourney.

Geaux Cajuns!

God Bless.

[lxa656]

I hate to say this, even as big of an optomist as I am with Cajun athletics. In my opinion and this just what I think, I have no basis for this opinion, but I think the Cajun RPI has hit its peak. Even if we win out, I dont know that we will break 40 because lets face it, there are too many factors they cant control. LSU A&M needs to keep winning, I dont foresee that at all, they may get a couple of nice ones but i can see them collapsing like they did last year. And we still have another round of conference play to go and the conference will beat up on each other their RPI's arent going anywhere either. I feel the Cajuns hit a good run, but I think that is based on the performance of the other teams on their schedule, which realistically will lose more games. I hope am totally wrong with this, but this is just what I think.
GEAUX CAJUNS,
All the way to the FINAL FOUR!

[Turbine]

After 7 game win streak snapped vs Denver

RPI Rank: 47 SOS Rank: 88