Time to catch up with the weekly standings. The AP poll doesn’t come out until later in the day so I’ll update it when it comes out. update:The AP came out and there was no change from last week. They are effectivley 27th with 106 votes. UK jumped one spot to 24th in the ESPN poll. They were bumped up in both the Sagarin from 9th to 7th and the Pomeroy polls from 14th to 13th. The RPI drops them two spots from 7th to 9th.
There is a three-way tie in the SEC East at second place. Georgia, Vandy, and Kentucky are all 5-2 with steamroller Florida all alone in first at 6-0. Kentucky jumped a spot in scoring in the SEC and dropped a spot in defense.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
That’s good info. What all goes into RPI besides strength of schedule and wins? Does UK have the highest RPI in the conference?
January 29th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I would post it here but since it’s so long i’ll just link to it. Here is how the RPI is calculated.
And yes Kentucky does have the highest RPI in the SEC. Here’s the list along with corresponding RPI’s. These are also compiled from kenpom.com Overall as a conference the SEC has the second highest RPI.
Kentucky 7
Florida 19
Tennessee 21
Arkansas 22
Alabama 34
Georgia 38
Vanderbilt 58
South Carolina 64
Louisiana St. 74
Mississippi 81
Mississippi St. 87
Auburn 101
January 30th, 2007 at 10:20 am
thanks for the info, interesting stuff, I thought LSU’s would be higher.