Bear and I went to the Wright State basketball game against St. Bonaventure last night, and we watched the Raiders do a nice job against the trapping zone defense to come out with a 54-45 victory. Interestingly, the Dayton Flyers play at St. Bonaventure later this season (I suppose that this is as close as we’ll get to the Gem City Jam — a team that both the Flyers and Raiders play in the same season).
When we arrived home after the game, we went on-line to explore the RPI ratings of the teams in the Horizon Conference versus those ratings of the teams in the A-10 Conference. Using a simple rule-of-thumb that bases potential wins against opponents based on their RPI rating, we made some predictions for the end-of-year records for UD and WSU…
We’ll come back and visit this posting in early March…