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The climb for Ohio State continues in the RPI.
The Buckeyes jumped three spots to No. 5 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.
Ohio State closed out its regular season last week with home victories against McKendree and Maryville. In addition, the Buckeyes enter the MIVA Tournament having won four of their last five matches.
UCLA remains atop the RPI rankings for the fourth consecutive week. The team swept a two-match series against Grand Canyon during the weekend and is more than four-hundredths percentage points ahead of No. 2 Loyola.
Grand Canyon following the two losses dropped one spot to No. 3, while BYU stayed at No. 4 to round out the top five in the rankings.
An updated RPI rankings will be released each Monday throughout the regular season and conference tournaments. The final RPI rankings will be unveiled on Selection Sunday.
RPI rankings (April 8)
1. UCLA – 0.68086
2. Long Beach State – 0.63975
3. Grand Canyon – 0.62585
4. BYU – 0.60827
5. Ohio State – 0.60612
6. Hawai’i – 0.60495
7. UC Irvine – 0.60314
8. Penn State – 0.59970
9. Pepperdine – 0.58841
10. Stanford – 0.58238
11. Loyola
12. Ball State
13. Saint Francis
14. George Mason
15. Purdue Fort Wayne
16. USC
17. Lewis
18. Lindenwood
19. Princeton
20. McKendree
21. CSUN
22. UC Santa Barbara
23. UC San Diego
24. Lincoln Memorial
25. Harvard
26. Daemen
27. Long Island
28. Belmont Abbey
29. North Greenville
30. NJIT
31. Mount Olive
32. Fairleigh Dickinson
33. Concordia
34. Maryville
35. Charleston
36. Queens
37. Erskine
38. Sacred Heart
39. Merrimack
40. D’Youville
41. Missouri S&T
42. King
43. Tusculum
44. Quincy
45. Barton
46. Thomas More
47. Emmanuel
48. Fort Valley State
49. Edward Waters
50. St. Thomas Aquinas
51. Dominican
52. Central State
53. Lees-McRae
54. Roosevelt
55. Kentucky State
56. Roberts Wesleyan
57. Benedict
58. American International
59. Morehouse