2025 ARTICLE 32: FINAL RPI REPORTS

Here are the final RPI reports for 2025, covering the regular season and conference tournaments.

TEAMS

In the teams table, I have the teams in order of their NCAA RPI ranks for the teams through #57.  Based on past history, teams in this group that were not Automatic Qualifiers were the candidates for at large positions.  If you refer to the color-coded columns on the left, you can see which teams were candidates for seeds as well as at large positions.  This year, all the seeds and at large selections fell within these historic candidate ranges.

In addition, the table has columns showing the Committee's NCAA Tournamnent seeding and at large selection decisions, which teams were Automatic Qualifiers, and which teams were disqualified from NCAA Tournament at large positions due to having more losses than wins.  In the Seed or At Large Selection column, 1 = #1 seed, 2 = #2 seed, 3 = #3 seed, 4 = #4 seed, 4.5 = #5 seed, 4.6 = #6 seed, 4.7 = #7 seed, 4.8 = #8 seed, 5 = unseeded Automatic Qualifier, 6 = at large selection, 7 = NCAA RPI top 57 team not getting an at large position, and 8 = NCAA RPI top 57 team disqualified (this year, there weren't any).

For teams with NCAA RPI ranks #58 and poorer, I have them in order of their Balanced RPI ranks.  This makes it easy to identify which teams are in the top 57 using the Balanced RPI but not using the NCAA RPI.

In the Team column, I have highlighted in salmon the teams that are in the NCAA RPI's top 57 but not in the Balanced RPI's top 57.  I have highlighted in green the teams that are in the Balanced RPI's top 57 but not in the NCAA RPI's top 57.

As I have pointed out previously, for the NCAA RPI, there are significant differences between teams' NCAA RPI ranks and their ranks as Strength of Schedule contributors to their opponents' NCAA RPI ratings.  The table shows these ranks.

As a result of the differences between teams' NCAA RPI ranks and their ranks as Strength of Schedule contributors, a team's opponents' average NCAA RPI ranks and the opponents' average ranks as Strength of Schedule contributors also are different.  The table shows these average ranks and also shows for each team the difference between these two numbers.  If the difference between a team's opponents' average NCAA RPI rank and the opponents' average Strength of Schedule contributor rank is positive, then the team's Strength of Schedule is overrated, which means in turn that the team is overrated.  If the difference is negative, then the team's Strength of Schedule is underrated, which means the team is underrated.  I designed the Balanced RPI for the specific purpose of producing team BRPI ranks and ranks as Strength of Schedule contributors under the BRPI formula that are equal.  You can see this equality in the columns to the right of the NCAA RPI columns.

You'll have to scroll to the right to see the right-hand columns.

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