AndShock wrote:We leave: We get a 4, Loyola gets an 11.
We stay: us or Loyola gets an 11
Tell me more how that's a bad move for anyone.
Maybe somebody can do the math on what the RPIs for the league would be if WSU stayed and had the same non-con, and if Loyola and WSU split their conference home and home series. It would look a little more like St. Mary's and Gonzaga in the West Coast, only with Indiana State's RPI around 175 being the worst in the league.
I'm not even so sure the MVC doesn't pass the AAC for 7th highest RPI conference in that case.
So it's not a sure thing that the top of the MVC gets an 11--- with two more Q1 games, the top of the MVC could be a 7 or higher. Gonzaga got a 6 winning a lower ranked conference. Nevada got a 7 at large. Rhode Island got a 7 and St. Bonnies got an 11 as an at large out of a down A10.
The MVC looks very different from the committee's perspective if it had kept the 2016-17 membership. And if ISU had beat Florida on the road last year, they would have danced.