NCAA Division I semifinal Virginia topped the NCAA’s final Division I men’s RPI rankings — the Ratings Percentage Index used as an aid in selecting and seeding of the teams for the NCAA Tournament and taking into account a team’s winning percentage, its strength of schedule and its opponents’ strength of schedule.
ACC teams claimed the top three spots — No. 1 Virginia, No. 2 Wake Forest and No. 3 Duke. National champion UC Santa Barbara was eighth in the rankings. Runner-up UCLA was fourth.
TOP 10
TEAM CONF. ’06 RECORD
1 Virginia ACC 17-4-1
2 Wake Forest ACC 18-3-4
3 Duke ACC 18-4-1
4 UCLA Pac-10 14-6-4
5 Indiana Big Ten 15-4-3
6 SMU Conference USA 17-2-4
7 Maryland ACC 16-5-1
8 UC Santa Barbara Big West 17-7-1
9 West Virginia Big East 15-3-3
10 Lehigh Patriot 15-2-3