Data below includes all games played through Sunday January 27, 2013. RPI is from WarrenNolan.com.


CONFERENCE USA
RPI: #11
Sagarin: #12
**Record overall: 141-95 (.597)
**Record vs. Conference USA opponents: 33-33 (.500)
**Record vs. non-conference opponents: 108-62 (.635)
**Record vs. Division 1 non-conference opponents: 94-61 (.606)
**Record vs. non-Division 1 non-conference opponents: 14-1 (.933)
Record vs. the ACC: 0-7
Record vs. the Big East: 1-5
Record vs. the Big Ten: 1-2
Record vs. the Big XII: 3-5
Record vs. the Pac 12: 2-3
Record vs. the SEC: 3-4
**Record vs. the "big 6" conferences: 10-26 (.278)
Record vs. the Atlantic 10: 0-6
Record vs. the Missouri Valley: 3-6
Record vs. the Mountain West: 1-3
Record vs. the West Coast: 3-1
**Record vs. the top 10 conferences (the “big 6”, Atlantic 10, Missouri Valley, Mountain West and West Coast): 17-42 (.288)
**Record vs. non-top 10 conferences (including independents) in Division 1 (excluding C-USA): 77-19 (.802)
**Record vs. ranked non-conference opponents (AP): 0-10 (East Carolina: 0-1; Marshall: 0-1; Memphis: 0-1; Southern Mississippi: 0-1; Tulsa: 0-1; UCF: 0-1; UAB: 0-2; UTEP: 0-2)
**Record vs. non-conference opponents at HOME: 82-14 (.854)
**Record vs. non-conference opponents AWAY: 18-32 (.360)
**Record vs. non-conference opponents on a NEUTRAL court: 8-16 (.333)


**Current RPI of each member of Conference USA**
(in parenthesis is each team’s record vs. Division 1 opponents only)
-Southern Mississippi (15-4, 6-0): #40 (SOS: #142)
-Memphis (16-3, 5-0): #48 (SOS: #115)
-UTEP (11-7, 4-1): #64 (SOS: #32)
-UCF (13-5, 4-1): #104 (SOS: #161)
-Tulsa (11-9, 4-3): #112 (SOS: #114)
-East Carolina (8-7, 3-3): #116 (SOS: #89)
-Tulane (13-6, 2-3): #146 (SOS: #264)
-UAB (7-12, 0-5): #172 (SOS: #72)
-SMU (10-10, 1-5): #183 (SOS: #190)
-Marshall (8-11, 2-3): #192 (SOS: #104)
-Houston (12-6, 2-4): #217 (SOS: #335)
-Rice (3-14, 0-5): #308 (SOS: #154)


**Current RPI of each future member of Conference USA**
(in parenthesis is each team’s record vs. Division 1 opponents only)
-Middle Tennessee (18-4, 10-1): #35 (SOS: #110)
-Louisiana Tech (18-3, 9-0): #42 (SOS: #187)
-Charlotte (16-4, 4-2): #54 (SOS: #143)
-FIU (11-9, 6-5): #136 (SOS: #170)
-FAU (9-12, 5-6): #207 (SOS: #217)
-North Texas (7-13, 3-8): #256 (SOS: #169)
-UTSA (5-14, 1-8): #277 (SOS: #250)
-Old Dominion (2-17, 0-7): #323 (SOS: #185)


Remaining Non-Conference Games for Conference USA Teams
Memphis
-02/26: @ Xavier (11-8)...RPI: #72 (SOS: #49)
UCF
-02/26: Georgia Southwestern (Non-Division 1)
UTEP
-02/23: @ New Mexico State (12-8)...RPI: #78 (SOS: #82)


**Current RPI ranking of the top 10 conferences in Division 1**
(each conference’s record is vs. Division 1 non-conference opponents only)
1. Big Ten…121-31 (.796)…0.5923
2. Mountain West…86-26 (.768)…0.5870
3. Big East…151-34 (.816)…0.5867
4. ACC…114-37 (.755)…0.5762
5. Big XII…89-33 (.730)…0.5697
6. Pac 12…109-41 (.727)…0.5696
7. Atlantic 10…143-77 (.650)…0.5547
8. SEC…117-58 (.669)…0.5485
9. Missouri Valley…68-42 (.618)…0.5366
10. West Coast…69-44 (.611)…0.5328
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11. Conference USA…94-61 (.607)…0.5173


