#32 BPI Ranking

[Galway Eagle]

Not sure how espn calculates this but BPI has us at 32 which sounds good to me. Anyone know how accurate this is?

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20163677/surprise-experienced-wichita-state-shockers-top-summer-bpi-update

[Hards Alumni]

It is interesting.

I'll just be patient and wait on Kenpom.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Never been a big fan of BPI. I'm gonna go on record and say the following rankings are way off:

#4 Notre Dame (too high)
#8 Oklahoma (too high)
#21 Arkansas (too high)
#23 Iowa (too high)
#24 Auburn (too high)
#27 Florida (too low)
#29 Ohio State (too high)
#34 Mississippi State (too high)
#35 Mississippi (too high)
#36 Davidson (too high)
#41 Temple (too high)
#43 USC (too low)
NR UCLA (too low)
NR Gonzaga (too low)

[PGsHeroes32]

OSU a true 29 lmao.

Oklahoma hahah

USC and Gonzaga barely ranked and not ranked.

Unreal

[dgies9156]

All in means is that people are waking up to the fact that we may well have something at Marquette.

The Motown Trio, Froling plus strong returning guards in Rowsey and Howard plus emerging really good players in Sam and Hanni and we have the makings of a team.

I was wondering how long it would take before the rest of the world began to notice.

This is ahead of schedule.

[VegasWarrior77]

Not sure how espn calculates this but BPI has us at 32 which sounds good to me. Anyone know how accurate this is?

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20163677/surprise-experienced-wichita-state-shockers-top-summer-bpi-update

Probably has as much credibility as the crystal bowel....

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

All in means is that people are waking up to the fact that we may well have something at Marquette.

The Motown Trio, Froling plus strong returning guards in Rowsey and Howard plus emerging really good players in Sam and Hanni and we have the makings of a team.

I was wondering how long it would take before the rest of the world began to notice.

This is ahead of schedule.

I hope so but BPI is based on an objective formula. So ESPN put some data in a formula and it spit out these rankings.

[MU82]

I hope so but BPI is based on an objective formula. So ESPN put some data in a formula and it spit out these rankings.

The nice thing is that once everybody gets on the court, the ref doesn't pretend to toss the ball, hold it instead, laugh, and say, "I declare XXXXXX the winner because they have the better BPI!"

[The Equalizer]

Comparing BPI, AP and USA Today to the final top 25 rankings, I don't see that BPI is all that far off--they had some misses, but so did AP and USA Today. And they had Michigan and Notre Dame in their preseason top 25, which both AP and USA Today left out.

Team	BPI Pre	Ap Pre	USA pre	AP Final	USA Final
Duke	1	1	1	7	7
Villanova	2	4	3	1	1
Kansas	3	3	2	3	3
North Carolina	4	6	6	5	8
Kentucky	5	4	4	6	5
Oregon	6	5	5	9	9
Purdue	7	15	15	15	15
Louisville	8	13	14	10	10
West Virginia	9	20	18	13	12
NC State	10	unr	unr	unr	unr
Syracuse	11	19	17	unr	unr
Ohio State	12	unr	unr	unr	unr
Virginia	13	8	7	24	23
UCLA	14	16	20	8	6
Arizona	15	10	11	4	5
Michigan	16	unr	unr	23	26
Xavier	17	7	8	unr	unr
Gonzaga	18	14	13	2	2
Indiana	19	11	12	unr	unr
Michigan State	20	12	9	unr	unr
Georgetown	21	unr	unr	unr	urn
Saint Mary's	22	17	19	22	21
Notre Dame	23	unr	unr	14	14
Cincinnati	24	unr	25	18	16
Dayton	25	unr	unr	unr	unr

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

You're chart shows that BPI gets most right but then is way off the deep end on some. NC State finished as a Sub 100 team. Ohio State was barely top 75. Georgetown was barely top 75.

I'm not sure what it is about their formula but there's something that makes it overvalue certain teams by a ton. Decently accurate for most but way off for a few.

[tower912]

Nice.    But it means nothing. 

[source?]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe BPI ignores transfers until they play for their new team but does count high school recruits.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe BPI ignores transfers until they play for their new team but does count high school recruits.

Correct

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

I am hopeful that we will be quite good.

But let's be real, I start each year like that and I don't give up hope until all hope is gone. Such is fandom.

The talent is there this year.

[Jay Bee]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe BPI ignores transfers until they play for their new team but does count high school recruits.

1) appears to be true
2) makes absolutely no sense

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

1) appears to be true
2) makes absolutely no sense

I agree with this analysis

[Hards Alumni]

I agree with this analysis

+1

[fjm]

Sweet! #32?
I'll take an 8 seed this year.

[MUFlutieEffect]

Interesting to consider the offense and defense splits.  Yes, we can all agree BPI isn't perfect, but by this calculation, with the exception of Wake Forest's defense, MU's defense is the lowest ranking of any single side of the ball among the top 30 teams. 

Who would've guessed THAT when we hired floor-slappin' Wojo?!?!

[Loose Cannon]

Interesting to consider the offense and defense splits.  Yes, we can all agree BPI isn't perfect, but by this calculation, with the exception of Wake Forest's defense, MU's defense is the lowest ranking of any single side of the ball among the top 30 teams. 

Who would've guessed THAT when we hired floor-slappin' Wojo?!?!

Keep Guessing.

[Dawson Rental]

Interesting to consider the offense and defense splits.  Yes, we can all agree BPI isn't perfect, but by this calculation, with the exception of Wake Forest's defense, MU's defense is the lowest ranking of any single side of the ball among the top 30 teams.

Who would've guessed THAT when we hired floor-slappin' Wojo?!?!

Just a guess, but maybe that's why MU isn't in the top 30.