Originally posted by lawpoke87:
Please show me where the NCAA says the RPI is the primary tool they us for their selection criteria?
Greg Shaheen was on the pregame show for UConn-SMU and stated that the committee prefers RPI because they would rather not broach the philosophical discussion raised by a margin-of-victory system. More importantly, the NCAA publishes RPI daily on their website, posts RPI selection sheets for every team, and puts on a mock selection exercise that media members have written about extensively in opposition of how much they emphasize RPI:
"R.P.I.'s fingerprints were all over the process. When a computer monitor displayed the teams that we were considering for the bubble, the R.P.I. ranking was listed suggestively alongside them. The color-coded "nitty gritty" worksheets that the committee has developed, and which often frame the discussion about the bubble teams, use the R.P.I. rankings to sort out the good wins and the bad losses."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/sports/ncaabasketball/rpi-may-belong-outside-the-ncaa-tournament-bubble.html?_r=0
"Every "nitty gritty" page the NCAA uses, every fact and figure and list of top 50 wins and strength of schedule and noncon SOS and you name it is broken down based on RPI[/I]. You can't sit in the selection room and not[/I] be affected by RPI. It underpins every consideration the committee makes, whether the committee always knows it or not."
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/48853/ncaas-rpi-line-as-tired-as-ever
"The NCAA allows (but from what I interpreted, does not heartily endorse) any Selection Committee member to use
Massey or any type of ratings system (including - WHAT - theCoaches' Poll[/I]? It's true, unfortunately). Those systems are not brought up on the big screen, unless by request, which never happened at our mock.
I'm guessing its seldom a Pomeroy team page will get clicked to the projector screen this year, too, especially since it's now subscription-based, and that $20 annual fee might be a touch too much.
The RPI is the peanut butter that keeps the primary data smudged together for the Selection Committee. It still permeates the process. And the NCAA still wants to deny that. The NCAA likes to say bringing up a team's specific RPI ranking doesn't often come up when debating two teams' inclusion or seeding. While that's true, from the outset, the organization, presentation and general data on a team is dressed up in an RPI shirt with an RPI hat and a cute pair of RPI gloves."
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/34887185