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BYU climbs to No. 4 in latest RPI rankings

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Two more conference wins has catapulted BYU into the top five of the RPI.

BYU jumped two spots to No. 4 in the latest RPI rankings that the NCAA released on Monday.

A team’s RPI ranking is calculated using a mathematical formula that includes its winning percentage, strength of schedule and opponents’ strength of schedule. It also is one of the criteria categories the selection committee uses to determine the NCAA Tournament field.

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BYU during the weekend swept a two-match road series against Pepperdine to improve to 4-6 against top-10 RPI teams. Pepperdine following the two losses dropped one spot in the RPI to No. 10.

UCLA coming off of a bye week remains at No. 1 in the RPI rankings and is more than two-hundredths of percentage points ahead of No. 2 Grand Canyon.

Long Beach State and UC Irvine round out the top five, while Hawai’i dropped two spots to No. 6.

An updated RPI rankings will be released each Monday throughout the regular season and conference tournaments. The final RPI rankings before the seven-team NCAA Tournament will be unveiled on Selection Sunday.

RPI rankings (March 25)

1. UCLA – 0.66616
2. Grand Canyon – 0.64610
3. Long Beach State – 0.63773
4. BYU – 0.63019
5. UC Irvine – 0.62152
6. Hawai’i – 0.61327
7. Ohio State – 0.60090
8. Stanford – 0.59649
9. Penn State – 0.58845
10. Pepperdine – 0.58515
11. Loyola – 0.57885
12. Ball State – 0.56920
13. Purdue Fort Wayne – 0.56206
14. USC – 0.55963
15. Lewis – 0.55447
16. McKendree – 0.55079
17. Saint Francis – 0.54792
18. Princeton – 0.54769
19. Harvard – 0.54239
20. George Mason – 0.54172
21. UC San Diego
22. Daemen
23. UC Santa Barbara
24. Lindenwood
25. CSUN
26. Lincoln Memorial
27. Belmont Abbey
28. NJIT
29. Long Island
30. North Greenville
31. Concordia
32. Maryville
33. Sacred Heart
34. Queens
35. Charleston
36. Mount Olive
37. Merrimack
38. Fairleigh Dickinson
39. D’Youville
40. Tusculum
41. Missouri S&T
42. Erskine
43. Quincy
44. King
45. Thomas More
46. Barton
47. Fort Valley State
48. Emmanuel
49. Edward Waters
50. St. Thomas Aquinas
51. Dominican
52. Roosevelt
53. Central State
54. Kentucky State
55. American International
56. Lees-McRae
57. Benedict
58. Roberts Wesleyan
59. Morehouse