It’s been a month and a half since I bothered complaining about Pitt’s weak-ass non-con schedule. Yoni, over at College Basketball Blog has given me reason to bitch a little more. He put together the Strength of Schedule for all top-25 teams in categories of non-con, conference and overall, based on last year’s RPI of each team’s opponents.
The good news, Pitt doesn’t have the worst non-con RPI. Notre Dame blows everyone out of the water for that. The bad news, is Pitt is the second worst non-con RPI.
How bad is it? Despite the excuse of Pitt’s difficult conference schedule, there are only 5 teams with worse overall schedule RPI than Pitt: Illinois, Michigan St., Texas, Gonzaga and ND. Four other schools — Ok. St., Ariz., Louisville and Washington — are a stone’s throw away in overall RPI but still better than Pitt. It’s embarrassing and it could end up looking worse by the time this season ends now that the NCAA tweaked the RPI to give more points for road wins — which Pitt only has one (Penn St.) and one neutral site (Memphis) .