RPI gains
Following back-to-back wins over Arkansas and South Carolina, Florida jumped from 79 to 62 in the latest weekly men’s college basketball Ratings Percentage Index.
The RPI measures a team’s record as it relates to its strength of schedule. Florida is 14-5 with a strength of schedule that ranks 87th out of 347 Division I teams.
Florida’s RPI has a chance to jump significantly in the coming weeks. The Gators still have Kentucky (RPI 7), Xavier (RPI 13) and Tennessee twice (RPI 15) remaining on the schedule. Florida also has upcoming matchups with Vanderbilt (RPI 27), Mississippi (RPI 30) and Mississippi State (RPI 53).
Two spots down from Florida is Marshall at 64. The Thundering Herd are having a fine third season under head coach Donnie Jones, a former UF assistant. Marshall is 13-4 overall and 4-1 in Conference USA.
Kevin Brockway gave up on his dream of becoming a lefty starting pitcher for the New York Mets when he walked four straight batters, then hit one in a middle school game in Suffern, N.Y. Since graduating college in 1993, he’s worked as a sports writer at daily newspapers throughout the state of Florida, beginning with the Key West Citizen. He then moved on to the Northwest Florida Daily News and Naples Daily News before becoming the men’s basketball writer for The Gainesville Sun in 2003. Brockway has won multiple state and national writing awards during his 16-year career. Favorite pastimes include karaoke and watching baseball. Favorite college hoops team growing up was St. John’s.
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