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[QUOTE="moqui, post: 205700, member: 214"]
everyone here should be sophisticated enough to know that there is a lot more that goes into your RPI than the results of your own game. Your opponents and your opponents' opponents matter, too.
 
I don't know about Kentucky, but I do know that several of Syracuse's most highly ranked opponents suffered very bad losses this weekend. Florida (also a Kentucky opponent, so should be a wash) lost to Georgia; NC State lost to Clemson; Seton Hall lost to Rutgers; Notre Dame lost to St. John's. Those were all sub-100 ranked opponents and they have a ripple effect through the RPI. But the worst was Stanford, which had climbed back into the RPI top 100 (and into KenPom's top 50) only to lose to a terrible Utah team which is ranked in the lower regions of the 200s.
 
Again, I don't know about Kentucky, but this was not a strong weekend for former Syracuse opponents.  When you are talking about differences measured in hundredths or thousandths of points, those things can have a big impact.
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