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Quote:• Kent State as a No. 9: "Kent deserved it. They're a good basketball team. They won the regular season and the conference tournament."

Well, I was thinking more like, why aren't they higher, but he was answering why aren't they lower.

Quote:• On Illinois State being out: "The committee doesn't get into scoring differential into one game [losing large to Drake in the MVC final]. Illinois State had four losses below [RPI top] 100 and the strength of schedule in the 70s. That's a factor in the process."

Ok, the frakking RPI is 75% SOS. You don't need to weigh SOS and RPI. Oh, their RPI is really good, but there SOS isn't as good. All that means is that they took care of business against the teams they should habe to get that RPI higher. No need to get deeper than that.

Also, road record came up for Ohio State being left out and Oregon being left in (3 road wins against Top 100; but they were just 6-9 on the road. That's good because Kent had 3 top 100 road wins (Miami, Akron and St. Mary's).