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MRI2006: Week 13 - Major Upsets

February 19, 2007  |  By Benjamin Miraski

As I mentioned in last week's rankings, I see this as a nine or ten team race to the championship. The main question will be who can survive that long.

This week saw the three biggest upsets in the MRI to date. Two of these were losses by teams in the very elite squad at the top of the MRI standings. North Carolina and Texas A&M both lost this week, and while the games that were considered upsets may not have caused waves throughout the basketball world, they definitely were noticed by the computer.

Yes, North Carolina is quite a bit ahead in the standings at this point in the season, but they also have been coming back to the crowd as of late with losses and also poor play. While the MRI would have them as the clear favorite to run the table in the tournament, we have seen that they can be beat.

Here is something else to watch. The Colonial conference now has two teams in the Top 25 of the MRI. Does that mean they are locks for multiple tournament bids at this point? There is definitely some talk of that happening, but it is far from secure at this point. Point of note: Only one Top 25 MRI team has failed to make the tournament. If both the Rams and the Monarchs survive through in the elite top, it would sure be a shock if they didn't get in.

Check out all the rankings in week 13 of the MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
North Carolina
23-4
216.32
1
2
Kansas
23-4
182.41
4
3
Florida
24-3
176.09
2
4
Memphis
23-3
173.24
3
5
Texas A&M
22-4
166.30
5
6
Ohio State
24-3
161.11
6
7
Wisconsin
26-2
160.66
8
8
UCLA
22-3
153.00
9
9
Pittsburgh
23-4
149.47
7
10
Georgetown
20-5
139.10
11
11
Duke
20-7
138.69
10
12
Air Force
22-4
135.68
14
13
Michigan State
19-8
130.88
25
14
Maryland
20-7
125.94
NR(27)
15
Arizona
17-9
123.67
12
16
Villanova
17-8
122.17
16
17
Notre Dame
20-6
122.06
17
18
Xavier
19-7
120.62
19
19
Clemson
19-7
120.39
13
20
Marquette
20-7
117.67
15
21
Old Dominion
21-7
115.94
NR(31)
22
BYU
19-6
115.32
NR(28)
23
Virginia Commonwealth
22-6
115.17
22
24
Butler
22-4
115.10
23
25
Missouri State
18-9
114.28
18

Teams Dropped From The Top 25:
Indiana (LW #20, TW #27), Kentucky (LW #21, TW #28), Connecticut (LW #24, TW #29)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
26
Georgia Tech
17-9
112.71
29
27
Indiana
17-7
112.15
20
28
Kentucky
18-8
111.83
21
30
Texas
19-7
111.68
42
33
Illinois
19-9
110.60
32
38
Purdue
17-9
103.18
46
43
Boston College
18-8
100.92
36
44
Florida State
17-10
100.38
39
45
Tennessee
18-9
99.88
40
54
Michigan
18-9
95.68
45
57
Washington
16-10
91.07
49
62
LSU
14-12
85.70
55
68
Vanderbilt
17-8
80.39
79
73
Drexel
19-7
78.36
67
75
Texas Tech
17-10
78.22
75
78
Pennsylvania
16-8
74.55
92
91
Iowa
15-11
66.57
80
103
Dayton
16-9
58.16
93
105
Northern Iowa
15-12
55.08
102
106
Ohio
15-10
54.65
89
117
Auburn
13-13
50.61
106
144
Miami
10-16
39.46
146
187
Illinois-Chicago
10-17
18.64
200
207
Ball State
9-17
10.98
199
291
Wofford
6-17
-29.59
291

Last Place this week: North Florida (0-25) at -100.35. 4th week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: Akron gained 17.89 points (Beat Ohio and Austin Peay)
Biggest Loss this week: Texas San Antonio lost 20.26 points (Lost to Texas Arlington and Texas State)

Conference rankings this week: ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big East, Big 12, PAC-10, MVC, Mountain West, C-USA, WAC, Atlantic 10

The MRI Rankings are copyright 2007 by MRISports.com. Ben Miraski writes for MRISports.com and is a featured blogger on FanIQ. Readers can contact Ben at bmiraski@mrisports.com

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Posted February 19, 2007 10:49 PM

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