re: SEC Basketball Standings & RPI...4 games to go

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I agree about the focus on quality wins, but I find it kind of funny experts talking about hopefully a team cracks the top 50 so they count as a quality win for the other team's resume.

So at the end of the year a win over team number 51 or 54 in the RPI is nothing, but boy beating team number 50, separated by hundredths of an RPI point is a big win!

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Yeah, I tend to think the precise "RPI Top50" line is one used a lot more by commentators for talking points than that the committee is really going to weigh beating LSU that much differently if they are #50 instead of #51.

I don't think they'll be saying, for example, that Iona and Harvard at #49 and #50 are quality wins but LSU at #51 isn't.


At least, I like to think they are a bit smarter than that.

However, the other side of it is that Texas A&M does have the issue that LSU isn't much of a quality win to hang your hat on whether they are #45 or #52 unless LSU really moves up significantly.


In the end though, if Texas A&M goes 4-2 to close out, even without another quality win, I doubt they have a lot to worry about since there's going to more teams around them on the bubble that do worse and it seems they are already on the right side now.


The SEC isn't great this year but most of the middle to lower placed teams did well enough out of conference this year (for a change) that there seems to be more respect for the overall schedule.