The Atlantic 10 and NCAA RPI III

The NCAA released its second official RPI of the year and here is how the A10 stacked up as individual teams out of 289 teams in Division 1 softball.

41 Fordham
59 UMass
114 St. Joseph's
140 Temple142 St. Louis
170 Charlotte
192 Dayton
224 George Washington
265 Rhode Island
267 St. Bonaventure
276 La Salle


So what does this mean for the A10 teams? Well not too much for anyone other than Fordham and now UMass. The Minutewomen have been slowly creeping up the RPI and if they keep this pace up they could end up with an at large, however they are still very far away from that. Fordham, on the other hand is moving in the opposite direction and if the Rams cannot get things going in the right direction soon they could play themselves out of an at large bid. No other team is within striking distance for a bid, though a couple teams are near that bottom spot in the RPI of 289.


Does this sound familiar? Well it is because nothing really changed RPI wise. It is concerning however that La Salle has inched closer to that bottom RPI mark


So how does the A10 stack up against other conferences?


 1 Pac-10 21.75 
 2 Big 12 24.7 
 3 SEC 49.7 
 4 Big Ten 59.1 
 5 ACC 72.1 
 6 CUSA 76 
 7 Sun Belt 86.3 
 8 Mountain West 93.5 
 9 Big East 106 
 10 Big West 106.2 
 11 Atlantic Sun 124.6 
 12 WAC 125.6 
 13 Missouri Valley 135.4 
 14 Southland 143.8 
 15 Mid-American 146.9 
 16 Horizon 147.4 
 17 Southern 154.7 
 18 Big South 162.7 
 19 OVC 168.7 
 20 A10 171.8 
 21 CAA 177.3 
 22 America East 182.8 
 23 Summit 187.7 
 24 Northeast 197.9 
 25 Ivy 198.8 
 26 Pacific Coast 211 
 27 Independent 220.1 
 28 Metro-Atlantic 223.1 
 29 Patriot 227.3 
 30 Mid-Eastern 249.3 
 31 SWAC 265.8  


The A10 dropped down to number 20 out of 31 conferences. This shows that the A10 needs to improve non conference results. Every game has consequences and there is no time for anyone to take a game off.