Conference USA’s RPI Finish Year-By-Year
2012-13 (so far): 0.5173 (#11)
2011-12: 0.5292 (#9)
2010-11: 0.5366 (#8)
2009-10: 0.5170 (#11)
2008-09: 0.5206 (#10)
2007-08: 0.5178 (#10)
2006-07: 0.5088 (#11)
2005-06: 0.5015 (#13)
2004-05: 0.5336 (#9)
2003-04: 0.5490 (#5)
2002-03: 0.5447 (#8)
2001-02: 0.5388 (#8)
2000-01: 0.5259 (#10)
1999-00: 0.5583 (#5)
1998-99: 0.5452 (#6)
1997-98: 0.5355 (#8)
1996-97: 0.5341 (#9)
1995-96: 0.5624 (#5)


Conference USA’s RPI History
(Team’s records consist of W-L's vs. only Division 1 opponents thru all games played in the regular season and conference tournament):
2011-12
C-USA RPI: #9
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 2
*Memphis (26-8)…RPI: #16 (SOS: #20)…received #8 seed (West Region)
*Southern Mississippi (23-8)…RPI: #21 (SOS: #47)…received #9 seed (East Region)

2010-11
C-USA RPI: #8
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 2
*Memphis (25-9)…RPI: #28 (SOS: #46)…received #12 seed (West Region)
*UAB (22-8)…RPI: #31 (SOS: #78)…received #12 seed (East Region)

2009-10
C-USA RPI: #11
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 2
*UTEP (26-6)…RPI: #38 (SOS: #111)…received #12 seed (West Region)
*Houston (18-15)…RPI: #110 (SOS: #106)...received #14 seed (Midwest Region)

2008-09
C-USA RPI: #10
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 1
*Memphis (31-3)…RPI: #7 (SOS: #49)…received #2 seed (West Region)

2007-08
C-USA RPI: #10
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 1
*Memphis (33-1)…RPI: #3 (SOS: #27)…received #1 seed (South Region)

2006-07
C-USA RPI: #11
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 1
*Memphis (30-3)…RPI: #8 (SOS: #75)…received #2 seed (South Region)

2005-06
C-USA RPI: #13
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 2
*Memphis (30-3)…RPI: #4 (SOS: #31)…received #1 seed (West Region)
*UAB (23-6)…RPI: #32 (SOS: #115)…received #9 seed (East Region)

2004-05
C-USA RPI: #9
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 4
*Louisville (27-4)…RPI: #12 (SOS: #54)…received #4 seed (West Region)
*Cincinnati (24-7)…RPI: #24 (SOS: #53)…received #7 seed (South Region)
*Charlotte (21-7)…RPI: #31 (SOS: #99)…received #7 seed (East Region)
*UAB (21-10)…RPI: #49 (SOS: #92)…received #11 seed (Midwest Region)

2003-04
C-USA RPI: #5
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 6
*Cincinnati (24-6)…RPI: #11 (SOS: #23)…received #4 seed (South Region)
*DePaul (21-9)…RPI: #37 (SOS: #51)…received #7 seed (West Region)
*Memphis (21-7)…RPI: #32 (SOS: #65)…received #7 seed (East Region)
*Charlotte (21-8)…RPI: #34 (SOS: #58)…received #9 seed (East Region)
*UAB (20-9)…RPI: #33 (SOS: #35)…received #9 seed (Midwest Region)
*Louisville (20-9)…RPI: #24 (SOS: #16)…received #10 seed (South Region)

2002-03
C-USA RPI: #8
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 4
*Marquette (23-5)…RPI: #10 (SOS: #39)…received #3 seed (Midwest Region)
*Louisville (24-6)…RPI: #11 (SOS: #26)…received #4 seed (East Region)
*Memphis (23-6)…RPI: #26 (SOS: #77)…received #7 seed (West Region)
*Cincinnati (17-11)…RPI: #29 (SOS: #9)…received #8 seed (West Region)

