2012-13 Schedule

[bradley center bat]

It came out today. ESPN2 @ 5PM

[robmufan]

YES!

[bilsu]

Not sure how I feel about Butler, RPI-wise.  Who your opponents play is a significant factor in your own RPI.  Butler now being in the A-10 will be an improvement over their usual Horizon opponents but also may lead to more Dawg losses; Butler's OOC schedule is pretty decent with match-ups against Vandy (A), I-4 (N) & Gonzaga (H), but games with IUPUI, Northwestern, Penn, UNO (aren't they D-III now?), & Elon leave a bit to be desired.

Frankly, even a mediocre Illinois or Miss State team might have a better RPI this year than a good Butler team, or they may not... only time will tell.

Illinois and Mississippi St will not be NCAA tournament teams. I Think Butler will be, so this is the better team to play for our schedule.

[Benny B]

Illinois and Mississippi St will not be NCAA tournament teams. I Think Butler will be, so this is the better team to play for our schedule.

I assume you're correlating an NCAA at-large bid with a good RPI; if so, you could simply say "I think Butler is a better opponent because Butler will have a better RPI than Miss State and Illinois."  I'm not going to disagree with that because I honestly have no clue where these teams' RPI's will come in seven months from now.

However, just saying Butler will make the tournament and MSU and UI won't be in the tournament doesn't necessarily make Butler the better team to play... Butler could have a 90 RPI and get in the tournament as an AQ while MSU and UI could be sitting home with RPI's in the low 50's.  In that case, I would have rather played the higher-ranked RPI teams.