Luke The Drifter said:
Mercer is now up to #10 in the RPI. They're a decent team and made a 12-spot jump this week. How'd they make such an impressive jump? Well, they won 4 road games…1 at #153 Jacksonville State and 3 at #126 East Tennessee State.
Road games matter…at least in the eyes of the RPI.
They've played 24 Q4 games (losing 3) compared to our 6-1 Q4 record. Meanwhile they've played a whopping 7 Q1 opponents with a 3-4 record while we're13-8 against Q1. So, vaulting 11 spots because they picked up 4 more Q2 and Q3 wins on the road makes complete sense.