Lowly Zips Not a Headliner

[Captain Kangaroo]

Shock the World?

[ZachTheZip]

Let's look at the RPIs of the supposed headliner teams compared to Akron's RPI.Akron: 99Auburn: 64NC State: 111UCF: 164Akron should be favored to win against all the teams we're matched up against here.Looks like Auburn is the only team that legitimately can claim to be a headliner over Akron. UCF shouldn't even be mentioned. Niagara is also playing in the tourney with an RPI of 49, which is much better than any other team in the field.

[johnnyzip84]

I think I know the problem at the Orlando Sentinel, and it's NOT residual bad blood from the Eastern Conference Finals. No it's something different entirely. They STILL think Zeke is attending the University of Arizona ZN Link

[g-mann17]

Let's look at the RPIs of the supposed headliner teams compared to Akron's RPI.Akron: 99Auburn: 64NC State: 111UCF: 164Akron should be favored to win against all the teams we're matched up against here.Looks like Auburn is the only team that legitimately can claim to be a headliner over Akron. UCF shouldn't even be mentioned. Niagara is also playing in the tourney with an RPI of 49, which is much better than any other team in the field.

That is one way to look at it. The other way is like this...It was an Orlando Sentinel article and UCF is in Orlando. Auburn and NC State represent the SEC and ACC respectively. Local school and the area power conferences far outweigh RPI when making a headline.

[ziptrumpet87]

Let's look at the RPIs of the supposed headliner teams compared to Akron's RPI.Akron: 99Auburn: 64NC State: 111UCF: 164Akron should be favored to win against all the teams we're matched up against here.Looks like Auburn is the only team that legitimately can claim to be a headliner over Akron. UCF shouldn't even be mentioned. Niagara is also playing in the tourney with an RPI of 49, which is much better than any other team in the field.

That is one way to look at it. The other way is like this...It was an Orlando Sentinel article and UCF is in Orlando. Auburn and NC State represent the SEC and ACC respectively. Local school and the area power conferences far outweigh RPI when making a headline.

UCF lost their star scorer to the NBA draft. They have a sophmore C who is 7-4, 300# from Poland; otherwise they have only 1 Sr and 3 Jr's.

[zipdiehard]

wasn't Central Florida the school that came into the lowly MAC to dominate in football?

[zippyman23]

That is one way to look at it. The other way is like this...It was an Orlando Sentinel article and UCF is in Orlando. Auburn and NC State represent the SEC and ACC respectively. Local school and the area power conferences far outweigh RPI when making a headline.

Agree. This is the real reason the title was written the way it was. Not a big deal.

[skip-zip]

Let's look at the RPIs of the supposed headliner teams compared to Akron's RPI.Akron: 99Auburn: 64NC State: 111UCF: 164Akron should be favored to win against all the teams we're matched up against here.Looks like Auburn is the only team that legitimately can claim to be a headliner over Akron. UCF shouldn't even be mentioned. Niagara is also playing in the tourney with an RPI of 49, which is much better than any other team in the field.

That is one way to look at it. The other way is like this...It was an Orlando Sentinel article and UCF is in Orlando. Auburn and NC State represent the SEC and ACC respectively. Local school and the area power conferences far outweigh RPI when making a headline.

Just like we see during post-season tournament selections, having the "names" seems to mean everything to these folks. And until we become a "name", this is how it goes.