Re: 2014-2015 Schedule
Originally Posted by
NDSUstudent
Non-DI games actually help our RPI according to Saul since they don't count, a home game against a bad RPI team is not helpful at all. Getting teams with consistently good RPI's to Fargo is a challenge. That said we should never play more than 2 non-D1s in one season, the committee will ding you if you load up on them.
To get an at-large it takes a combination of record, RPI, SOS, quality wins(top 50 especially) and few to no bad losses. Getting top 50 wins is really the most vital part, it shows the committee that you can beat tournament teams.
Just look at SFA this year, great record but no really good wins and a bad SOS....they had no shot an at-large.
I think he is referring to exhibition games. This past year Concordia was an exhibition and didn't count towards our record. However, DII teams Viterbo and Valley City State counted toward our overrall record. Now, a lot of teams play DII's because you can count 2 of them so that is not unusual. I agrre that I doubt that really hurts our RPI that much. I would rather play someone else but I can see the advantages of playing teams like Valley City, Mayville, Jamestown, and such. It gives us some good warm up games that we should hopefully win easily as well as giving the other schools in North Dakota a chance to play a DI team.
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