Rhode Island’s schedule is out. I think they did a good job with setting this up based on their team. They only have 1 All-Conference player returning, an All-Rookie team OH. Based on Figgie rpi, RI finished last year at 186. Six of their 12 non-conference teams in 2018 ended with better RPIs.
77
Temple
84 Yale
96 Loyola Marymount
108 Hofstra
131 Drake
161 Army
Temple in the ACC and Yale in the Ivy both finished 2nd last year. LMU in the West Coast, Hofstra in CAA and Drake in the MVC all finished 4th. I expect LMU to finish higher this year. I don’t know enough about anyone else.
The rest:
206 Sacred Heart
210 New Hampshire
211 Columbia
239 Binghamton
305 NJIT
306 Holy Cross
I hope the 300s improve this year. Overall these 12 average a Figgie rpi of 178. That better than RIs 186, and they don’t return a lot of good players. And thus I think this is good scheduling for them for 2018.