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Message: [QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5703085, member: 10113"] Oddly enough Rutgers RPI was actually fifth before they played Princeton. Losing to Princeton hurt their RPI slightly. Going from 5th to 7th. destroying St. John’s yesterday moved their RPI from seventh all the way back to 13th, and there will be similar movement after Bellarmine. Rutgers was just basically the beneficiary of dumb luck that the middling teams they played had fairly good records against ok competition. St. John’s and Bellarmine are examples of how RPI punishes you brutally for playing weak teams. The only way Rutgers makes the tournament is to win the Big Ten, which won’t happen. Or to beat two out of three of Penn State, Maryland and Ohio State and also beat one of Michigan and Hopkins. Even at that they would be on the bubble at best. The biggest problem I have with the RPI is it appears while it rewards strength of schedule, it does not reward/punish margin of victory or winning on the road. [/QUOTE]