Not that this is bad or anything, I’ve certainly enjoyed hearing what all K-State’s opponents have been up to since we played them. It just seems like keeping track of the tournament resumés of other likely top seeds would be more relevant at this point in the season.

Maybe something along the lines of this:

For all opponents true road games are indicated by “at”, neutral court games by “vs”.
All team numbers are RPI ranks from realtimerpi.com’s February 25th daily list.

Team resumés are given in the following format:
Team
RPI SOS Record: overall (conference)
Conference affiliation

Quality Wins: listed in order of increasing RPI, i.e. best first

Losses: listed in order of decreasing RPI, i.e. worst first

vs top 10: overall, away from home (“away” includes both road and neutral court games)
vs top 25: overall, away from home (includes vs top 10 record)
vs top 50: overall, away from home (includes vs top 25 record)
vs top 100: overall, away from home (includes vs top 50 record)
vs 100+: overall, away from home (does NOT include vs top 100 record)

Remaining Games: in chronological order

With no further ado, the nine teams I think have a reasonable shot at 1 or 2 seeds, in alphabetical order:

Duke Blue Devils

RPI Rank: 2 SOS Rank: 6 Record: 23-4 (11-2)
Conference: Atlantic Coast

Quality Wins: #21 Wake Forest, vs #26 Gonzaga, #29 Maryland, #33 Georgia Tech, #34 Florida State, at #36 Clemson, #36 Clemson, vs #40 Connecticut, #48 Virginia Tech, #55 Charlotte, vs #56 Arizona St., #74 St. John’s, at #83 Miami(FL)

Losses: at #120 NC State, at #33 Georgia Tech, at #17 Wisconsin, at #9 Georgetown

vs top 10: 0-1, 0-1
vs top 25: 1-2, 0-2
vs top 50: 9-3, 3-3
vs top 100: 13-3, 5-3
vs 100+: 10-1, 3-1

Remaining Games: #75 Tulsa, at #113 Virginia, at #29 Maryland, #102 North Carolina

Georgetown Hoyas

RPI Rank: 9 SOS Rank: 1 Record: 19-7 (9-6)
Conference: Big East

Quality Wins: #2 Duke, #8 Villanova, at #11 Pittsburgh, #13 Temple, vs #16 Butler, #40 Connecticut, at #42 Louisville, #52 Seaton Hall, vs #62 Washington, #74 St. John’s, #95 Harvard

Losses: at #125 Rutgers, #69 South Florida, at #54 Marquette, #41 Old Dominion, at #8 Villanova, #4 Syracuse, at #4 Syracuse,

vs top 10: 2-3, 0-2
vs top 25: 5-3, 2-2
vs top 50: 7-4, 3-2
vs top 100: 11-6, 4-3
vs 100+: 8-1, 4-1

Remaining Games: #72 Notre Dame, at #5 West Virginia, #59 Cincinnati

Kansas Jayhawks

RPI Rank: 1 SOS Rank: 24 Record: 27-1 (13-0)
Conference: Big 12

Quality Wins: at #6 Kansas State, #12 Baylor, at #13 Temple, at #18 Texas A&M, at #22 Texas, #24 California, #39 Missouri, #49 Cornell, #51 Texas Tech, #68 Oakland, vs #69 Memphis

Losses: at #20 Tennessee

vs top 10: 1-0, 1-0
vs top 25: 6-1, 4-1
vs top 50: 8-1, 4-1
vs top 100: 11-1, 5-1
vs 100+: 16-0, 4-0

Remaining Games: at #31 Oklahoma St., #6 Kansas State, at #39 Missouri

Kansas State Wildcats

RPI Rank: 6 SOS Rank: 10 Record: 22-4 (10-3)
Conference: Big 12

Quality Wins: at #12 Baylor, #14 Xavier, #18 Texas A&M, #22 Texas, vs #43 Dayton, at #44 UNLV, at #51 Texas Tech

Losses: vs #60 Mississippi, at #39 Missouri, #31 Oklahoma State, #1 Kansas

vs top 10: 0-1, 0-0
vs top 25: 4-1, 1-0
vs top 50: 6-3, 3-1
vs top 100: 7-4, 4-2
vs 100+: 15-0, 6-0

Remaining Games: #39 Missouri, at #1 Kansas, #118 Iowa State

Kentucky Wildcats

RPI Rank: 3 SOS Rank: 45 Record: 26-1 (11-1)
Conference: Southeastern

Quality Wins: at #15 Vanderbilt, #15 Vanderbilt, #20 Tennessee, vs #40 Connecticut, #42 Louisville, at #45 Florida, at #58 Mississippi St., #60 Mississippi, #77 Sam Houston St., #93 Georgia, #98 Morehead St.

