News and Notes: Saturday Edition

Below, news and notes for Saturday...

• Rant Sports writes after Cornell's defeat last night, "People have talked about how dominant Kentucky and Duke could wind up being this season, but at the end of the year it’s extremely likely that it’ll be Louisville, and not either one of those two schools, or even Michigan State or Kansas, which boasts the most impressive win-loss record of them all."

• See photos of Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) from the Springfield Armor's scrimmage yesterday against the Maine Red Claws at the Boston Celtics' practice facility.  Images on the Armor's Facebook page.

• 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 RPI rank as of November 16, 2013 is No. 180 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 ranks Cornell No. 303 in the nation, while the Sagarin Rankings (USA Today) have Cornell at No. 276.   Both sites are predominantly used by fans and the media.