Marquette's Higest RPI

[rocky_warrior]

Just curious if anyone remembers what Marquette's highest RPI ranking has been.  Of course, it's pretty meaningless early in the season, so lets say after 20 games or so.  Like right now we're ranked #16.  At the end of the FF year we were at #10, but I think we may have been up to #8 in that year (not sure though).  Would that be our highest?

As much as the RPI may be flawed, I actually like using our RPI ranking better than the "human" rankings because at least there's some science behind it.  OK...the human system would probably be very good if everyone voting actually researched teams, but that doesn't happen these days.

[Mayor McCheese]

I still remember watching an interview on tv when they were interviewing some heisman winner (a bit off topic), but the interviewer asked him who he was voting for this year, and he goes "I really like that Troy guy at Ohio St, whats his name, Troy Brown?"  If you don't know his name how are you going to vote for him?  I hate some of the people they let vote, they don't watch the games, just what ESPN says and then picks that guy, garbage, although I think Troy Smith was the best candidate, I found it funny that Colt Brennan from Hawaii wasn't even in the top 3 after breaking the Passing TD record in a season.

[ChicosBailBonds]

CollegeRpi archives all the rankings day to day for the last 10 years.

They don't rank after the the Tournament starts either, yet they do include the conference tournaments.  So that 2003 final RPI includes our loss to UAB in the first round of the CUSA Tournament, but not the wins over Pitt, Kentucky, Mizzou and Holy Cross.

According to the March 10th, 2003 RPI our ranking was 7th.

[herboturbo]

I dont know the midmajority uses for thier listings but they actually have our 2002-03 final rpi at 27 and our highest the last 10 years was in 2000-01 at 7. 

[mutpm]

There is no way our 2000-01 RPI was 7.  That team finished 15-14 and didn't even make it to the NIT.  Maybe 7 was the SOS that year.

[herboturbo]

I remember a few years ago that Georgia got in at something like 16-14 because they had the no. 1 or 2 RPI,  back then the formula was different.