The word coming from the NCAA was that SB was a 7 seed and because of not being able to play in state of NC they had to be placed in different side of bracket How in the world did Louisville get in with an extremely high RPI
Louisville had low RPI but they had two quality wins, one (vs #7 Syracuse) came on last regular season game and had no significant losses.
Of teams with better RPI:
Hopkins had better RPI but didn't have a significant win. Loyola had no significant wins and lost to Navy. Duke was disqualified because of their record. Denver had a relatively low RPI and lost to unranked Georgetown in the regular season and no significant wins. Temple had no significant wins and one bad loss. Delaware had one significant win and two bad losses. Lehigh had no significant wins and one bad loss.
Top 20, VA Tech lost their last 6 and had a lower RPI.
Great to play a challenging schedule but you have to win at least one of them along the way. (Albany, Elon, Towson, NW). Towson was fortunate to have wins vs ND and Hopkins. Their losses to Hofstra and Elon the last few weeks could have hurt them without those.
