(05-12-2014 10:25 AM)CajunAmos Wrote:  

(05-11-2014 09:47 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  11 SEC teams -- my goodness.

I was hoping South Alabama could get a top 16 seed and host.

RPI is the king now in the regional selection process. If you're not in the top 16, you basically have no shot. In the Sun Belt, you have to stack the OOC schedule as much as possible to have a shot at a top 16 RPI. Sometime even that doesn't work.

The Cajuns went 52-4 a couple of years back (possibly one of their best teams in history personnel wise) with the #1 OOC RPI in the country and in the top 5 in all the polls but the conference games moved their RPI back to #12. They were seeded down to the #13 regional and had to to to Tempe for the SR against the AzSt team that won the championship the year before. Won the first one and lost the next two.

South Alabama finished with the #18 RPI. Had the Jaguars beaten Louisiana on Saturday, South Alabama would have finished with the #15 RPI and would be hosting this weekend.

Brian