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...nation to secure an NCAA bid—now awaits the NCAA selection show on March 16 at 5 p.m. on ESPN. Harvard earned a 13th seed last year, but hopes for higher this year based on its RPI, which stands at 43rd in the nation according to Jerry Palm??€™s www.collegerpi.com...
...Jerry Palm??€™s web site www.collegerpi.com posts RPI calculations on a daily basis, and right now, his calculations list Harvard’s RPI at No. 42 in the nation, ahead of 19 other projected automatic tournaments qualifiers...
...Harvard could do even better for a couple reasons. If there are upsets in conference tournaments, teams with lower RPIs than Harvard could make the tournament, which would push up Harvard’s seeding. Also, Palm??€™s site suggests that the NCAA selection committee actually uses a weighted RPI which rewards good wins and penalizes bad losses. Few of the Crimson’s competitors have bad wins, and most of them have bad losses. Harvard, however, is one of just seven teams nationwide that has yet to lose to a non-Top 25 team. Such considerations...
...higher seed will provide several benefits to Harvard. It will give the Crimson an easier opponent in the first round and lower the likelihood that this game will be on its opponent’s home court. Palm??€™s latest bracket projection is among the best site arrangements Crimson could hope for. He projects Harvard at No. 12, playing South Carolina at Old Dominion, who would earn a No. 13 seed. Other nearby sites where Harvard could end up include Penn State, Cincinnati, NC State, Georgia and Purdue...
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