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The MIVA regular season champions are moving up the rankings.
Lewis jumped two spots to No. 2 in the latest NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball RPI rankings that the NCAA released on Monday.
The Flyers secured their second consecutive conference regular season championship last week and enter the MIVA Tournament on a nine-match winning streak. While Hawai’i still holds the top spot in the rankings, Lewis moved ahead of BYU for the No. 2 ranking.
A team’s RPI ranking is calculated using a mathematical formula that includes its winning percentage, strength of schedule and opponents’ strength of schedule.
The RPI also is one of the criteria categories the selection committee uses to determine the NCAA Tournament field.
Penn State and Loyola round-out the top five of the RPI rankings. In addition, Daemen after closing out its regular season with an undefeated record moved into the top 10 of the rankings.
An updated RPI rankings will be released each Monday throughout the regular season and conference tournaments. The final RPI rankings before the seven-team NCAA Tournament will be unveiled on Selection Sunday.
RPI rankings (April 4)
1. Hawai’i — .685
2. Lewis — .619
3. BYU — .602
4. Penn State — .600
5. Loyola — .577
6. Long Beach State — .573
7. McKendree — .567
8. Ball State — .565
9. Ohio State — .565
T-10. D’Youville — .563
T-10. Daemen — .563
12. Mount Olive — .556
13. Pepperdine — .553
14. NJIT — .546
15. George Mason — .544
16. North Greenville — .540
17. UC Santa Barbara — .537
18. UCLA — .527
19. Purdue Fort Wayne — .512
20. Belmont Abbey — .503
21. Queens — .503
22. Barton — .499
23. Lincoln Memorial — .499
24. Grand Canyon — .498
25. UC San Diego — .496
26. Limestone — .481
27. Emmanuel — .478
28. King — .476
29. Lindenwood — .460
30. USC — .455
31. Concordia-Irvine — .447
32. Quincy — .443
33. Erskine — .436
34. Saint Francis — .428
35. Charleston — .418
36. Stanford — .417
37. Lees-McRae — .409
38. St. Francis Brooklyn — .404
39. UC Irvine — .388
40. Sacred Heart — .381
41. Tusculum — .371
42. CSUN — .315
43. Alderson Broaddus — .256