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An upset loss was not enough to move Long Beach State from No. 1 in the RPI.
The Beach continued to remain more than one-hundredth of a percentage point ahead of all teams in the latest RPI rankings that the NCAA released on Monday.
This is the third consecutive week Long Beach State is atop of the RPI rankings and comes days after it lost in five games to UC San Diego to end its seven-match winning streak. In addition, the Beach enters the final week of its regular season needing one more win to clinch the Big West regular season championship.
Penn State remains at No. 2 in the recent rankings, while UCLA jumped two spots to No. 3.
Ball State and USC also round out the top five of the RPI.
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.
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
1. Long Beach State – 0.64576
2. Penn State – 0.63487
3. UCLA – 0.61985
4. Ball State – 0.61561
5. USC – 0.59837
6. Hawai’i – 0.59782
7. Loyola – 0.59228
8. UC Santa Barbara – 0.58827
9. Ohio State – 0.56638
10. Lewis – 0.56472
11. Grand Canyon
12. Lincoln Memorial
13. McKendree
14. Pepperdine
15. NJIT
16. UC San Diego
17. Princeton
18. Purdue Fort Wayne
19. Saint Francis
20. BYU
21. Harvard
22. George Mason
23. King
24. Mount Olive
25. North Greenville
26. UC Irvine
27. Stanford
28. Lindenwood
29. Queens
30. Concordia-Irvine
31. Limestone
32.Charleston
33. Emmanuel
34. CSUN
35. St. Francis Brooklyn
36.Belmont Abbey
37. Maryville
38. Daemen
39. Quincy
40. Erskine
41. Sacred Heart
42. Tusculum
43. Long Island
44. Lees-McRae
45. Central State
46. Barton
47. Fort Valley State
48. Fairleigh Dickinson
49. Alderson Broaddus
50. D’Youville
51. Benedict
52. American International
53. Morehouse
54. Kentucky State