Middle Tennessee State

[Dave in Green]

MTSU (7-2) just handed Mississippi (6-1) its first loss of the season, 65-62. Ole Miss is not a national power. But Pomeroy had them ranked #23 before today's loss. In preseason predictions for the 14-team SEC, Ole Miss was projected to finish 7th and be a borderline NCAA tournament team. This adds a little more value to the win over MTSU, with the Zips moving up about 10 positions in RPI today.

[Dave in Green]

Whenever anyone thinks the Zips' free throw shooting is bad, just go back and check out this video for a reminder of how bad it can get:

[zippy5]

Oops, wrong thread

[MDZip]

MTSU (7-2) just handed Mississippi (6-1) its first loss of the season, 65-62. Ole Miss is not a national power. But Pomeroy had them ranked #23 before today's loss. In preseason predictions for the 14-team SEC, Ole Miss was projected to finish 7th and be a borderline NCAA tournament team. This adds a little more value to the win over MTSU, with the Zips moving up about 10 positions in RPI today.

MAC conference RPI is going to kill the Zips again anyway. Ken Pomeroy is usually a little more generous to the MAC than the actual RPI. Currently he has Ohio and Akron are at #46 and #60 respectively out of 337 teams, but no other MAC team is above 150. Including Akron and Ohio, the MAC composite would be at around 198. Ugh. Include only the MAC West and it's an even uglier 254. Zips would have had to have had a stellar OOC run, looks like March will be the determining factor again. but it should still be a really fun year.