RPI WATCH: 3/2/2010

All I will say about Texas is that it at least avoided what would have been a truly epic and embarrassing Senior Day loss.

I suppose Oklahoma is the only team, at this point, that you can sleepwalk against for 25 minutes and still beat them handily. Two more losses, and this miserable excuse for a season finally will be over in Norman. The subsequent off-season promises to be very interesting.

In other news, poor Arkansas-Pine Bluff was so close, and yet so far, to breaking even. Maybe they'll get there in the SWAC Tournament... We're rootin' for ya, Golden Lions!

AP Ranking = 5

ESPN/USA Today Ranking = 5

Overall Record = 24-4

Big 12 Record = 11-3

Projected Big 12 Seed = 2

Projected NCAA Seed = 2

RPI = 5

SOS = 7

Signature Wins (RPI 1-30) = Xavier, Texas A&M, Texas, Baylor

Quality Wins (RPI 31-100) = Dayton, IUPUI, UNLV, Texas Tech, Missouri

Bad Losses (RPI 101 or greater) = none

• Loyola Chicago (14-15, 5-13) | RPI = 208
  
• Western Illinois (13-16, 6-12) | RPI = 278
  
• Boston University (17-12, 11-5) | RPI = 153
  
• Ole Miss (19-9, 7-7) | RPI = 53
  
• Dayton (19-9, 8-6) | RPI = 43
  
• IUPUI (22-9, 15-3) | RPI = 92
  
• No. 15* FHSU (21-5)
  
• Washington State (16-12, 6-10) | RPI = 145
  
• Xavier (21-7, 12-2) | RPI = 18
  
• UNLV (22-7, 10-5) | RPI = 44
  
• Alabama (14-14, 4-10) | RPI = 111
  
• UAPB (13-15, 13-4) | RPI = 194: Loss at Jackson State (57-54)
  
• Cleveland State (15-16, 10-8) | RPI = 164
  
• South Dakota (17-9) | RPI = 222
  
• Missouri (21-8, 9-5) | RPI = 36
  
• No. 22 Texas A&M (20-8, 9-5) | RPI = 13
  
• Colorado (13-15, 4-10) | RPI = 130
  
• Texas (23-7, 9-6) | RPI = 24: Win over Oklahoma (87-76)
  
• Oklahoma State (20-8, 8-6) | RPI = 25
  
• No. 24 Baylor (22-6, 9-5) | RPI = 12
  
• No. 1 Kansas (27-2, 13-1) | RPI = 1
  
• Nebraska (14-15, 2-12) | RPI = 136
  
• Iowa State (14-15, 3-11) | RPI = 127
  
• Oklahoma (13-16, 4-11) | RPI = 106: Loss at Texas (87-76)
  
• Texas Tech (16-12, 4-10) | RPI = 58
  

*Division II Top 25