First official RPI released

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The NCAA released official Ratings Percentage Index numbers for the first time ever yesterday. This ends years of speculation and reliance on Web sites that claim to know the secret formula.

Here's where the Ivy League ranks:

Penn: 120
Harvard: 137
Yale: 177
Cornell: 249
Columbia: 259
Brown: 287
Princeton: 291
Dartmouth: 318

Penn is officially:

0-5 against RPI 1-50
1-0 against RPI 51-100
2-0 against RPI 101-150
1-1 against RPI 151-200
2-0 against RPI 201-250
3-0 against RPI 250+

What does this mean?

Well, the team will have only one quality win at the end of the season -- at Hawaii. It's a shame, because Penn had pretty good leads against three of its top 50 opponents -- St. Joe's, Temple and Colorado.

Wins over those three teams would have put Penn in great shape should they make the NCAA Tournament. Had Penn beat all three of those teams, they may have been in contention for as high as a 9 seed. Had the Quakers beaten just one or two of those teams, they probably would have boosted their eventual seed by one. Instead, the team is going to have to fight for a 13 seed now.