>> met with NCAA staff members to discuss RPI and asked staff to review
>> the current system (identical to mans BB womans BB baseball & womans
>> volleyball) with a mathematician to determine  whether it meets the
>> needs of the committee
>
>ah, the "fix the CC travesty" syndrome, part 1.  I'd certainly hope
>they used a STATISTICIAN instead of a mathematician.
 
But surely the point of being a MATHEMATICIAN is that we can find a
theory to justify whatever they want to do with probability one.
 
Graeme.
 
PS sorry about the "noise", but I couldn't let that one go by!:)