Not to be "that guy," but RPI is kind of becoming an extinct metric for evaluating how worthy a team is of being in a certain slot (or in the tournament at all). It only measures our win percentage, our opponents' win percentage, and our opponents opponents' win percentage. That means that South Carolina State's existence factors into our RPI, along with the reprehensibly bad teams in South Carolina State's conference affect where we stand, along with other teams that have no bearing on where we are as a team. The fifth place finish will unfortunately loom much larger, although I'm hoping I'm wrong and we end up a 15.