2009-10 College Hoops [Winner: HighlanderAttack] [NIT: ga7]

[dowian2]

Update:
The Big East tournament will start tomorrow. This leaves only the Atlantic 10 with outstanding regular season games.

A bunch of upsets in the last two days:
#11 Tulane defeats #6 Tulane in the first round of the C-USA tournament.
#11 Nebraska defeats #6 Texas in the first round of the Big 12 tournament.
#5 Northwestern defeats #4 Indiana in the quarterfinals of the Big 10 tournament.
#7 Illinois defeats #2 Purdue in the quarterfinals of the Big 10 tournament.
#4 Nevada defeats #1 Idaho in the semifinals of the WAC tournament.
#9 Evansville defeats #4 Illinois St. in the semifinals of the MVC tournament.
#6 Boston U. defeats #2 Stony Brook in the semifinals of the America East tournament.
#9 VCU defeats #5 Delaware in the semifinals of the Colonial tournament.

Congratulations to all of you!

One conference final underway, in the America East tourney...
#6 Boston U vs #1 Maine: Game 6722336

[muy_thaiguy]

Wyoming beats the 4th seed New Mexico.
Game 6714965

[dowian2]

Congratulations to the #6 seeded Boston University Terriers on completing their run to the America East crown!

Boston University joins Columbia as the only two schools to have clinched a birth in the NCAA tournament!

[josko.ri]

Sure! Note that my excel spreadsheet automatically updates everything, so this has any updates since the last time I posted, so it could be slightly different.

1. East Carolina (24-6)
2. Memphis (23-9)
3. Idaho (21-7)
4. Kansas (23-9)
5. Oregon (24-6)
6. Gonzaga (23-7)
7. Iowa St. (24-7)
8. George Mason (20-9)
9. Yale (23-10)
10. Northern Iowa (20-8)
11. UMKC (20-9)
12. Temple (20-11)
13. Columbia (18-11)
14. Georgia Tech (19-11)
15. Dayton (20-10)
16. North Dakota St. (18-13)
17. South Dakota St. (18-11)
18. Charlotte (17-13)
19. Georgia St. (19-10)
20. Wichita St. (19-11)
21. Kansas St. (18-12)
22. UCLA (20-10)
23. Colorado (18-12)
24. UAB (20-10)
25. Old Dominion (19-12)
26. Tennessee (20-10)
27. Loyola-Marymount (17-14)
28. Southern Miss (16-14)
29. G. Washington (16-14)
30. Oakland (18-14)
31. James Madison (18-11)
32. Villanova (19-11)
33. Oregon St. (18-12)
34. Utah St. (20-14)
35. San Diego St. (19-11)
36. Delaware (18-12)
37. Fresno St. (17-14)
38. Nevada (16-13)
39. North Carolina (19-12)
40. Northern Ill. (17-11)
41. Louisiana Tech (19-16)
42. Indiana (20-10)
43. Utah (18-11)
44. Marist (17-11)
45. UMBC (16-13)
46. UTEP (20-12)
47. Virginia Tech (19-11)
48. Portland (15-13)
49. Notre Dame (20-11)
50. USC (18-12)
51. Marshall (16-15)
52. Santa Clara (18-14)
53. Towson (15-13)
54. Fordham (19-14)
55. La Salle (14-15)
56. Binghamton (18-16)
57. TCU (19-12)
58. Texas (18-13)
59. Stony Brook (16-13)
60. Clemson (19-14)
61. Bradley (14-13)
62. UCF (15-14)
63. Indiana St. (17-14)
64. Siena (15-15)
65. Penn St. (19-11)
66. Massachusetts (16-14)
67. Richmond (17-15)
68. Pepperdine (17-13)
69. Boston U. (16-12)
70. Wake Forest (17-15)
71. Southern Ill. (17-12)
72. Georgetown (18-11)
73. IUPUI (14-17)
74. Arkansas (20-12)
75. Duke (15-15)
76. California (16-13)
77. Buffalo (13-12)
78. Ohio St. (21-12)
79. Houston (14-16)
80. Princeton (11-15)
81. SMU (14-13)
82. Colorado St. (14-16)
83. Duquesne (19-14)
84. Eastern Mich. (14-15)
85. Cornell (16-15)
86. Northeastern (14-14)
87. Penn (14-14)
88. Illinois St. (15-14)
89. Maine (15-15)
90. Albany (13-17)
91. Maryland (16-13)
92. Cincinnati (16-14)
93. Harvard (14-14)
94. Miami (Ohio) (17-14)
95. Oklahoma St. (14-15)
96. VCU (16-14)
97. St. Louis (16-14)
98. Texas Tech (15-15)
99. Baylor (17-14)
100. South Carolina (18-12)
101. West Virginia (16-14)
102. Kentucky (19-12)
103. Oral Roberts (14-15)
104. Washington (16-14)
105. Dartmouth (15-16)
106. Nebraska (14-17)
107. Rhode Island (15-17)
108. N.C. State (16-15)
109. Western Mich. (15-14)
110. Ball St. (13-17)
111. DePaul (16-14)
112. NC-Wilmington (13-16)
113. San Jose St. (13-16)
114. Vermont (14-16)
115. Boston College (15-15)
116. Auburn (16-15)
117. UNLV (18-15)
118. Seton Hall (16-13)
119. New Mexico (17-15)
120. Akron (16-14)
121. Creighton (13-17)
122. Drake (12-17)
123. BYU (18-16)
124. Louisville (17-15)
125. Marquette (18-16)
126. San Diego (14-15)
127. Tulane (12-17)
128. Xavier (13-16)
129. Florida (17-14)
130. St. John´s (N.Y.) (15-14)
131. Purdue (16-14)
132. New Mexico St. (12-22)
133. Arizona St. (14-16)
134. Toledo (14-16)
135. Pittsburgh (16-15)
136. Missouri (12-19)
137. Wyoming (14-17)
138. Tulsa (12-20)
139. Texas A&M (12-18)
140. Evansville (12-16)
141. Michigan (14-16)
142. Florida St. (12-18)
143. Virginia (10-17)
144. Hawaii (13-18)
145. Illinois (16-14)
146. Bowling Green (11-17)
147. Providence (14-15)
148. Southern Utah (10-20)
149. Niagara (12-18)
150. Michigan St. (14-17)
151. Mississippi (13-17)
152. St. Mary´s (Ca.) (11-19)
153. Boise St. (10-21)
154. Northwestern (13-18)
155. Central Mich. (12-19)
156. LSU (14-15)
157. St. Bonaventure (11-17)
158. South Florida (14-16)
159. Washington St. (11-18)
160. Miami (Fla.) (11-19)
161. Alabama (12-18)
162. Rice (8-20)
163. Connecticut (13-17)
164. New Hampshire (10-17)
165. Minnesota (14-16)
166. San Francisco (10-18)
167. Stanford (9-20)
168. Ohio (11-23)
169. Hofstra (8-20)
170. Oklahoma (9-21)
171. Iowa (10-21)
172. Missouri St. (9-22)
173. William & Mary (8-22)
174. Wisconsin (9-22)
175. Drexel (8-22)
176. Mississippi St. (9-24)
177. Vanderbilt (10-20)
178. Rutgers (8-20)
179. Hartford (4-25)
180. Brown (5-27)
181. Syracuse (5-25)
182. Saint Joseph´s (3-26)
183. Arizona (5-26)
184. Air Force (2-29)
185. Georgia (4-26)
186. Kent St. (3-28)

