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Loyola is 6-2 and RPI 40!

tornado

tornado

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They are right behind Butler - whose RPI is currently 38 - in the Horizon League!

Who'd have thunk it earlier this season, that Loyola coming into Carver Arena, would be a FAR, FAR higher rated team RPI-wise than
any non-conference team on the schedules of ISU, UNI, Indiana State, Drake, or Wichita...
In fact, Loyola is now the 3rd TOP-40 opponent BU has faced, while nobody else in the Valley has faced more than ONE!

I know we're gonna get the knee jerk critiques that you can't use the RPI, but I think it does carry some significance here...
showing that BU's schedule is clearly one of the top non-conference schedules in the Valley, despite all the complaints we heard last fall.

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse and that playing Niagara would help...
Pomeroy now ranks ISU's schedule at #345....out of 347 teams, only two spots from the absolute worst schedule in all of Division I.
http://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Illinois St.
 
Loyola is Loyola. This NEEDS to be a BU win. Preferably by 10+ points just to let any and all potential recruits know that the premier program in the state is NOT in Chicago, Champaign, Carbondale, or B-N.
 
I think the relevant news out of this is that Loyola is giving us good computer numbers for our own SoS and RPI.

If I had to guess, they'll probably hover around RPI 100 in March. And for a game that looked like the 6th toughest non-con game or so heading into the season, that RPI is a bonus for us.

If there's one thing Les is good at, it's at scheduling for the profile.
 
tornado said:
They are right behind Butler - whose RPI is currently 38 - in the Horizon League!

Who'd have thunk it earlier this season, that Loyola coming into Carver Arena, would be a FAR, FAR higher rated team RPI-wise than
any non-conference team on the schedules of ISU, UNI, Indiana State, Drake, or Wichita...
In fact, Loyola is now the 3rd TOP-40 opponent BU has faced, while nobody else in the Valley has faced more than ONE!

I know we're gonna get the knee jerk critiques that you can't use the RPI, but I think it does carry some significance here...
showing that BU's schedule is clearly one of the top non-conference schedules in the Valley, despite all the complaints we heard last fall.

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse and that playing Niagara would help...
Pomeroy now ranks ISU's schedule at #345....out of 347 teams, only two spots from the absolute worst schedule in all of Division I.
http://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Illinois St.
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Well top 40 RPI or not, this team is not half as good as Western Carolina. Therefore this is a team we MUST beat. Which I'm very confident they will. :)
 
BradleyBrave said:
Well, I hope everyone doesn't say it's OK to lose this one at home too.
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I don't think it's okay. W. Carolina is a much stronger team than Loyola is. We can maybe get away with one home loss, but certainly not two! I hope we are as dominant over them as we were earlier this year on their home court.
 
Braves4Life said:
Loyola is Loyola. This NEEDS to be a BU win. Preferably by 10+ points just to let any and all potential recruits know that the premier program in the state is NOT in Chicago, Champaign, Carbondale, or B-N.
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Oh I don't think anyone is mistaking that team in B-N as the premier program in the state! :D
 
Bravesfan said:
I don't think it's okay. W. Carolina is a much stronger team than Loyola is. We can maybe get away with one home loss, but certainly not two! I hope we are as dominant over them as we were earlier this year on their home court.
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Just saw that W. Carolina now has the #10 RPI. Regardless of the team's name, if you were to tell me that BU lost at home to the team ranked #10 in the RPI, there is no way I could possibly consider calling that a bad loss.

They are a much stronger team than Loyola.
 
Bravesfan said:
I don't think it's okay. W. Carolina is a much stronger team than Loyola is. We can maybe get away with one home loss, but certainly not two! I hope we are as dominant over them as we were earlier this year on their home court.
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Western Carolina wasn't OK either. Going undefeated at home the rest of the way is the only way to even come close to making up for it as far as our performance at home is concerned.
 
This is comical...Loyola is absolutely horrible...and their RPI of 40 means absolutely nothing...
They are picked to finish dead last in the Horizon League this year...
They have played one decent team thus far, and that team, K-State, beat them by 38 points...

Their RPI will be closer to 200 than 100 when all is said and done...so no, this won't be a quality win for BU, this won't help our precious SoS, it's just a game we have to win to avoid being embarrassed...
 
PTownHawkeye said:
Just saw that W. Carolina now has the #10 RPI. Regardless of the team's name, if you were to tell me that BU lost at home to the team ranked #10 in the RPI, there is no way I could possibly consider calling that a bad loss.

They are a much stronger team than Loyola.
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This early in the year...you HAVE to look at the team name when it comes to rpi. It was a bad home loss period. Mainly because we had it for the taking and let it get away, but the bottom line is I'm convinced we are the better team when we are playing with INTENSITY, and it didn't happen. That, to me, is a bad loss.

Case and point about having to look at team name early in the season..last year Evansville was a top 10 rpi team well into the nonconference schedule................
 
Everyone's acting like the RPI is the end-all measurement for determining how good a team is. As the NCAA selection committee has shown, a team's individual RPI (especially when the team is a mid-major) is not as valuable as you think ;)
 
Southern Miss. has an RPI of 12.
William and Mary has an RPI of 18.
Coastal Carolina has an RPI of 43.
Loyola has an RPI of 47.

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Michigan State has an RPI of 60.
North Carolina has an RPI of 77.

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Meaningless. RPI carries no significance whatsoever at this point in the year...
Believing otherwise is just wishful thinking...hoping to find some way to build up some false value in a potential upcoming win over a Horizon League bottom-feeder.
 
ER3 said:
Southern Miss. has an RPI of 12.
William and Mary has an RPI of 18.
Coastal Carolina has an RPI of 43.
Loyola has an RPI of 47.

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Michigan State has an RPI of 60.
North Carolina has an RPI of 77.

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Meaningless. RPI carries no significance whatsoever at this point in the year...
Believing otherwise is just wishful thinking...hoping to find some way to build up some false value in a potential upcoming win over a Horizon League bottom-feeder.
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Right on.

Green Bay will take Loyola behind the woodshed twice this year, as will Butler and a few others. If you really think Loyola is a top 50 team, I have some nice oceanfront property here in Oklahoma that I'll sell cheaply...
 
I'm just going to say one thing. Loyola is still the only D1 men's basketball team from the State of Illinois to ever win a NCAA Championship game and I'm proud of it.
 
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