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Helps women's team lots: Conference RPIs has Big East #6 by Domerduck

without UConn and AAC #9 with UConn. Big East would easily move up to #4 with UConn added in as my calculation show the Big East average RPI would be 0.5674, better than both the Big 10 and SEC. UConn's RPI was 6th overall (with ND #!), but was affected by the lousy AAC and will be even better if they were in the Big East. The AAC would drop their average conference RPI to 0.5103 which would have dropped them 10th, below the Colonial and almost the same RPI average as the IVY league. Here's the top 9 with the link to RealtimeRPI.com below.

Final 2018/19 Conference RPI:
Rank- Conference...Record-All...........Non-Conf.....Avg.RPI....Avg SOS...Rank...Teams
1....Atlantic Coast...292-175 (63%)...158-41 (79%)...0.5942.....0.5924......1.........15
2....Pacific-12........ 226-145 (61%)....108-27 (80%)...0.5812.....0.5785......2.........12
3....Big 12...............189-122 (61%)......90-23 (80%)....0.5750....0.5758......3.........10
4....Big Ten..............257-178 (59%)....118-39 (75%)...0.5605.....0.5560......5.........14
5....Southeastern....254-180 (59%) ....129-55 (70%)...0.5600.....0.5617......4.........14
6....Big East............180-131 (58%) ......81-32 (72%)...0.5568.....0.5547......6.........10
7...West Coast........167-137 (55%)......68-38 (64%)...0.5330.....0.5273......7..........10
8...Mid-American.....206-160 (56%)......87-41 (68%)...0.5322.....0.5244......9.........12
9..American Athletic.200-172 (54%).....92-65 (59%)...0.5239.....0.5258......8.........12