I am not from USA so not so familiar with NCAA RPI system and format of competition, but I allways wondered throughout the season why am I better placed than someone with lower score than mine. maybe you may put not only record but also exactly number of RPI near all the teams, so we may see how we are far away from up and down placed teams. or you may do it only on final standings, if it requires too much time from you.

anyway, my opinion is that scoring system is good. if somebody look at the current RPI standings, in most it follows record of the teams. it is because when you play 30 games, record of your opponents will be very well averaged, I think something between 0.45-0.55, so points 2 and 3 will not make noticed input to the final RPI. but fact is, who had harder opponents, he could harder achieve win, so finally on the end of competition that disadvantage neutrals with RPI formula.
for example, my team (Memphis) got advantage because RPI formula. but, I played vs East Carolina(1), Kansas(4), Gonzaga(6), George Mason(8) from the top and only Syracuse (181) and Rice (162) from down, so I think it was much harder to me to achieve good record, and formula gives me the chance to neutral that hard schedule.

[superkeener]

Well superkeener, looks like we have a chance to meet in the conference championship game. All we have to do is win a few games in a row! GL, hope i see you there. Seeing a 14 seed vs an 8 seed in the championship would be something!

I look forward to seeing you there!!

good luck in the conference tournament

[josko.ri]

UTEP a Memphis have won their quarterfinal games, so semifinal can be sent.

[reptile]

Update:
The Big East tournament will start tomorrow. This leaves only the Atlantic 10 with outstanding regular season games.

A bunch of upsets in the last two days:
#11 Tulane defeats #6 Tulane in the first round of the C-USA tournament.
#11 Nebraska defeats #6 Texas in the first round of the Big 12 tournament.
#5 Northwestern defeats #4 Indiana in the quarterfinals of the Big 10 tournament.
#7 Illinois defeats #2 Purdue in the quarterfinals of the Big 10 tournament.
#4 Nevada defeats #1 Idaho in the semifinals of the WAC tournament.
#9 Evansville defeats #4 Illinois St. in the semifinals of the MVC tournament.
#6 Boston U. defeats #2 Stony Brook in the semifinals of the America East tournament.
#9 VCU defeats #5 Delaware in the semifinals of the Colonial tournament.

