(03-20-2017 12:30 PM)Chappy Wrote:  

(03-20-2017 12:16 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Yes it can, all they have to do is have each conference team play the worst of the worst in D-I, play a few other major conference teams then play each other in conference. The middle-tier conferences would be starved out. The A-10 and a few AAC schools would be fine due to location and need for quick road trips but everyone else could be in trouble finding good games.

If you play the worst of the worst in D1, when those schools finish at the bottom of their lowly ranked conferences, then your RPI will indeed suffer.

You'd need to play the best of the worst, or the schools that wind up with 22 wins in their lowly ranked conferences.

That's cancelled out by the fact that teams would be playing other teams with good records. When you schedule a buy game against a SWAC, MEAC or NEC school you have little risk of losing. Even if your RPI suffers, you have a chance to pick up quality wins in conference and the committee evaluates how many RPI top 50, top 25, etc... wins you have. So there's little downside as long as you don't go overboard in scheduling too many.