2001-02
C-USA RPI: #8
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 3
*Cincinnati (30-3)…RPI: #2 (SOS: #23)…received #1 seed (West Region)
*Marquette (26-6)…RPI: #23 (SOS: #87)…received #5 seed (East Region)
*Charlotte (18-11)…RPI: #37 (SOS: #22)…received #9 seed (South Region)

2000-01
C-USA RPI: #10
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 2
*Cincinnati (23-9)…RPI: #31 (SOS: #63)…received #5 seed (West Region)
*Charlotte (21-10)…RPI: #48 (SOS: #77)…received #9 seed (Midwest Region)

1999-00
C-USA RPI: #5
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 4
*Cincinnati (28-3)…RPI: #1 (SOS: #5)…received #2 seed (South Region)
*Louisville (18-11)…RPI: #29 (SOS: #15)…received #7 seed (West Region)
*DePaul (20-11)…RPI: #30 (SOS: #25)…received #9 seed (East Region)
*Saint Louis (19-13)…RPI: #33 (SOS: #10)…received #9 seed (Midwest Region)

1998-99
C-USA RPI: #6
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 4
*Cincinnati (25-5)…RPI: #9 (SOS: #35)…received #3 seed (East Region)
*Charlotte (22-10)…RPI: #19 (SOS: #18)…received #5 seed (Midwest Region)
*Louisville (19-10)…RPI: #22 (SOS: #21)…received #7 seed (South Region)
*UAB (20-11)…RPI: #48 (SOS: #68)…received #12 seed (West Region)

1997-98
C-USA RPI: #8
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 3
*Cincinnati (26-5)…RPI: #16 (SOS: #71)…received #2 seed (West Region)
*Charlotte (19-10)…RPI: #31 (SOS: #20)…received #8 seed (East Region)
*Saint Louis (21-10)…RPI: #47 (SOS: #75)…received #10 seed (South Region)

1996-97
C-USA RPI: #9
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 4
*Cincinnati (25-7)…RPI: #13 (SOS: #47)…received #3 seed (Midwest Region)
*Louisville (23-8)…RPI: #18 (SOS: #56)…received #6 seed (East Region)
*Charlotte (21-8)…RPI: #27 (SOS: #62)…received #7 seed (West Region)
*Marquette (22-8)…RPI: #51 (SOS: #106)…received #7 seed (Southeast Region)

1995-96
C-USA RPI: #5
C-USA schools receiving NCAA Tournament invitations: 4
*Cincinnati (25-4)…RPI: #4 (SOS: #19)…received #2 seed (Southeast Region)
*Marquette (22-7)…RPI: #23 (SOS: #47)…received #4 seed (East Region)
*Memphis (22-7)…RPI: #15 (SOS: #27)…received #5 seed (West Region)
*Louisville (19-11)…RPI: #19 (SOS: #5)…received #6 seed (Midwest Region)

**Current RPI of each member of the future Conference USA (probable 2014-15 version)**
(in parenthesis is each team’s record vs. Division 1 opponents only)
-Middle Tennessee (18-4, 10-1): #35 (SOS: #110)
-Southern Mississippi (15-4, 6-0): #40 (SOS: #142)
-Louisiana Tech (18-3, 9-0): #42 (SOS: #187)
-Charlotte (16-4, 4-2): #54 (SOS: #143)
-UTEP (11-7, 4-1): #64 (SOS: #32)
-FIU (11-9, 6-5): #136 (SOS: #170)
-UAB (7-12, 0-5): #172 (SOS: #72)
-Western Kentucky (10-11, 5-6): #174 (SOS: #152)*
-Marshall (8-11, 2-3): #192 (SOS: #104)
-FAU (9-12, 5-6): #207 (SOS: #217)
-North Texas (7-13, 3-8): #256 (SOS: #169)
-UTSA (5-14, 1-8): #277 (SOS: #250)
-Rice (3-14, 0-5): #308 (SOS: #154)
-Old Dominion (2-17, 0-7): #323 (SOS: #185)

*Assuming Tulsa leaves for the Big East and Western Kentucky is added

Thanks for the info...Nice work.

