BY GENE SAPAKOFF
South Carolina swept Missouri in an SEC weekend series and beat Wofford last week but dropped a spot from 11 to 12 on the NCAA's official Ratings Percentage Index list released Tuesday.
The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee doesn't go strictly by RPI rankings when picking its top eight national seeds but the criteria is important. The top eight teams are in line to host super regionals if they advance through first-round regionals.
Clemson lost two of three at Notre Dame last weekend and fell from No. 43 to No. 46 - near if not squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble.
The College of Charleston is 73, The Citadel is 202 and Charleston Southern is 207.
Ratings Percentage Index for top 50 NCAA Division I teams:
RPI Last week Team
1 1 Virginia
2 3 Florida St
3 2 Florida
4 9 Oregon St
5 4 Indiana
6 6 Rice
7 5 Vanderbilt
8 8 Houston
9 7 La.-Lafayette
10 18 Miami
11 13 Texas
12 11 South Carolina
13 10 TCU
14 16 Texas Tech
15 12 Ole Miss
16 19 Cal Poly
17 20 Indiana St
18 14 Louisville
19 15 Kentucky
20 17 LSU
21 25 Alabama
22 22 Liberty
23 26 Washington
24 27 Oklahoma St
25 23 Oregon
26 33 UC Irvine
27 21 Mercer
28 29 Old Dominion
29 24 West Virginia
30 28 UNLV
31 47 Maryland
32 31 Stanford
33 46 Sam Houston St
34 34 Georgia Tech
35 32 Texas A&M
36 35 Bryant
37 37 Dallas Baptist
38 36 Kansas
39 44 Nebraska
40 38 Pepperdine
41 42 Arizona St
42 39 Mississippi St
43 48 Columbia
44 30 Tennessee
45 45 Georgia
46 43 Clemson
47 58 North Carolina
48 40 UCF
49 51 San Diego St
50 54 Arkansas
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