tennessee's sec tournament seed

[OrangeBalls]

NO WAY!!!

Our RPI if we win the next 3 is between 45-55, 55 being the VERY HIGHEST.

45-55? Where are you getting this? If we beat Vandy, it'll jump, but it's at home so it won't jump as much as a road win. We'll then get a team with a marginal RPI in the 2nd round that won't do much for us. We'd then have to probably beat Vandy again and it'll go up again. I don't see us beating Vandy twice in less than a week.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

What was Bama's RPI on Selection Sunday?

It's not just a comparison. It's a barometer to see what the NCAA uses to select you and how we'll fit in. Every year is different though. I just like to see where each team was and what their record was. I don't feel like looking it up, but I wonder who Bama and Miss St beat in their non-conference schedule those two years. What bad teams did they lose to like Austin Peay if any?

There was an argument that Bama and Miss St deserved to be in the NCAA tourney. Bama went 10-6 and still didn't make the tourney because of their non-conference strength if I remember correctly.

I'd say Miss St going on a run and almost beating (and should've beaten really) a good Ky team gave them a good argument to get in the tourney. Their overall body of work was pretty good. Their RPI was iffy, but they looked like a tourney team in the 3 games I saw them. I went to every game during that tourney and Ky was the only team better than them...barely. They handled a Vandy team fairly easily that made the tourney as a #4 seed.

Miss st rpi of 69 I horrible for a potential NCAA team.

Alabama was 73.

I believe only 1 team over 70 has ever been given an at large. Both Miss St and Bama the last 2 years are perfect examples of where your RPI DOES come into play. It's not a coincidence that team in the 70' don't get in, and that teams in the high 60's are often left out.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

45-55? Where are you getting this? If we beat Vandy, it'll jump, but it's at home so it won't jump as much as a road win. We'll then get a team with a marginal RPI in the 2nd round that won't do much for us. We'd then have to probably beat Vandy again and it'll go up again. I don't see us beating Vandy twice in less than a week.

You said if we won the next 3, so that's assuming we make it to the sec championship, whether it's vandy or not that we play in round 3.

If we beat vandy that's good for a minimum jump of 10, that puts us at 71.

A 2nd round matchup vs arky at this point is good for about 8 spots that's 63.

A 3rd round win over vandy is good for atleast 10, that's 53.

Depending on what UCONN and Florida were to do, and other teams ahead of us in the RPI, we could easily move into the 40's.

Plain and simple, there's NO WAY, we win the next 3 and our RPI isn't in the 50's. And that alone is much different than the 69 and 73 Mississippi state and bama were.

 

[OrangeBalls]

You said if we won the next 3, so that's assuming we make it to the sec championship, whether it's vandy or not that we play in round 3.

If we beat vandy that's good for a minimum jump of 10, that puts us at 71.

A 2nd round matchup vs arky at this point is good for about 8 spots that's 63.

A 3rd round win over vandy is good for atleast 10, that's 53.

Depending on what UCONN and Florida were to do, and other teams ahead of us in the RPI, we could easily move into the 40's.

Plain and simple, there's NO WAY, we win the next 3 and our RPI isn't in the 50's. And that alone is much different than the 69 and 73 Mississippi state and bama were.

Even though I wouldn't want to play Vandy a 3rd time because I don't like the matchups, it would give our RPI a good bump if we beat them. We would need for Fla or Vandy to not get upset to give the RPI a boost, but our road to the SEC championship game would be much easier if we faced a lower seeded team.

I think we'll be somewhere in the mid 50's to high 50's if we win out. It all depends on who beats who in the SEC tourney. We have to win Sat first though and Vandy is the most experienced team in the SEC. We don't matchup well with them IMO. This is another game where we could use Hall.

I think the committee uses the RPI too much IMO. I don't think So Miss is the 13th best team in the country, but the RPI does.

I'd like to see what our RPI is after the first of the year when Stokes joined the team. They can't ignore that we are a much better team with him, but will they allow that to enter into their discussions.

 

[OrangeBalls]

Pomeroy, who a number of experts think is a better rating than the RPI, now has us at #61. We were #65 I believe before the LSU game.

As a comparison, we were #64 in Pomeroy's ratings before the NCAA tourney last year and got a #9 seed.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

Pomeroy, who a number of experts think is a better rating than the RPI, now has us at #61. We were #65 I believe before the LSU game.

As a comparison, we were #64 in Pomeroy's ratings before the NCAA tourney last year and got a #9 seed.

At the end of the day the formulas don't mean a whole lot as far as in or not, it's used more as a comparison and a cut of point, such as the 70.

That's why I really feel wed benefit from miss st losing. To me they are the 5 team in and Tennessee is right behind them as the 6th team. I don't know that the sec will get 6 teams in, so I'd feel muh more comfortable abou our chances if miss st was to lose.

If they lost and thn lost first round, I could see us maybe getting in with only 1 win and a RPI around 60. I know that very few, if any, 15 loss teams have gotten at large bids, but I feel out circumstances are a bit different.

With how well we have played of late and then looking at how well we've played since adding stokes, I think the committee would atleast have an argument as to why they picked us if in fact they did with 15 losses.

JMHO