Basketball Strength of Schedule

The problem is not who LSU is playing, the problem is how shitty they look playing them. Other teams on your list probably blow those teams out and LSU barely wins.

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Do you really think Houston is the 43rd best team in the country? Do you believe that Texas Southern is top 100?

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What does that have to do with SOS and where are you getting that number from? SOS doesn't say how good a team is it just says how good the teams you have played are doing. RPI which is a much more complicated calculation shows how strong a team is and is the major thing the NCAA Tournament committee uses to invite teams. They do consider SOS also.

All I said was a bunch of posts come down on Jones for not playing tougher OCC teams. They say it hurts us getting into the tournament even if we win those games. But yet so far we are playing tougher teams than Indiana, Michigan, etc.

By the way, Houston's rip is currently 45 which means they would probably make the tournament if they chose right now. Of course all these numbers change overtime when you play more games.

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What does that have to do with SOS and where are you getting that number from?

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Those ranks came from your link and were presumably what was used to determine your SoS.

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All I said was a bunch of posts come down on Jones for not playing tougher OCC teams.

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The teams we played were not very good and the SoS is very inaccurate until further into the season.

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Charleston?

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Assuming those are RPI numbers. Charleston is 54. LSU is 89.

LSU is about a 4 point favorite tonight. Home court! Deaf Dome!

A 152 SOS for a major conference team hoping to make the tourney is not good enough, IMO. In fact, instead of choosing teams seemingly at random to compare SOS, I went through the other SEC teams SOS thus far. We are 12th out of 14. This is weak!

Our current RPI is 90. This is not even close to making the tournament, although it is early. This does not leave much room for future losses. Our RPI is 10th out of 14 SEC teams.

The evidence does back up claims of a weak SOS. Also, because the SEC does not provide the strength of other major conferences, conference play limits opportunity to increase these numbers compared to ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, etc.

Team SOS RPI

Alabama 131 142
Arkansas 110 26
Auburn 99 58
Florida 2 4
Georgia 38 63
Kentucky 16 7
LSU 152 90
Miss. St. 269 209
Missouri 219 249
Ole Miss 18 40
South Carolina 64 19
Tenn. 141 177
Tex. A&M 36 57
Vandy 22 86

The SEC will take care of itself since we will play each of those schools and if we don't do well there the SOS or RPI won't really matter much. Indiana, UNLV, Syracuse, Michigan, etc. are teams that have won national championships and are considered contenders in basketball. You say the fact they have a worse strength of schedule than LSU means nothing?

In regards to RPI, unlike in previous years the majority of SEC teams have solid RPIs.