First off, I know it's not going to happen.
I think we can all agree the top 8 are in. Lunardi has them pretty comfortably in, only Texas is in the last 4 in, and they have a top 50 RPI with 5 group 1 wins and 3 group 2 wins. I think they are pretty safe actually.
That brings us to OSU.
http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2018/team-sheet?team=Oklahoma-State
They have a horrible RPI of 89. However, they have the same record vs. group 1 as Texas and a better record against group 2. The only difference between UT's and OSU's resume is UT played way more group 3 teams, and OSU played just a terrible noncon.
If they ignore the RPI # and just look at the good wins, they have as good of a record as a lot of teams that will be on the bubble.
I think we can all agree the top 8 are in. Lunardi has them pretty comfortably in, only Texas is in the last 4 in, and they have a top 50 RPI with 5 group 1 wins and 3 group 2 wins. I think they are pretty safe actually.
That brings us to OSU.
http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2018/team-sheet?team=Oklahoma-State
They have a horrible RPI of 89. However, they have the same record vs. group 1 as Texas and a better record against group 2. The only difference between UT's and OSU's resume is UT played way more group 3 teams, and OSU played just a terrible noncon.
If they ignore the RPI # and just look at the good wins, they have as good of a record as a lot of teams that will be on the bubble.