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MRI2006: Week 14 - Status Quo

February 26, 2007

By Benjamin Miraski

Not much has changed here. That is what you really need to know.

But this is also the point where we can start to look at the smaller conference teams and see who might be giant killers in the tournament.

With the standings how they are, you will definitely need to watch out for whoever makes the field from the Colonial conference. Old Dominion and Virginia Commonwealth are positioned so that they could knock out a team which could get a higher seed but is MRI'ed below them.

Other teams that have the chance to cause some trouble: Missouri State (should they get in), Akron, Butler, and a surprising team named Davidson. Davidson comes from the Southern conference and should they be able to wrap up the conference title this coming week, they will be a hard out for someone in the first round. Unfortunately for them, they will likely get a 14 seed or lower and will be stuck playing a team which should handle them easily. Just keep the Wildcats on your radar. I will be sure to alert you if you need to be picking that upset in the first round.

Check out all the rankings in Week 14 of the MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
North Carolina
24-5
219.75
1
2
Kansas
25-4
193.84
2
3
Memphis
25-3
184.84
4
4
Florida
25-4
178.88
3
5
Texas A&M
24-4
178.23
5
6
UCLA
24-3
161.70
8
7
Ohio State
26-3
161.70
6
8
Wisconsin
26-4
156.17
7
9
Pittsburgh
24-5
146.76
9
10
Duke
22-7
145.09
11
11
Georgetown
22-5
141.34
10
12
Michigan State
21-8
138.75
13
13
Maryland
22-7
134.93
14
14
Notre Dame
22-6
134.42
17
15
Xavier
21-7
131.28
18
16
Air Force
22-6
127.68
12
17
Texas
21-7
124.63
NR(30)
18
Villanova
18-9
122.27
16
19
Arizona
18-9
121.87
15
20
Old Dominion
23-7
121.61
21
21
Butler
24-5
121.00
24
22
Marquette
21-8
120.77
20
23
Illinois
21-9
120.26
NR(33)
24
Davidson
24-4
118.95
NR(34)
25
Missouri State
20-9
118.39
25

Teams Dropped From The Top 25:
Clemson (LW #18, TW #28), BYU (LW #22, TW #31), Virginia Commonwealth (LW #23, TW #26)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
29
Georgia Tech
18-10
115.52
26
33
Kentucky
19-9
112.84
28
34
Indiana
18-8
112.58
27
39
Tennessee
20-9
106.47
45
40
Florida State
18-11
104.74
44
46
Boston College
19-9
99.77
43
47
Purdue
18-10
99.51
38
54
Michigan
19-10
95.45
54
59
LSU
15-13
89.46
62
64
Washington
16-12
86.09
57
68
Drexel
21-7
83.37
73
73
Vanderbilt
18-9
78.39
68
74
Pennsylvania
18-8
77.92
78
82
Iowa
16-11
72.47
91
84
Texas Tech
18-11
71.54
75
100
Northern Iowa
17-12
60.53
105
103
Ohio
16-11
59.14
106
108
Auburn
15-13
56.61
117
110
Dayton
16-11
55.00
103
138
Miami
11-17
39.80
144
180
Illinois-Chicago
12-17
22.83
187
220
Ball State
9-19
6.41
207
296
Wofford
7-19
-36.70
291

Last Place this week: Winston-Salem State (2-23) at -101.74.

Biggest Gain this week: East Tennessee State gained 13.16 points (Beat Stetson and Mercer)
Biggest Loss this week: Mercer lost 16.27 points (Lost to Kennesaw State and East Tennessee 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

Posted February 26, 2007 11:42 AM

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