As is usual, Thursday night's games represented a mixed bag of results for K-State's RPI and SOS.
Positives included North Florida climbing back to .500 in conference play, UMKC's double-overtime survival of IUPUI, Virginia Tech's surprisingly dominant win at Maryland and Washington State's crushing of Arizona State.
I suppose you could lump Florida's 45-40 victory at Auburn in there, too, but I didn't because it was one of the ugliest basketball games I've ever witnessed in my life.
The Gators set a new record-low for scoring in the Billy Donovan era and set offensive basketball back about 50 years with their 2-of-21 mark from 3-point range with two minutes remaining in the game.
Like Florida, Gonzaga trailed for most of the game in its visit to Santa Clara, a place from which the Bulldogs have escaped several times before with narrow victories. Well, when you play with fire too much, you eventually get burned.
This time, the fire-starter was Broncos guard Kevin Foster, who scored a career-high 36 points on 11-of-20 shooting and buried nearly every shot in the final five minutes in blowing open what had been a close game to that point.
A similarly disappointing result was Presbyterian's overtime loss at home to High Point.
Associated Press Ranking = 28
ESPN/USA Today Ranking = 24
Overall Record = 13-6
Big 12 Record = 1-3
RPI = 53
SOS = 26
Signature Wins (RPI 1-30) = none
Quality Wins (RPI 31-100) = James Madison, Virginia Tech, Gonzaga, Washington State
Bad Losses (RPI 101 or greater) = none
- James Madison (15-4, 5-2 CAA) | RPI = 63
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Virginia Tech (12-5, 3-2 ACC) | RPI = 68: Win at Maryland (74-57)
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Presbyterian (8-12, 2-6 Big South) | RPI = 165: Loss to High Point (60-64 in overtime)
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Gonzaga (13-6, 3-1 WCC) | RPI = 55: Loss at Santa Clara (71-85)
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No. 5 Duke (17-1, 4-1 ACC) | RPI = 7
- Texas Southern (7-9, 5-0 SWAC) | RPI = 176
- Emporia State (9-8, 6-5 MIAA*)
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Washington State (14-5, 4-3 Pac-10) | RPI = 58: Win over Arizona State (78-61)
- Alcorn State (1-15, 1-5 SWAC) | RPI = 320
- Loyola-Chicago (11-8, 2-6 Horizon League) | RPI = 185
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Florida (14-4, 3-1 SEC) | RPI = 19: Win at Auburn (45-40)
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UNLV (14-5, 2-3 Mountain West) | RPI = 32
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UMKC (11-8, 4-4 Summit League) | RPI = 220: Win over IUPUI (85-77 in double overtime)
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North Florida (7-12, 4-4 Atlantic Sun) | RPI = 143: Win at Kennesaw State (71-56)
- Savannah State (3-17) | RPI = 297
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Oklahoma State (14-4, 2-2 Big 12) | RPI = 36
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Colorado (14-5, 3-1 Big 12) | RPI = 77
- Texas Tech (8-11, 0-4 Big 12) | RPI = 211
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No. 14 Missouri (16-3, 2-2 Big 12) | RPI = 30
- No. 10 Texas A&M (16-2, 3-1 Big 12) | RPI = 16
- Baylor (12-5, 2-2 Big 12) | RPI = 102
- No. 2 Kansas (18-0, 3-0 Big 12) | RPI = 1
- Nebraska (14-4, 2-2 Big 12) | RPI = 89
- Iowa State (14-5, 1-3 Big 12) | RPI = 88
- Oklahoma (9-9, 1-3 Big 12) | RPI = 189
- No. 11 Texas (15-3, 3-0 Big 12) | RPI = 25
*Division II