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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2422012, member: 1969"]
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Individual RPI has meant nothing in terms of comparing teams on the bubble for as long as I can remember.  I have never once heard a committee member say this team got in/got out because of its RPI.    But usually a bad RPI, especially for a P5/P6 team, means you have some real crap in your resume.  It's the crap that is going to keep you out, and that is what committee members cite.

Now RPI is still very important because it is the factor that determines the quality of your wins which of course is one of the key metrics.  Does that make sense that they use it like that.  Not really, but it is indeed what they do.
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Individual RPI was not our downfall last year.   It was our poor OOC performance and the lack of road/neutral court wins.  They drove the bad RPI of course.  
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Another common error that people said about last year was that our out of conference schedule killed us.   What killed us was not the schedule, but that we went an awful 8-5 against such a schedule.    You can often overcome a bad schedule strength in OOC RPI, if you have a valid record against it.

We had a bad RPI in 2016 as well.  But since we won at Duke, and on a neutral court against a 3 seed in Texas A&M, it helped us a lot.
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