Rankings- 12-14-11

RPI

1) Davidson 53
2) College of Charleston 89
3) Elon 109
4) Wofford 152
5) Furman 169
6) Western Carolina 204
7) Georgia Southern 317
8) Samford 323
9) Chattanooga 330
10) UNC-Greensboro 331
11) The Citadel 332
12) Appalachian State 333

SoCon Rank: 29

Sagarin

1) College of Charleston 80
2) Davidson 86
3) Elon 164
4) Wofford 175
5) Furman 201
6) Western Carolina 219
7) Georgia Southern 283
8) Appalachian State 294
9) Samford 295
10) Chattanooga 305
11) The Citadel 332
12) UNC-Greensboro 335

SoCon Rank: 27

Pomeroy

1) Davidson 99
2) College of Charleston 113
3) Elon 203
4) Wofford 206
5) Western Carolina 224
6) Furman 230
7) Appalachian State 250
8) Chattanooga 261
9) Georgia Southern 271
10) Samford 292
11) UNC-Greensboro 294
12) The Citadel 311

ANALYSIS

What I find most interesting this week is that Elon is so low in the Pomeroy rankings. Wofford is very close to them. That seems quite surprising to me. They are also very close in the Sagarin rankings. To me, Elon is far ahead of Wofford at this point, but apparently this is not the case really.

This is changed by the RPI. In RPI rankings, Elon is getting closer and closer to College of Charleston actually. The Phoenix are closing in on the Top 100. This seems appropriate.

Of course, this can be explained with Sagarin and Pomeroy including some from last year while the RPI is not. That explains a lot of the problems.

We're getting closer and closer to these RPI numbers being accurate. It's getting pretty interesting in those rankings, and the SoCon is looking more and more like they desperately need Elon, College of Charleston, or Davidson to win the tournament to get the best possible seed and showing in the NCAA Tournament. But the rest of the conference can still make a big run to get a higher RPI ranking.