Congratulations to all of you!

One conference final underway, in the America East tourney...
#6 Boston U vs #1 Maine: Game 6722336

Go Nebraska!!!!!

[dowian2]

Two more upsets to report (besides the America East final, which was reported earlier):

#5 Wyoming defeated #4 New Mexico in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament.
#11 Tulane scored their second consecutive upset with a win at #3 UTEP in quarterfinals of the C-USA tournament.

The Big East tournament invites were just sent out - only one regular season game remaining in the A10!

[dowian2]

Update:

#6 Toledo defeated #3 Northern Illinois in the MAC tournament.
#5 California defeated #4 Washington in the Pac 10 tournament.
East division #5 Florida defeated West division #4 Alabama in the SEC tournament.

Also,
Congrats to #2 Loyola-Marymount and #1 Gonzaga for reaching the WCC championship game! Good luck, guys!

[jon_snow]

Game 6726421 5 Seed W. Michigan advances in the MAC. 2 more wins to an automatic berth.

[vykingsfan64]

Minnesota over Michigan

http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=6692365

[dowian2]

All regular-season games are now complete! The Atlantic 10 tourney will begin tomorrow!

All conference tournament brackets are now available on the first page (fourth post) if anyone's interested!

[ViperOverLord]

Zags lobbying for four WCC teams to make the tourney

[flexmaster33]

Golden Eagles lobbying for 12 spots out of the Big East

[dowian2]

More to report:
#9 Minnesota defeated #8 Michigan in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament.
#5 Western Michigan defeated #4 Buffalo in the quarterfinals of the MAC tournament.

And, a double-upset special:
#9 Baylor beat #8 Michigan in the first round of the Big 12 tournament... and then followed it up with a win at #1 Kansas!

Congrats to all of you!


Also, congrats to #2 TCU and #1 San Diego St. on reaching the finals of the Mountain West tournament! Good luck to you both!

[josko.ri]

Memphis won vs UTEP in semifinal game of USA Conference, so it will be final game between East Carolina and Memphis, two leaders according to RPI.

btw, does conference games also count for RPI point system?

[dowian2]

The conference tournament games do not count for RPI. They likely do in real life (I'm honestly not sure), but I've got them in a different spreadsheet, so they won't for this tournament

[dowian2]

More to report:

#15 Rutgers upset #10 Louisville in the first round of the Big East tournament.
#7 San Jose St. beat #2 Fresno St. in the quarterfinals of the WAC tournament.
#3 Colorado defeated #2 Kansas St. in the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament.

And...
Congratulations to #1 Gonzaga on clinching the third spot in the NCAA tournament by defeating #2 Loyola-Marymount in the WCC tournament finals!

for all of you!

[flexmaster33]

Opener of the Big East tourney and all I can muster for a halftime pep talk is..."Okay, boys let's pack our bags for the NIT"...it's not going well

[AmphibiousRodent]

I'm afraid I played myself right into the NIT as well. I guess Fresno State's fate rests in the hands of the committee.

[josko.ri]

#2 Memphis won vs #1 East Carolina in the final of USA Conference. it was match between 1st and 2nd team according to RPI point system.

[jon_snow]

Game 6750620 5 Seed W. Michigan advances to the MAC finals, defeating #1 seed Miami, Ohio.

1 more win for the automatic birth.

[dowian2]

A few more to report:
#12 Miami (FL) beat #5 Boston College in the opener of the ACC tournament.
#3 North Carolina beat #2 Clemson in the ACC semifinals.
#5 Iowa St. beat #4 Texas Tech in the Big 12 quarterfinals.
#11 Pittsburgh beat #6 Marquette in the second round of the Big East tournament.
#5 Western Michigan beat #1 Miami (OH) in the semis of the MAC tourney.

And #2 Memphis beat #1 East Carolina in the finals of the Conference USA tournament to clinch the fourth berth in the NCAA Tournament!

[vykingsfan64]

#9 Minnesota knocks off #1 Ohio St.

http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=6750617

[dowian2]

Congratulations to the following:

#12 Miami (FL) beat #4 Duke in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament.
#9 Minnesota beat #1 Ohio St. in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament.
#5 West Virginia defeated #4 Notre Dame in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.
#3 Old Dominion beat #2 James Madison in the semis of the Colonial tournament.
#7 Southern Utah beat #2 South Dakota St in triple overtime (43 rounds!) in the quarterfinals of the Summit-MAAC tournament.

Congrats to all of you!

All tournament brackets have been updated... I'm trying to get invites out ASAP for all games and update the brackets once a day. If anyone has any questions... about anything... feel free to PM me or post to the thread and I'll answer to the best of my ability!