RPI/KenPom/BPI Thread

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Up to 19th in the latest RPI. I have to be honest, I was optimistic about the team this year, but I never thought they'd come close to cracking the RPI top 20 at any point. Outstanding results thus far.
 
UCalum08 said:
Even with a 20 point blowout we dropped a few spots in the RPI to 21. Thanks a lot Rutgers. Go away lol
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I know you're tongue in cheek here but I'm thrilled with a 21 rpi at this point. Last few years has been an uphill climb so it's nice to be in a position where we're solid early.
 
bearcat jeff said:
I know you're tongue in cheek here but I'm thrilled with a 21 rpi at this point. Last few years has been an uphill climb so it's nice to be in a position where we're solid early.
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Me too Jeff! Its actually very impressive so far. I was more just being a smart arse towards Rutgers lol.
 
UCalum08 said:
Me too Jeff! Its actually very impressive so far. I was more just being a smart arse towards Rutgers lol.
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Speaking of which, I thought Coach Jordan was dismissive of the Bearcats. “Was it their defense? We will give them credit, but when it comes down to it, we have to make things happen. We have to get it done." and “We turned them over too. I think it was even in the turnover department, 14-14. People give them credit, but why not give us credit for turning them over."...uh Eddie? You lost by 20 and went 12:00 minutes without a field goal maybe?
 
bearcat jeff said:
Speaking of which, I thought Coach Jordan was dismissive of the Bearcats. “Was it their defense? We will give them credit, but when it comes down to it, we have to make things happen. We have to get it done." and “We turned them over too. I think it was even in the turnover department, 14-14. People give them credit, but why not give us credit for turning them over."...uh Eddie? You lost by 20 and went 12:00 minutes without a field goal maybe?
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Haha I was thinking the same thing reading that today. His team got spanked in the 2nd half. It seems that most teams we play never really acknowledge UC in the post game. Where as Cronin always praises the other team regardless of the situation.
 
UCalum08 said:
Even with a 20 point blowout we dropped a few spots in the RPI to 21. Thanks a lot Rutgers. Go away lol
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It probably had more to do with North Carolina Central losing to Florida A&M and dropping nearly 30 spots to outside of the top 100.
 
bearcat jeff said:
Speaking of which, I thought Coach Jordan was dismissive of the Bearcats. “Was it their defense? We will give them credit, but when it comes down to it, we have to make things happen. We have to get it done." and “We turned them over too. I think it was even in the turnover department, 14-14. People give them credit, but why not give us credit for turning them over."...uh Eddie? You lost by 20 and went 12:00 minutes without a field goal maybe?
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Just another case of failing to take responsibility. At least Mick is big on accountability. When he yanks a player, he goes over and "coaches" him as to what he did. Hopefully the player understands and takes the critique without any animosity. That's one facet I like about Cronin.
 
Bearcat04 said:
It probably had more to do with North Carolina Central losing to Florida A&M and dropping nearly 30 spots to outside of the top 100.
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Yep, this one hurt us. NCC is a decent team, but they play in one of the 3 worst conferences in the country. Any loss they have the rest of the way is going to be a killer for them in the computers and, by association, hurt us.
 
RPI: 18
SOS: 90


RealTimeRPI projects UC to finish 26-5 (15-3) winning the AAC with losses at Louisville, at UCONN, and at SMU. I don't put much weight in computer simulations but it feels good to see.

Sidenote: It projects Xavier to finish the year at 18-13 (8-10), basically finishing the year losing 10 of 14. I doubt they will collapse like that and I'm not sure why it would project this considering how they've played so far, but I just thought it was interesting
 
Scheids21 said:
RPI: 18
SOS: 90


RealTimeRPI projects UC to finish 26-5 (15-3) winning the AAC with losses at Louisville, at UCONN, and at SMU. I don't put much weight in computer simulations but it feels good to see.

Sidenote: It projects Xavier to finish the year at 18-13 (8-10), basically finishing the year losing 10 of 14. I doubt they will collapse like that and I'm not sure why it would project this considering how they've played so far, but I just thought it was interesting
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Not sure why there is a discrepancy, but Live-RPI has Cincinnati as 23. All these dregs in the AAC have dropped UC 4 spots by winning 3 straight games since Memphis. Can't wait until UofL leaves and we get to play Tulsa and Tulane instead!!
 
Scheids21 said:
RPI: 18
SOS: 90


RealTimeRPI projects UC to finish 26-5 (15-3) winning the AAC with losses at Louisville, at UCONN, and at SMU. I don't put much weight in computer simulations but it feels good to see.

Sidenote: It projects Xavier to finish the year at 18-13 (8-10), basically finishing the year losing 10 of 14. I doubt they will collapse like that and I'm not sure why it would project this considering how they've played so far, but I just thought it was interesting
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I have no idea what they use for their simulations, but they always seem to favor home/road way too much. Early in the year they had us projected for 9-9 in the conference (7-2 home/2-7 road). Live-RPI's projections are much better, because they use Sagarin's Predictor. They have us at 25-6 (14-4). They have X at 20-10 (11-7), which seems much more reasonable. I still think we are going to finish with 4 or 5 conference losses. I just hope we can avoid a bad loss at home. That would really sink the RPI.
 
Bearcat04 said:
I have no idea what they use for their simulations, but they always seem to favor home/road way too much. Early in the year they had us projected for 9-9 in the conference (7-2 home/2-7 road). Live-RPI's projections are much better, because they use Sagarin's Predictor. They have us at 25-6 (14-4). They have X at 20-10 (11-7), which seems much more reasonable. I still think we are going to finish with 4 or 5 conference losses. I just hope we can avoid a bad loss at home. That would really sink the RPI.[e to /QUOTE]would love to run the table at home and 5-4 on the road.
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I'd be all for Xavier collapsing like that, but they looked darn good in the 2nd half tonight over Georgetown. 21-9 (12-6) sounds about right for them IMO.

As for us, I said 25-6 (14-4) earlier and I still think that's a relatively safe assumption. Finishing 9-4 with some pretty tough opponents towards the end of the year is nothing to complain about.
 
Bearcat_NTS said:
Through 1/20/2014...

RPI: 21
BPI: 23
KenPom: 22
-Adjusted O: 141
-Adjusted D: 4

AP Poll: 15
Coaches: 16
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One of those things is not like the other.

I would like to see where we rank with JJ getting 30+ with JL getting the backup minutes compared to DN.
 

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