re: this team has lost 4 out of the 5 games against top competition

Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:36 am to geauxpurple

Posted by Mayhawman

Somewhere in the middle of SEC West

Member since Dec 2009

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Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:36 am to geauxpurple

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Top completion? UNO is top completion now? We lost twice to a glorified high school team. He should be embarrassed.

It's midweek games and UNO RPI is actually higher than 4 or 5 of our SEC foes so you can take the bag off your head for now.

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Posted by lovemytigers1

far away land

Member since Aug 2014

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Posted on 3/16/17 at 10:14 am to Mayhawman

these loses to mid week games is going to come back and bite PM in the arse at end of season, too many loses adding up, maybe the game has passed PM up, need a new beginning for LSU, what's the chances of LSU hosting a super regional or even a regional at the rate PM is losing

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Posted by Nuts4LSU

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Member since Oct 2003

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Posted on 3/16/17 at 10:46 am to Mayhawman

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It's midweek games and UNO RPI is actually higher than 4 or 5 of our SEC foes

Through games of March 14th, i.e. before last night's game, here is where UNO stood in RPI ranking, relative to the SEC:

#9 LSU
#14 Tennessee
#15 Ole Miss
#21 South Carolina
#32 Missouri
#38 Florida
#45 Vanderbilt
#60 Arkansas
#75 Kentucky
#88 Texas A&M
#112 Mississippi State
#117 Auburn
#133 New Orleans
#190 Georgia
#215 Alabama

Now, my opinion is that RPI rankings are ridiculous, especially early in the season, but if you are going to rely on them, as you did, then UNO does not rank ahead of 4 or 5 of our SEC foes. If they were added to the SEC, making it 15 teams, their RPI ranking is 13th out of 15.

ETA: For some odd reason, ncaa.com, which is where these RPI rankings come from, is one of those quirky sources that count the midweek exhibition practice scrimmages in the teams' overall records.