Week 1 College Hoops Report

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Will try to make this a weekly feature on Mondays. Obviously, the RPI information (courtesy of Jerry Palm & CollegeRPI.com) will evolve & take shape as the season progresses.

RPI Sweet 16
T1. Syracuse (2-0)
T1. Temple (2-0)
T1. Duke (1-0)
T1. Gardner-Webb (1-0)
T1. Massachusetts (1-0)
T1. Pacific (1-0)
T1. Purdue (1-0)
T1. Santa Clara (1-0)
T1. Canisius (1-1)
10. Montana State (1-1)
11. Maryland (3-0)
T12. Cleveland State (3-0)
T12. Loyola-Chicago (3-0)
T12. Oregon (3-0)
T12. Portland (3-0)
T12. Hawaii (2-0)
T12. Seton Hall (1-1)
T12. Northern Iowa (0-1)

Big Ten in the RPI
T1. Purdue (1-0)
T25. Indiana (2-0)
T25. Iowa (0-1)
51. Illinois (3-0)
T57. Wisconsin (1-0)
T75. Michigan (1-0)
T75. Michigan State (1-0)
T75. Minnesota (1-0)
T75. Northwestern (1-0)
T75. Ohio State (1-0)
T75. Penn State (1-0)

Non-BCS Wins over BCS Schools
North Carolina-Asheville 70, Auburn 69
Princeton 78, Rutgers 73
South Dakota State 79, Iowa 69
Southern Miss 60, South Florida 53
Stetson 89, Wake Forest 79
Temple 62, Seton Hall 56

BCS vs. BCS
There were no BCS vs. BCS games played in Week 1, but things will heat up this week with many of the notable in-season tournaments getting started.

Top-50 Wins by Big Ten Teams
Too early, but we'll start tracking this in the next couple weeks.

Gopher Nonconference Opponents in the RPI
T19. North Dakota State (2-1)
T45. Eastern Kentucky (1-2)
T52. South Dakota State (2-0)
T73. Cornell (1-1)
T75. Virginia (1-0)
T75. Western Kentucky (1-0)
T184. Akron (0-0)
T184. Saint Joseph's (0-1)
T184. Siena (0-1)
T184. Wofford (0-1)

Week 1 Team of the Week: Georgetown -- The Hoyas log the first significant win of the 2010-11 season, beating Colonial Athletic Association favorite Old Dominion 62-59 on the road.

Week 1 Team of the Weak: Auburn -- Not the start new Tigers head coach Tony Barbee envisioned, a 70-69 home loss to Big South member North Carolina-Asheville.
 

Thanks for the report, Hodger. I appreciate it and it will get more meaningful as the season progresses.

Quick question: Do you think Wofford becomes a top 100 team before the end of the season? I'm not sure what their conference provides, but I think they play a good NC schedule. Just gauging how good a quality a win the game on Friday was.
 

I know RPI this soon is meaningless, but exactly how does Iowa lose to the SDSU Bunnies and end up with an RPI of 25 ahead of the Big 10 teams that won games?
 

Great report, will be very interesting after the NC schedule to look at this...
 

Wofford

Holy Man,

Wofford certainly is playing a nonconference schedule that will get it in the top 100 if it can dominate its league. In addition to the Gophers, Wofford plays at Clemson (tonight), at Xavier, at South Carolina and at VCU. The Terriers also are in the Charleston Classic later this week, where they'll likely play Georgetown in the semifinals & after that likely George Mason or NC State in their final game of the tourney. If they can win just a couple of those games, that would be helpful.
 


Because Purdue is tied for #1 in RPI we all know how great of a measure that RPI really is especially this early in the season.

All kidding aside when does RPI start giving us a good picture of the college basketball landscape?
 

Probably not until late December or shortly after the New Year. It's pretty much all about positioning until the conference seasons begin.
 





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