Mike, I'm talking about rpi, not polls.

I am wondering if there have been instances where a team has been in the teens
in mid february and have fallen to the point of being on the wrong side of the
bubble.

Rpi doesn't seem so fluid that a team can go from 15 to 45 in a matter of 6
games barring total collapse, so I don't see it happening too often.


Villanova was #13 entering last night's game (the win dropped them to 16), but
their conference record is shaky (although their con rpi is #4, they've played a
tougher schedule than most). That is why I was curious of this question.



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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mike Kerry" <mkcubs@...>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:11:17
To:<collegerpi@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [collegerpi] Re:Historical Question

I can think of a couple of teams that were in the top 5 in February that had a
player hurt and were never the same and were 1 and done in their conference
tournament and the NCAA tournament. Probably a Valley team the past few years
that received the short end of the stick for the NCAA but they were for RPI not
voting as they don't have the names like the big 6 conferences.

But isn't this a totally irrelevant question? Must be a Duke or UConn fan.
Rankings of some teams this year seems to be given due to the history of the
program rather than this years team effort.

You play a season of games, 27 or 30 maybe 31 depending on the tournaments the
team was in. You don't play 25 games and say please don't look at the final 5 or
6 games that we were beaten in. What about the teams that started the year
slowly and then won their last 8 of 10 games but don't make a tournament?
Clemson was 17-0 until they hit the skids, were they a top team early this year
and are they on the bubble now? Plus they were given a bad break at Duke. The
answer always is it's about the whole season. Let's play the games and then see
where people are ranked. But with seedings these days do they even follow the
rankings?

This is like the handringing with the BCS, oh my, with 5 games to go we have 7
unbeaten teams. Oh my, what will happen? Play the games out and guess what there
are often only 1 or 2 unbeaten then but the media gets fans get all worried
about what will happen in the future. Almost like you have to book your plane
ticket in advance to get a cheap fare, it has to be done now but I don't know if
my team will be there. This has become just goofy with the video game mentality
that we need an answer in 15 minutes rather than watching the real game for 2 or
3 hours.

Mike Kerry

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