Originally sent on Monday, December 9, 2002.
Sorry about the delay in getting this out to you. If you remember correctly, it was normally the first weekend after Thanksgiving that the MRI would come out. Well, due to a rule change 2 years ago, there were a number of exempt tournaments canceled this year. The rule change only allows a team to participate in 2 tournaments every 4 years. Most teams thought the rule would be repealed and participated in 2 during the first 2 years. But the rule remained and as a result, the tournaments were unable to fill their fields in many cases. So as a result, the number of games that had been played by Turkey day was very small. And I made the decision to hold off with the MRI.

In addition, my work has me swamped so I have been unable to watch most games.

So, no real analysis this week. Hopefully next week, we will have more.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LAST YEAR
1
Notre Dame
8-1
85.83
29
2
Wisconsin
5-1
79.23
92
3
Oklahoma
4-1
71.36
4
4
Creighton
6-0
70.60
34
5
St. Joseph's
5-0
68.63
73
6
Indiana
6-0
68.10
28
7
Iowa State
4-0
67.95
147
8
Arizona
4-0
67.32
44
9
Illinois
5-0
67.25
13
10
Florida
6-2
67.06
6
11
DePaul
3-0
67.01
235
12
Alabama
6-0
66.03
9
13
Texas Tech
5-0
64.64
16
14
Missouri
4-0
63.87
43
15
Florida State
4-1
63.78
168
16
Xavier
4-1
63.76
24
17
Connecticut
5-0
63.64
32
18
Purdue
4-1
62.51
161
19
North Carolina State
4-0
62.10
27
20
Georgetown
5-0
62.08
42
21
Marquette
5-1
62.01
12
22
Southern Illinois
4-0
61.73
31
23
Butler
4-0
61.03
20
24
Duke
5-0
60.38
1
25
Texas
5-1
59.73
36

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LAST YEAR
37
Iowa
5-1
52.48
50
39
Kansas
2-3
52.05
3
43
Ball State
4-2
50.81
66
44
Georgia Tech
4-1
50.74
82
45
Michigan State
4-2
50.63
51
80
Miami
3-2
41.30
35
140
Drexel
3-2
32.27
159
193
Wofford
1-2
25.24
279
198
Pennsylvania
2-2
24.78
41

Last Place this week:  Morris Brown (1-6) at -15.89.

Enjoy
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