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Tons of upsets did not result in any movement atop the RPI.
Hawai’i, UC Irvine and UCLA despite suffering losses this weekend maintained their spots in the top five of the latest RPI rankings that the NCAA released on 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. RPI also is one of the criteria categories the selection committee uses to determine the NCAA Tournament field.
Long Beach State after sweeping a two-match series against UC Santa Barbara last week continues to be No. 1 in the RPI rankings. The Beach edged out Hawai’i by three-thousandths percentage points for the top spot in the rankings.
UC Irvine trails Hawai’i by more than one-hundredth of a percentage point for the No. 2 spot in the rankings but holds almost a one-hundredth percentage point advantage ahead of UCLA at No. 4.
Loyola rounds out the top five of the RPI rankings.
USC made the biggest jump at the top of the RPI this week moving two spots to No. 6.
Lincoln Memorial also earned its highest ranking in the RPI this season. The IVA school jumped two spots to No. 10 following road wins against Barton and Mount Olive.
An updated RPI rankings will be released each Monday throughout the regular season and conference tournaments. The final RPI rankings before the nine-team NCAA Tournament will be unveiled on Selection Sunday.
RPI rankings (April 6)
1. Long Beach State
2. Hawai’i
3. UC Irvine
4. UCLA
5. Loyola
6. USC
7. McKendree
8. BYU
9. Grand Canyon
10. Lincoln Memorial
11. UC San Diego
12. CSUN
13. Ohio State
14. Pepperdine
15. Lewis
16. Princeton
17. Mount Olive
18. Ball State
19. UC Santa Barbara
20. Stanford
21. Lindenwood
22. Belmont Abbey
23. Harvard
24. Penn State
25. NJIT
26. George Mason
27. Purdue Fort Wayne
28. Queens
29. Long Island
30. St. Thomas Aquinas
31. Saint Francis
32. Fort Valley State
33. Maryville
34. Tusculum
35. Barton
36. Catawba
37. Daemen
38. Charleston
39. Missouri S&T
40. North Greenville
41. Rockhurst
42. Concordia
43. Merrimack
44. Quincy
45. Sacred Heart
46. Barry
47. Vanguard
48. Menlo
49. Fairleigh Dickinson
50. Edward Waters
51. D’Youville
52. Erskine
53. Thomas More
54. Dominican
55. Emmanuel
56. King
57. Lees-McRae
58. Roberts Wesleyan
59. Roosevelt
60. Central State
61. Benedict
62. Jessup
63. American International
64. Morehouse
65. LeMoyne-Owen
66. Kentucky State