A weekend loss did not keep UCLA from moving up the RPI.
The Bruins climbed one spot to No. 2 in the latest RPI rankings that the NCAA released on Monday.
This jump in the ranking comes after the team split a home-and-home series against its rival USC to close out the regular season. UCLA won the opening match in five games to win the MPSF regular season title and then lost the finale in three games on Saturday.
A team’s RPI ranking is calculated using a mathematical formula that includes its winning percentage, strength of schedule and opponents’ strength of schedule. RPI also is one of the criteria categories the selection committee uses to determine the NCAA Tournament field.
UCLA edged out Hawai’i by more than one-thousandths percentage points for the No. 2 spot in the RPI. Hawai’i dropped one spot to No. 3 in the rankings after an upset loss to UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.
Long Beach State remains atop the RPI, while UC Irvine and Loyola round out the top five in the rankings.
This is the one of final RPI rankings before Sunday the NCAA Tournament field is announced on Sunday. The final RPI rankings before the nine-team NCAA Tournament will be unveiled on Selection Sunday.
RPI rankings (April 20)
1. Long Beach State
2. UCLA
3. Hawai’i
4. UC Irvine
5. Loyola
6. McKendree
7. BYU
8. USC
9. Grand Canyon
10. CSUN
11. Ohio State
12. Lincoln Memorial
13. UC San Diego
14. Lewis
15. Pepperdine
16. Mount Olive
17. Stanford
18. UC Santa Barbara
19. Princeton
20. Ball State
21. Lindenwood
22. Penn State
23. Belmont Abbey
24. NJIT
25. Fort Valley State
26. George Mason
27. Purdue Fort Wayne
28. Saint Francis
29. Maryville
30. Harvard
31. Queens
32. Long Island
33. Catawba
34. St. Thomas Aquinas
35. Barton
36. Tusculum
37. Merrimack
38. Rockhurst
39. Charleston
40. Daemen
41. North Greenville
42. Missouri S&T
43. Quincy
44. Sacred Heart
45. Edward Waters
46. Menlo
46. Barry
47. Barry
48. Concordia
49. Fairleigh Dickinson
50. Vanguard
51. D’Youville
52. Thomas More
53. Erskine
54. King
55. Dominican
56. Emmanuel
57. Lees-McRae
58. Jessup
59. Benedict
60. Roberts Wesleyan
61. Central State
62. Roosevelt
63. Morehouse
64. American International
65. LeMoyne-Owen
66. Kentucky State