I thought C-USA brought in ODU for its hoops program? Now Charlotte on the other hand looks helpful.

(01-28-2013 08:22 AM)FIUFan Wrote:  I thought C-USA brought in ODU for its hoops program? Now Charlotte on the other hand looks helpful.

ODU is just having an abnormally poor year. I'd look for them to be back on top in a year or two. They won't be down for long, I suspect.

I'm not surprised that the "new" CUSA is stronger on the court than the current line up but what I'm surprised at is which programs are contributing at the top of the new conference.

I would have expected Charlotte and ODU to contribute significantly, but it's not the traditionally strong basketball programs that are contributing the most to the strength of the new line-up.

From potential cinderella's to bottom 20 in all of college basketball in about 2 years. I fall into the time for a new coaching staff, stat, camp. It'll take us 2-3 years to fix this mess. =[

Remember USM's football season last year? That's happening to ODU basketball right now.

Looking at the current RPI/SOS numbers and assuming that SUM/UM/UTEP each win some games against each other, I struggle with figuring out how the conference will have more than 1 bid this year.

(01-28-2013 10:36 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  This is interesting, our SOS is 250, the toughest of the new C-USA.

huh?

(01-28-2013 10:36 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  This is interesting, our SOS is 250, the toughest of the new C-USA.

Obviously, I'm missing something because I just don't understand your comment.

For SOS the lower the number, the tougher. The higher the number, the easier. So y'all have played the easiest schedule in nCUSA and still have only managed 5 wins...

Nvm, I just read it wrong it. This is just

(01-28-2013 09:52 AM)oldtiger Wrote:  Looking at the current RPI/SOS numbers and assuming that SUM/UM/UTEP each win some games against each other, I struggle with figuring out how the conference will have more than 1 bid this year.

I think Memphis and Southern Miss will both make the NCAAs unless one of them takes a bunch of bad losses.

I sure hope that UAB, WKU, and ODU perform better in the future than they are this year.

(01-28-2013 11:03 AM)Chappy Wrote:  

(01-28-2013 09:52 AM)oldtiger Wrote:  Looking at the current RPI/SOS numbers and assuming that SUM/UM/UTEP each win some games against each other, I struggle with figuring out how the conference will have more than 1 bid this year.

I think Memphis and Southern Miss will both make the NCAAs unless one of them takes a bunch of bad losses.

Obviously, I hope that's true.

My comment was based on the probability that rpi's could be headed somewhat downward since all but a game or two will be within the conference. Just looking at the numbers, our conference average rpi must be in the 140s-150s, so it's going to be hard to improve much.

Hey JMS... just curious... we're not that great against the Big-6+4 mid majors.. but what's the road/away records? I'd be curious to know if our games were at home or were we playing on the road in places like Rupp, the Pit, etc.

UTEP has a victory over an AP top 10 ranked team... against Oregon, although, they weren't at the time

(01-28-2013 05:29 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Hey JMS... just curious... we're not that great against the Big-6+4 mid majors.. but what's the road/away records? I'd be curious to know if our games were at home or were we playing on the road in places like Rupp, the Pit, etc.

You bring up a good point. C-USA is 10-26 vs. the "big 6", but only 25% of those games were on the home court of a C-USA school. 50% of those games were played on the home court of the "big 6" school.

36 games of C-USA teams vs. "big 6" opponents
-Home games for C-USA team: 9 (25%)
-Away games for C-USA team: 18 (50%)
-Neutral court games: 9 (25%)

(01-28-2013 05:44 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  UTEP has a victory over an AP top 10 ranked team... against Oregon, although, they weren't at the time

Yeah, I only include wins and losses vs. ranked opponents that were ranked at the time of the game. Oregon was not ranked when UTEP beat them on Dec 19. Since that loss to the Miners, the Ducks have won 9 in a row.

By the way, that is probably the win of the year for a C-USA team.