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Looking at the NCAA RPI I feel pretty good about things.  There are teams with better RPIs who will not get seeded above us because they won't have enough top wins.  Dayton and Florida Gulf Coast?  Not gonna host.  Princeton has some decent wins but but they will get treated like the mid-majors usually are, probably.  The key might be the list of 20 teams who could get to host.  We are on it.  Princeton is not.  Neither is Mississippi State.  Cal is on it but if only one of us gets to host, it will be us.  No way Cal gets to host and we do not, not after the conference tournament.  We have better wins.  Unless I am forgetting someone, Cal beat nobody all that great in non-conference, beat ASU in conference and us once.  We beat UConn, ASU, OSU, and beat them twice.  The UA and UO losses hurt but winning the conference title matters.  UW was also on that list and they clearly will not host.  George Washington is on the list too.  Better record than we have but they do not have the same quality of wins.  Texas A&M is also on that list and they now have an RPI of 34.  They won't host over us.  Oklahoma is also on that list and they too have an RPI lower than ours, did not win their conference tournament, and though they beat Baylor, we do have more top wins.  So out of the 20 teams on the possible host list, I count Cal, OK, aTm, UW and George Washington as less likely to host than we are.  I do not know how final that list was meant to be.  Can teams be added?  One would think so.  But even if so, I think we have a good chance to host.  Winning the conference tourney and beating OSU and Cal to do it probably sealed the deal. 

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Looking at the NCAA RPI I feel pretty good about things.  There are teams with better RPIs who will not get seeded above us because they won't have enough top wins.  Dayton and Florida Gulf Coast?  Not gonna host.  Princeton has some decent wins but but they will get treated like the mid-majors usually are, probably.  The key might be the list of 20 teams who could get to host.  We are on it.  Princeton is not.  Neither is Mississippi State.  Cal is on it but if only one of us gets to host, it will be us.  No way Cal gets to host and we do not, not after the conference tournament.  We have better wins.  Unless I am forgetting someone, Cal beat nobody all that great in non-conference, beat ASU in conference and us once.  We beat UConn, ASU, OSU, and beat them twice.  The UA and UO losses hurt but winning the conference title matters.  UW was also on that list and they clearly will not host.  George Washington is on the list too.  Better record than we have but they do not have the same quality of wins.  Texas A&M is also on that list and they now have an RPI of 34.  They won't host over us.  Oklahoma is also on that list and they too have an RPI lower than ours, did not win their conference tournament, and though they beat Baylor, we do have more top wins.  So out of the 20 teams on the possible host list, I count Cal, OK, aTm, UW and George Washington as less likely to host than we are.  I do not know how final that list was meant to be.  Can teams be added?  One would think so.  But even if so, I think we have a good chance to host.  Winning the conference tourney and beating OSU and Cal to do it probably sealed the deal.