During conference tournament week, "survive and advance" is the name of the game.
IUPUI did precisely that, outlasting Oral Roberts 69-65 in the Summit League Tournament.
Now the Jaguars will play No. 1 seed Oakland for the right to advance to the NCAA Tournament.
If they pull that off, I think you have to say that was a pretty good win for K-State in Kansas City — at least, better than we thought at the time.
AP Ranking = 9
ESPN/USA Today Ranking = 9
Overall Record = 24-6
Big 12 Record = 11-5
Big 12 Seed = 2
Projected NCAA Seed = 2
RPI = 6
SOS = 5
Signature Wins (RPI 1-30) = Xavier, Texas A&M, Texas, Baylor
Quality Wins (RPI 31-100) = Dayton, IUPUI, UNLV, Alabama, Texas Tech, Missouri
Bad Losses (RPI 101 or greater) = Iowa State
- Loyola Chicago (14-16, 5-13) | RPI = 208
- Western Illinois (13-17, 6-12) | RPI = 280
- Boston University (19-12, 11-5) | RPI = 151
- Ole Miss (21-9, 9-7) | RPI = 56
- Dayton (19-11, 8-8) | RPI = 51
- IUPUI (24-9, 15-3) | RPI = 91: Win over Oral Roberts (69-65 in the Summit League Tournament)
- No. 15* FHSU (21-6)
- Washington State (16-14, 6-12) | RPI = 157
- No. 25 Xavier (23-7, 14-2) | RPI = 21
- UNLV (23-7, 11-5) | RPI = 47
- Alabama (16-14, 6-10) | RPI = 98
- UAPB (14-15, 14-4) | RPI = 197
- Cleveland State (16-17, 10-8) | RPI = 159
- South Dakota (20-9) | RPI = 224
- Missouri (22-9, 10-6) | RPI = 36
- No. 23 Texas A&M (22-8, 11-5) | RPI = 12
- Colorado (15-15, 6-10) | RPI = 103
- Texas (23-8, 9-7) | RPI = 27
- Oklahoma State (21-9, 9-7) | RPI = 28
- No. 21 Baylor (24-6, 11-5) | RPI = 8
- No. 2 Kansas (29-2, 15-1) | RPI = 1
- Nebraska (14-17, 2-14) | RPI = 155
- Iowa State (15-16, 4-12) | RPI = 113
- Oklahoma (13-17, 4-12) | RPI = 108
- Texas Tech (16-14, 4-12) | RPI = 72
*Division II Top 25
I hope ISU wins its first game. Why?
Because then maybe there RPI goes below 100 and our “bad” loss goes away.
Catbacker98 - March 9, 2010
I would say ISU can't improve much with a 1st round (hence not Top-4 in conference) victory
but it happens to be against the computer-loved Longhorns. A victory over UT just might be enough to get ISU into the sub-100 RPI range.
However, there is nothing Iowa State can do the rest of this year that would make me consider them not a bad loss. >.<
VegasCat07 - March 9, 2010
Or if CU wins again against Tech
It may be enough to boost their RPI sub-100 to give us 2 more good wins. (Even a loss to KU might help their RPI with a boost in their SOS)
mystman995 - March 9, 2010
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