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Message: [QUOTE="UConnRock, post: 2621633, member: 1024"] Syracuse lucked out with Buffalo and St. Bona on their OOC schedule as those two teams along with Kansas strengthened their OOC strength of schedule. Regardless of the fact that 'cuse lost to both Kansas and St. Bona. The funny part is that Kansas bumped up the Syracuse OOC strength which was seen as valuable by the committee, while Oklahoma St. beat that same Kansas team twice. OK State played a very weak OOC with 7 over 200 RPI and 4 over 300 and lost none of those games. However, those games put their OOC strength in the toilet which greatly impacted their RPI. The RPI puts far too much value in playing teams in the 120-150 range and penalizes teams that play too many OOC games above 200. remember SMU getting hosed because of their bad OOC schedule in pervious years. OK St. was 10-0 against teams with a 100 RPI or above. Their worst RPI loss was to #68 Baylor. Syracuse was 12-2 against 100 RPI or above with losses to Wake (160) and Ga Tech (161) also had losses to BC (96) and ND (70). Another funny quirk. Ok St. has Pitt (RPI of 217) on their OOC schedule so Pitt brought down their OOC strength. Syracuse gets 2 wins against the same Pitt team but they get lumped into the conference schedule for Syracuse. Lowest rated Big 12 team was Iowa St. at 144. ACC has Pitt (217), Ga. Tech (161) and Wake (160). 'Cuse was 3-2 against those teams. [/QUOTE]