Here is the best bracketology resource:  http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm 

It is a composite ranking of 95 bracketology sites. It averages them all to one field. 

It is nice that Lunardi considers us a "Bubble" team, but if you look at his bracket math and which teams he chose you will notice in the 12 teams he left out we are almost last.  So still a lot of work to try to jump 11 places and into that at-large pool. 

Our OOC schedule hurt a lot less than losing to EMU and Toledo.   Job one should be getting the best possible home-and-homes that we can.   We need to get some quality teams into the Convo.  We should also do whatever we need to do to get back in the Preseason NIT or some other marquee tournament. And stop scheduling more than one team that you know is going to have a +250 RPI.

That's a solid home lineup. And I've heard suggestions we're going to take aim at some bigger targets next year.

I hope we notice what Long Beach State has done this year. Their OOC schedule included losses against Kansas, Kansas State, UNC, Louisville, and SDSU, and wins against Pitt, Xavier, and Auburn. They are 21-7 and 13-0 in conference play. They have a comfortable RPI in the 30s and an SOS more than 100 spots higher than we do, and they're playing all those Cal States and UC-whomevers in conference.

The argument against this would be to look at Miami. How often does Miami really have the horses and system to win these games? Yeah, they almost beat UCLA and Kentucky, but they've also been smoked by Duke, Kansas, and West Virginia. None of LBSU's losses were laughers - the worst was 17 points against K-State. But no one talks about their losses. Everyone remembers that they beat Pitt, and they're in comfortable shape heading into tournament play.

In the RPI, no. However, I remember seeing in-game updates all night on Sportscenter. When they won, people took notice. Look at our 07-08 season. We had games against Kansas, St. John's and Maryland and we beat the latter two. While that was a young St. John's team, we beat a solid Maryland squad. Had we only scheduled Kansas, well, look how that turned out. This year, I'm sure we are capable of beating several BCS teams, but all we have is that Louisville loss. My point is the more of these games we schedule when we have the horses to make it competitive, the more likely we are to get a win here and there. And maybe that can prepare us for an undefeated MAC run like LBSU has this year.

What would their RPI be if they were 10-4 in conference with losses to Cal Poly SLO and Cal Riverside (the Big West equivalent of EMU and Toledo)?

No, it doesn't.