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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3386090, member: 6927"] The cupcake padding is part of a generalized pathology of weak OOC scheduling among "power" conference teams. Unfortunately, what allows many of them to get away with it is the very fact that so many of them are doing it. SOS is a comparative ranking, after all, so unless a team's nonconference schedule is truly horrendous a la Texas Tech, they can usually still get their RPI in range if they do well enough in their conference. A couple months ago I contrasted the OOC scheduling between volleyball and basketball, and it's really striking how the OOC scheduling standards are much higher in volleyball -- probably due to the fact that the volleyball RPI includes incentives for strong scheduling and penalties for very weak scheduling -- and most of the elite volleyball programs go out of their way to schedule elite opponents in the OOC. I'd like to see the WBB committee adopt similar incentives and penalties. [/QUOTE]