Losses: at #82 South Carolina

vs top 10: 0-0, 0-0
vs top 25: 3-0, 1-0
vs top 50: 6-0, 3-0
vs top 100: 11-1, 4-1
vs 100+: 15-0, 6-0

Remaining Games: #82 South Carolina, at #20 Tennessee, at #93 Georgia, #45 Florida

Purdue Boilermakers

RPI Rank: 7 SOS Rank: 44 Record: 24-3 (12-3)
Conference: Big Ten

Quality Wins: #5 West Virginia, #17 Wisconsin, vs #20 Tennessee, #21 Wake Forest, at #27 Michigan St., at #30 Ohio State, at #64 Illinois, #64 Illinois, #81 Minnesota, at #81 Minnesota, #89 Buffalo

Losses: #92 Northwestern, #30 Ohio State, at #17 Wisconsin

vs top 10: 1-0, 0-0
vs top 25: 4-1, 1-1
vs top 50: 6-2, 3-1
vs top 100: 11-3, 5-1
vs 100+: 13-0, 6-0

Remaining Games: #27 Michigan St., #216 Indiana, at #200 Penn St.

Syracuse Orange

RPI Rank: 4 SOS Rank: 12 Record: 26-2 (13-2)
Conference: Big East

Quality Wins: at #5 West Virginia, at #9 Georgetown, #9 Georgetown, vs #24 California, #40 Connecticut, vs #45 Florida, #49 Cornell, at #52 Seaton Hall, #54 Marquette, at #59 Cincinnati, #67 South Florida, #68 Oakland, #69 Memphis, at #72 Notre Dame

Losses: #42 Louisville, #11 Pittsburgh

vs top 10: 3-0, 2-0
vs top 25: 4-1, 3-0
vs top 50: 7-2, 4-0
vs top 100: 14-2, 7-0
vs 100+: 11-0, 3-0

Remaining Games: #8 Villanova, #74 St. John’s, at #42 Louisville

Villanova Wildcats

RPI Rank: 8 SOS Rank: 38 Record: 23-4 (12-3)
Conference: Big East

Quality Wins: at #5 West Virginia, #9 Georgetown, vs #29 Maryland, at #42 Louisville, vs #43 Dayton, #52 Seaton Hall, at #54 Marquette, #54 Marquette, vs #60 Mississippi, #67 South Florida, #72 Notre Dame, at #74 St. John’s

Losses: #40 Connecticut, at #13 Temple, at #11 Pittsburgh, at #9 Georgetown

vs top 10: 2-1, 1-1
vs top 25: 2-3, 1-3
vs top 50: 5-4, 4-3
vs top 100: 12-4, 7-3
vs 100+: 11-0, 4-0

Remaining Games: at #4 Syracuse, at #56 Cincinnati, #5 West Virginia

West Virginia Mountaineers

RPI Rank: 5 SOS Rank: 3 Record: 21-6 (10-5)
Conference: Big East

Quality Wins: #11 Pittsburgh, vs #18 Texas A&M, #30 Ohio State, #42 Louisville, at #52 Seaton Hall, #52 Seaton Hall, vs #61 Marshall, #54 Marquette, #60 Mississippi, at #67 South Florida, at #74 St. John’s, vs #85 Portland, #87 Duquense,

Losses: at #72 Notre Dame, at #40 Connecticut, at #11 Pittsburgh, #8 Villanova, at #7 Purdue, #4 Syracuse

vs top 10: 0-3, 0-1
vs top 25: 2-4, 1-2
vs top 50: 4-5, 1-3
vs top 100: 13-6, 6-4
vs 100+: 8-0, 5-0

Remaining Games: #59 Cincinnati, #9 Georgetown, at #8 Villanova

Other teams considered
New Mexico: Mountain West Conf. doesn’t do enough for SOS.
Pittsburgh: Not enough schedule left to make up lost ground.
Baylor: 2 bad losses are too many.
Temple: 52nd SOS is not enough and it won’t get any better.
Xavier: Not enough schedule to overcome 7 losses.
Vanderbilt: SEC is not giving them a chance to overcome the 6 losses they have.

And finally my rankings:
I’ve divided them into tiers because they seem to sort themselves out that way. I could see movement within tiers, but would be surprised by movement between tiers.

Tier I
Kansas
Syracuse
Kentucky

Tier II
Purdue
Kansas State
Villanova

Tier III
Duke
Georgetown
West Virginia

That would make Kansas, Syracuse, Kentucky and Purdue the 1 seeds with Kansas State, Villanova, Duke and Georgetown on the 2 lines.

I would like to point out that this is strictly based on the records provided above. It is not an attempt to say which team is better than which right now or which would win on a neutral court. It is simply my judgment on which teams have demonstrated the most over the course of the season.

I primarily used records vs top 25 RPI teams and road records to sort these and mostly broke ties with best wins and worst losses. I did not make any attempt to account for injuries, when particular wins or losses occurred, or any margins of victory. Quite frankly I’m not interested in putting that much effort into this. Anyone who thinks that information would be relevant is free to research it and draw conclusions themselves.