As an at-large team. Sound absurd? It most certainly is not. With their win last night over nationally ranked Dayton, Davidson’s RPI ranking is currently 39th. Davidson is 12-4 with the four losses all to top 100 teams per RPI — Virginia (2nd), VCU (4), North Carolina (11), and Richmond (69). That’s good stuff.
The weakness in Davidson’s resume is a lack of quality wins. The school’s fourth best win is against UNC-Charlotte, whose RPI rates 142nd. So to get in at large, Davidson essentially needs to keep on doing what its been doing, defeating average to bad teams — the Wildcats’ next five games are against teams with RPIs of 155+ — and then beat some of the better opposition it has remaining. A key game will likely come on Feb. 28th at home against George Washington (RPI: 42).
