Originally Posted by baldbear

AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS (14)


RPI

SOS

T10

T11-20

T21-20

31+ L

Maryland 1 4 3-1 4-0 5-0 —
Boston College 3 17 1-0 2-0 5-0 —
James Madison 4 7 1-1 2-0 2-0 —
Florida 5 2 1-2 4-1 0-0 —
Penn 6 11 0-2 3-0 3-0 —
Stony Brook 8 41 2-0 1-0 3-0 —
Loyola 10 8 1-1 3-2 1-0 —
Colorado 14 27 0-2 2-0 1-2 —
High Point 24 51 0-2 0-0 2-0 —
Massachusetts 27 46 0-1 1-0 0-1 Yale (31)
Jacksonville 42 88 0-1 0-1 0-1 —
Marist 49 68 0-0 0-0 0-2 Yale (31), La Salle (72)
Wagner 71 97 0-0 0-0 0-0 Saint Joseph's (35), Hofstra (51), Iona (74), UMass Lowell (88)
Furman 80 62 0-0 0-1 0-1 Jacksonville (42), Vanderbilt (43), Davidson (47), San Diego State (66), Iona (74), Campbell (76)
Maryland is the top seed because of its superior RPI and high strength-of-schedule. The Terps have the most Top 10 wins (3) and Top 20 wins (7). … Boston College has rolled along with few obstacles, having already matched their program high for conference wins (5) with two games to play. A win over Virginia Tech this weekend sews up the ACC regular season title. … JMU’s profile is worthy of a Top 4 team with the lone loss coming to No. 1 Maryland. …

Florida has the second most Top 20 wins in the nation (5). … Penn won the battle of unbeaten Ivies against Dartmouth to take sole possession of first. … One of the final two undefeated teams remaining, Stony Brook is crushing its America East competition and its RPI is taking a hit, dropping to No. 8. Nevertheless, SBU’s profile will keep them in the Top 3 unless they lose. … Loyola bounced back from its loss to Syracuse with a comeback victory over Navy to take the Patriot League lead. …

Colorado gets the nod over Stanford for the Pac-12’s projected automatic bid due to its superior RPI and head-to-head meeting earlier this year. … High Point has more wins against ACC foes (2) than Syracuse and Louisville combined (0). The Panthers are up to No. 24 in the RPI. … UMass is tied atop the A-10 with Richmond, but is one spot ahead of the Spiders in this week’s RPI release. The Minutewomen have a marginal at-large profile with an early win over Dartmouth as its highlight. … Jacksonville is the lone unbeaten in the Atlantic Sun and is the heavy favorite to win the league again. …

Marist eked out an 8-7 win over Quinnipiac to remain the last undefeated MAAC squad. They travel to league favorite Canisus today. … NEC play only began recently and Wagner’s 2-0 start is good enough for the projected automatic bid. … The Southern Conference has Furman and Central Michigan on the board without a loss and Furman’s higher RPI (80) trumps the Chippewas (93). It will be mighty difficult for the SoCon winner to avoid the play-in game.
All this is very nice and well thought out. The only problem is that all AQ's go to conference Champions. Even if Maryland wins every game and loses the Big 10 championship to lets say Pen State, then it's Pen State that gets the AQ. Maryland would still get in with an "at large" bid and could still be ranked, But Pen State gets the AQ