Clay forwards the amazing and sad story of Lusia Harris. Just go read it.

At the pay portion of the Full Court site, correspondent Christopher Thomspon recently described how easy it is for teams and conferences to manipulate the RPI.

The widely held belief is that the RPI rewards teams with tough schedules, but in fact the RPI favors teams in conferences that play the weakest schedules (or to be more accurate, teams in conferences that play teams from the weakest conferences). The RPI also disadvantages teams in conferences that play more conference games, at least among highly rated conferences. Finally teams are aided if their are several other (weaker) conferences in their geographic area.

For related criticisms, see here, here, and here.