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As for the transfer, having four years means a project just as all freshman all when getting up to speed to the college game.

18. True.we’ll see how strong UH’s opponents schedule and how this teams fare against the other teams.

19. if UHM win out, they win the conference. and that is a good indicator for at least an at-large berth.

Florida 8
UCLA 14
Oregon St 23
Long Beach 28
CSUN 46
Wichita St 71
American 74
Irvine 113
UCSB 124
Davis 136
San Diego St 139
Idaho 148
Bakersfield 196
Cal Poly 207
Fullerton 224
Riverside 288
and UH 32

for instance, right now penn st is #6 in the RPI and rater higher than pepperdine, who is #8. but to boost your own RPI, it’s better to play the lower-rated pepperdine (because they have a win/loss record of 21-4), instead of playing the higher-rated penn st (b/c they’re carrying more losses at 13-9).

loyola and lewis have distinct advantages over hawaii and uci right now. loyola and lewis simply have fewer losses. their own win percentages are both 90% respectively. while hawaii has an 86% win percentage, and uci 85%.

but uci — even though it has one more loss than hawaii — still edges out hawaii in the RPI … at least for now. as vbfan4 mentioned above, hawaii recently played ucsd twice, which has an abysmal record of 1-21. so since hawaii played ucsd twice, then ucsd’s 1-21 record got factored into hawaii’s RPI formula twice! (uci has already played ucsd once, but has one more match against them left in the regular season.)

ultimately, hawaii and uci will play the same conference teams, so their conference RPI numbers should be about the same. but uci has one more advantage — they had a better non-conference schedule than hawaii. recall that uci came to hawaii in the early part of the season, where both hawaii and uci played against penn st and ohio st, which are both generally good RPI teams to play. but uci also played lewis early in the season. although uci lost to lewis, having played them at all will benefit uci. uci is able to factor lewis’ 19-2 win/loss record into uci’s RPI formula.

the RPI doesn’t care about the actual quality of the team that you are playing. it only cares what their win/loss records are.

1 Lewis
2 Loyola Chicago
3 UC Irvine
4 Hawaii
5 Ohio St.

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-men/nc

1 Hawai’i (13) 263 21-3 1

2 Lewis (3) 239 20-2 4

3 Pepperdine (1) 229 21-4 3

4 UC Irvine (1) 223 22-4 5

5 Loyola-Chicago 215 18-2 2