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Message: [QUOTE="LaxFactor, post: 4634535, member: 7349"] These rankings matter very little. RPI is what matters for the tournament. Cuse's RPI isn't good enough right now to even sniff an at large bid. Beat UNC next week? Now we're cooking. Beat either UVA or Notre Dame, just one of them, Cuse probably has a resume good enough to get in as they have NO BAD LOSSES which are often what keep teams with solid wins out of the tournament. All of Syracuse's 5 losses are to Top 9 RPI teams, Carolina is #9 in RPI, Notre Dame is #1, Duke is #2, Maryland is #5 and Hopkins is #4. So none of those losses hurt Syracuse. They simply need two top 15 RPI wins and I think they probably get in. Princeton was #24 and Vermont #25 in RPI so those are decent. I think Syracuse is sitting at #26 at the moment. TO THE ARGUMENT ABOUT MICHIGAN, Michigan's RPI is in the area of #16th. They have quality wins over #5 Maryland and #23 Harvard (RPI-wise) with their only bad loss coming to #40 Marquette. So their rank is deserved. They are a lot like Syracuse, their only losses other than that Marquette stain are all to killers. And they beat Maryland and Harvard and Delaware, so their 3 wins are worth more than Syracuse's best wins. So their ranking is actually deserved. As for why they moved up? People lost. This was the most stressful poll vote of the season for me haha. I sat down early Monday morning and was looking at what I was submitting like, "man, I feel stupid, but what the hell am I going to do?" Many argue there are so many teams with 7 wins and fewer losses than teams like Cuse, or Michigan, or Penn, but the teams mentioned play much tougher schedules, so yes, it's possible to be .500 but still be ranked ahead of a 7 or 8 win team like Boston U or others because "those teams don't play " and at the end of the day they often have "bad losses" of teams outside of the RPI top 25. [/QUOTE]

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