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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Women's Hoops No. 6 in NCAA RPI
February 01, 2006 | Women's Basketball
NORMAN, Okla. -- The NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee released the first official Ratings Percentage Indexes (RPI) today and the Oklahoma women's basketball team is slated at No. 6. OU trails the consensus top-5 in the major polls despite being ranked No. 11 in the Associate Press Poll and No. 13 in the USA Today/Coaches Poll.
Oklahoma is slated behind (in order) Tennessee, Connecticut, North Carolina, LSU and Duke. Baylor is ranked No. 9 and is the only other Big 12 Team in the top-10.
The official RPI is used as one of many tools to select teams to participate in the championships. Developed in 1981, the RPI provides supplemental data in the evaluation of teams for at-large selection and seeding of the championship bracket is only one of many pieces of information available to the committees. Qualitative factors such as games missed by student-athletes or coaches and a team's performance in the latter portion of the season cannot be reliably measured by a statistical model. However, such factors are among the details of each team considered by the committees.
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Through the end of the regular season, the updated RPI rankings can be found at www.ncaasports.com. The first official RPI rankings include all games played through Monday, January 30. The RPI will be posted every Wednesday by 5 p.m.
Oklahoma's position in both the AP and Coaches polls is its highest since the final rankings of the 2002 season, when OU was national runner-up and ranked No. 2.
Currently, OU is in the midst of a six-game win streak and is in control of its own destiny with a 8-0 record in the Big 12. The Sooners own a two-game lead over Missouri and can extend that margin this weekend when they travel to face the Tigers at Mizzou Arena on Saturday at 5 p.m. The game is being broadcast by the Missouri Sports Network and simulcast back to Oklahoma by Sooner Sports Properties. The contest will be aired in the Oklahoma City/metro area on KAUT UPN (Cox channel 16).
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