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UCLA is on the move in the RPI.
The defending NCAA champion Bruins jumped one spot to No. 3 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. RPI also is one of the criteria categories the selection committee uses to determine the NCAA Tournament field.
UCLA’s climb in the RPI comes after the team swept a two-match conference home series against BYU during the weekend. The wins helped UCLA move ahead of UC Irvine by more than one-hundredth percentage points in the rankings.
Long Beach State remains atop the RPI – edging out Hawai’i by about four-thousandths percentage points.
Loyola rounds out the top five of the RPI rankings.
An updated RPI rankings will be released each Monday throughout the regular season and conference tournaments. The final RPI rankings before the nine-team NCAA Tournament will be unveiled on Selection Sunday.
RPI rankings (April 13)
1. Long Beach State
2. Hawai’i
3. UCLA
4. UC Irvine
5. Loyola
6. McKendree
7. BYU
8. CSUN
9. Grand Canyon
10. USC
11. Lincoln Memorial
12. Ohio State
13. UC San Diego
14. Pepperdine
15. Lewis
16. Stanford
17. Mount Olive
18. Princeton
19. Ball State
20. UC Santa Barbara
21. Lindenwood
22. Belmont Abbey
23. Penn State
24. NJIT
25. Harvard
26. Purdue Fort Wayne
27. Long Island
28. Fort Valley State
29. George Mason
30. Queens
31. Catawba
32. Saint Francis
33. Maryville
34. St. Thomas Aquinas
35. Tusculum
36. Barton
37. Charleston
38. Daemen
39. Merrimack
40. North Greenville
41. Rockhurst
42. Missouri S&T
43. Quincy
44. Concordia
45. Sacred Heart
46. Barry
47. Edward Waters
48. Fairleigh Dickinson
49. Menlo
50. Vanguard
51. Erskine
52. D’Youville
53. King
54. Dominican
55. Lees-McRae
56. Thomas More
57. Jessup
58. Emmanuel
59. Benedict
60. Roberts Wesleyan
61. Central State
62. Roosevelt
63. Morehouse
64. American International
65. LeMoyne-Owen
66. Kentucky State