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Gonzaga and South
Dakota State lead men's and women's home
court records lists
Gonzaga
leads all 343 men's teams that count in the
RPI in home court winning percentage for the
4th time in 5 years. The Zags have a 64-3
record, and that .9552 percentage places
Gonzaga at the top of the list. The Zags can
also make a strong claim to be at the top of
the list for the 5 consecutive years the
McCarthy Athletic Center has been in use.
Last season, Presbyterian, which is a
reclassifying institution, headed the list
with a 5-0 record. Three of those games were
against non-Division I competition, and
playing only 5 games on a home court in a
30-game season could certainly be considered
unusual. Pittsburgh, North Dakota State,
Memphis, and Charleston rounded out the top
5 home court winning percentages for the
men. Click here
to see the entire men's list and additional
home court information for each men's team.
South Dakota
State took top honors for the women this
year, boasting a 51-3 (.9444) record in the
four seasons the Jackrabbits have been RPI
counters. State grabbed national headlines
on many fronts this past season. They were
the first team to make the NCAA tournament
in its first season of eligibility, they
were the highest-seeded team (No. 7 seed)
from a conference to have only one team in
the NCAA tournament, and they gave No. 2
seed Baylor all they could handle in the
second round before falling 60-58. Tennessee
is not far behind the Jackrabbits with a
307-20 (.9388) home court record, and
Liberty, Montana, and UW-Green Bay round out
the top five home court winning percentages
for the women.
Click here to see the entire women's
list and additional home court information
for each women's team.
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Bracket Bits from The RPI Report and The Women's RPI Report
From The RPI Report: Since 1991, 99.3% of teams ranked No. 1-30 in the RPI have been in the NCAA tournament as both automatic and at-large selections, 83.1% ranked No. 31-40 in the RPI were in, 55.4% of the teams ranked No. 41-50 in the RPI played in the tournament, 25.7% ranked No. 51-60 were in it, and only 9 at-large teams ranked below No. 60 have been selected for the tournament. While the NCAA says that they do not use the RPI directly for selecting teams for the tournament, it is obvious that the better the RPI rank, the better chance a team has for making the tournament. From The Women's RPI Report: Since 1997, 99.2% of teams ranked No. 1-30 in the RPI have been in the NCAA tournament as both automatic and at-large selections, 84.3% ranked No. 31-40 in the RPI were in, 55.9% of the teams ranked No. 41-50 in the RPI played in the tournament, 23.5% ranked No. 51-60 were in it, and only 11 at-large teams ranked below No. 60 have been selected for the tournament in the last 12 seasons. It is interesting to take a look at the percentages of teams making the tournament in the different categories between the men and women.
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Teams with No. 1 schedule strength rankings
can usually look forward to an NCAA tournament invitation
Tennessee ended the 2008 regular season with both the No. 1 RPI and schedule strength rankings, the first time since 1993 that any team took top
honors in both of these categories. Since 1991,
14 of the 18 teams holding the No. 1
regular season schedule strength rank have been in the NCAA tournament. In four of the last seven years, the team
holding top schedule strength honors has lost in
the first round of the NCAA tournament. The
listed Division I record is for the final,
regular season. List
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Several conferences use CBN's RPI data to break tournament seeding ties
Nearly all conference offices subscribe
to both The RPI Report and The Women's RPI Report because they know they can count on the most accurate weighted RPI for the men
and the adjusted, or "secret", RPI for the women anywhere this side of the NCAA tournament selection
committees. CBN first made the Adjusted RPI ratings (which are no longer
used for the men) available to The RPI Report and The Women's RPI Report subscribers during the 1998-99 season. The NCAA used the Adjusted RPI ratings from the 1993-94
through the 2003-04 season for the men and
have used the weighted RPI since the 2004-05
season, while the women continue to use the
Adjusted RPI. The weighted RPI gives more credit to
teams that schedule tough opponents and that
beat good teams both at home and on the
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AP carries the Men's RPI Ratings for 15th consecutive year during the 2008-09 season
For the 15th consecutive year, the Associated Press (AP) is carrying the RPI, provided by CBN, for both men's and women's college basketball. In addition, this is the
12th season that the AP has distributed the women's RPI. The final, full season men's and women's RPI ratings will be sent to the AP following the NCAA championship games. Story |
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Statistics updated through games of Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The April 13, 2009 issues of The RPI Report and The Women's RPI Report are now online |
Listen to a short radio clip that CBN's Jim Sukup had
on ESPN Radio with Chuck Wilson, Tony Bruno, and Mike Tirico on Sat., March 13, 1993. This was the first national radio interview that Sukup gave regarding
the RPI. Note that the RPI formula has changed several times since then. Listen
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