News and Notes: Tuesday Edition

Below, news and notes for Tuesday...

• Athlon Sports writes, "With only one [senior] in the rotation in 2012-13, next season was supposed to be the year for Harvard to make a move. Instead, the Crimson upset third-seeded New Mexico 68-62 in the round of 64. Next season, Harvard will be the 'it' team in the Ivy League, same as Cornell was before its run to the Sweet 16 in 2010."

• The Yale Daily News profiles a couple of Yale players committed to remaining sober and references their play against Cornell.

• Cornell RPI Watch: The RPI (Rating Percentage Index) is a measure of strength of schedule and how a team does against that schedule. It does not consider the margin of victory, but only whether or not a team won and where the game was played (home/away/neutral court). The formula is 25% team winning percentage (WP), 50% opponents' average winning percentage (OWP), and 25% opponents' opponents' average winning percentage (OOWP). (See: CollegeRPI.com for a further explanation of the formula.) The RPI may be the most influential factor in NCAA Tournament seeding. Cornell's FINAL 2012-2013 RPI rank is No. 248 out of 344 total Division I teams. While neither the Ken Pomeroy or the Sagarin Rankings (USA Today) are used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee, the KenPom.com site ranked Cornell No. 265 in the nation, while the Sagarin Rankings (USA Today) ranked Cornell at No. 254.  Both sites are predominantly used by fans and the media.