{"id":1136,"date":"2012-02-05T08:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2012-02-07T07:04:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:04:04","slug":"highlights-wyoming-defeats-11-unlv-68-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/highlights-wyoming-defeats-11-unlv-68-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Win Over UNLV Provides RPI Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 68-66 upset win over number 11 UNLV\u00a0on Saturday the Cowboys have seen their RPI greatly improve. The Cowboys now have an RPI of <strong>73<\/strong>\u00a0after being ranked\u00a092nd following the road loss at TCU\u00a0last week. The strength of schedule also improved jumping from 188 to 142 and is on course to finish at\u00a0101 according to statsheet.com. This is a very positive sign for the Cowboys and the key now is to keep winning. Wyoming has a chance to really improve their RPI with games still left against New Mexico, CSU, San Diego State, and UNLV\u00a0all of which have higher RPI&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a02-2 record or better against these\u00a0 higher rated teams down the stretch should be the\u00a0goal for the Pokes. This along with holding court against the lower ranked teams\u00a0that Wyoming should be favorites against could see\u00a0the brown and gold\u00a0very much\u00a0in the NCAA tournament\u00a0conversation.\u00a0The Cowboys will also have an additional chance to enhance their resume in the conference tourney in Vegas with a win or two. Anything is possible at this point in time, it&#8217;s a good position to be in comparison to this time last year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 68-66 upset win over number 11 UNLV\u00a0on Saturday the Cowboys have seen their RPI greatly improve. The Cowboys now have an RPI of 73\u00a0after being ranked\u00a092nd following the road loss at TCU\u00a0last week. The strength of schedule also improved jumping from 188 to 142 and is on course to finish at\u00a0101 according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[175,170,151,174],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-tough","tag-tournament-bubble","tag-wy-68-unlv-66","tag-wyoming-basketball","tag-wyoming-rpi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}