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There was no drop in the RPI for Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon following two more losses during the weekend remained at No. 5 in the latest RPI rankings that the NCAA released Monday.
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.
Along with Grand Canyon, the top five in the new RPI remains unchanged from last week.
Ohio State made the biggest jump in the new rankings moving three spots to No. 6. With this climb, Ohio State surpassed both BYU and UC Irvine in 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 10)
1. UCLA – 0.67238
2. Hawai’i – 0.66302
3. Penn State – 0.65247
4. Long Beach State – 0.63209
5. Grand Canyon – 0.60526
6. Ohio State – 0.59538
7. BYU – 0.59482
8. Ball State – 0.59421
9. UC Irvine – 0.58784
10. Loyola – 0.58037
11. Stanford
12. Charleston
13. Princeton
14. Pepperdine
15. Concordia
16. Purdue Fort Wayne
17. Daemen
18. George Mason
19. CSUN
20. Lincoln Memorial
21. Lewis
22. USC
23. Lindenwood
24. Long Island
25. Saint Francis
26. Queens
27. UC Santa Barbara
28. North Greenville
29. NJIT
30. Limestone
31. UC San Diego
32. Edward Waters
33. Harvard
34. King
35. McKendree
36. Central State
37. Quincy
38. Erskine
39. Mount Olive
40. Belmont Abbey
41. St. Francis Brooklyn
42. Sacred Heart
43. D’Youville
44. Lees-McRae
45. Barton
46. Merrimack
47. Tusculum
48. Emmanuel
49. Missouri S&T
50. Benedict
51. Fairleigh Dickinson
52. Maryville
53. Fort Valley State
54. Alderson Broaddus
55. American International
56. Kentucky State
57. Morehouse