Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="fieldystick, post: 4196937, member: 8152"] Got it for 17-19 and 21. 2017: RPI / Team / NCAA status 2 / Syracuse / In (#2 seed) 4 / Notre Dame / In (#4 seed) 5 / Penn State / In (#7 seed) 6 / Ohio State / In (#3 seed) 7 / Johns Hopkins / In (#6 seed) 8 / Denver / In (#5 seed) 9 / Duke / In 10 / North Carolina-Chapel Hill / In - apparent cut line - 12 / Rutgers / Out 14 / Army / Out 15 / Hofstra / Out 16 / Villanova / Out RPIs 1/3/11/13 were AQs. 2017 source: [URL='http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/files/rpiarchive/archive/selection%20rpi%202017.pdf']http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/files/rpiarchive/archive/selection rpi 2017.pdf[/URL] - 2018: RPI / Team / NCAA Status 1 / Maryland-College Park / In (#1 seed) 4 / Notre Dame / In (#7 seed) 5 / Duke / In (#4 seed) 6 / Yale / In (#3 seed) 8 / Denver / In 10 / Syracuse / In (#8 seed) 11 / Virginia / In 12 / Villanova / In - apparent cut line - 14 / Pennsylvania / Out 15 / Rutgers / Out 16 / Bucknell / Out 17 / Navy / Out 18 / Ohio State / Out RPIs 2/3/7/9/13 were AQs. 2018 source: [URL='http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/files/rpiarchive/archive/rpi%202018selections.pdf']http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/files/rpiarchive/archive/rpi 2018selections.pdf[/URL] - 2019: 2 / Virginia / In (#3 seed) 4 / Duke / In (#2 seed) 5 / Yale / In (#5 seed) 7 / Loyola / In (#8 seed) 8 / Johns Hopkins / In 9 / Notre Dame / In (#7 seed) 10 / Syracuse / In 11 / Maryland-College Park / In - apparent cut line - 12 / Cornell / Out 13 / Denver / Out 14 / Ohio State / Out 17 / Villanova / Out 18 / North Carolina-Chapel Hill / Out RPIs 1/3/6/15/16 were AQs. 2019 source: [URL]http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/files/rpiarchive/archive/2019selectionsrpi.pdf[/URL] - 2021: I'd remove Rutgers from this discussion because Big Ten RPIs were disconnected from the reality of the rest of D1. UMCP got the AQ and none of the other Big Ten teams were even at-large eligible, so it's really only Rutgers that skews things. 1 / North Carolina-Chapel Hill / In (#1 seed) 2 / Duke / In (#2 seed) 3 / Virginia / In (#4 seed) 4 / Notre Dame / In (#6 seed) 5 / Syracuse / In [B]9 / Army / Out[/B] 10 / Denver / In (#7 seed) [B]14 / Loyola / In[/B] 18 / Delaware / Out 19 / Navy / Out 22 / Villanova / Out ("23" / Rutgers / In) RPIs 6/7/11/13/15/16/17/20 were AQs. RPI 8 (Brown) and RPI 12 ( Marist) were small sample sizes and not at-large eligible. Many of you who followed my posts around selection Sunday last year will remember that I had Army as the last team in instead of Loyola, which is why I have them bolded above. If that had been the case, it would have been a perfect "apparent cut line" situation like 2017-19 was - again, ignoring Rutgers/Big Ten weirdness. I can't find the 2021 selection RPIs on the NCAA's website, but these are from my final 2021 bracketology post, and I'm reasonably sure that they are correct. - Overall, I'd say that your point about straight RPI being the predictor for the 8 at-large selections is true. I do not think it's a 1:1 predictor, but the correlation is extremely high. I'd say .90+ correlation range. [/QUOTE]

Verification: What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?