This season's Rebels (25-6) are an anonymous lot, but have a Ratings Percentage Index estimated Wednesday to be 10th in the country.

Calamity is lining up daily for the basketball conference that was ranked the best in the country this season by the Ratings Percentage Index.

Tournament officials rely heavily on teams' Ratings Percentage Index in making their selections.

They had a strong Ratings Percentage Index, 35, entering the game.

The Pride's Ratings Percentage Index placed it 30th out of 334 Division I teams.

The Mountaineers entered the day with an Ratings Percentage Index of 58, not the most flattering of numbers.

Larranaga says it not only boosts the Ratings Percentage Index, which measures strength of schedule.

The Falcons were once 17-1 this season and holders of a top-10 slot in the Ratings Percentage Index.

The remaining 42 berths were determined through an at-large process based upon teams' Ratings Percentage Index that did not win their conference tournament.

They are prognosticating bracketologists or tireless trackers of the Ratings Percentage Index.