Saw this interesting tidbit from D1- Kendall Rogers:
UCSB — whatever you do, don’t lose!
We had the Gauchos as one of our final Top 16 seeds and hosts this week, but there’s zero margin for error this weekend as they face a Bakersfield team at home with an RPI of 282. That’s nightmare fuel for the Gauchos … if they lose a game. So, get this: if the Gauchos win the series opener against the Roadrunners, they’ll drop to 19-20 in the RPI. If they somehow lose the series opener to the ‘Runners, they’d drop more than 70 RPI points, which would put them in the 23-24 range. In other words, don’t lose!