With four weeks to go before Selection Sunday, the Rhode Island Rams are flying high and still fighting for national respect.
The NCAA’s men’s basketball committee announced its late-season top 16 seeds Sunday and the red hot Rams weren’t included. URI, which is riding a 15-game winning streak, is fifth in the current NCAA Ratings Percentage Index but that factor is apparently overshadowed by a lack of top shelf wins.
Bruce Rasmussen, the athletic director at Creighton and chair of the selection committee, consistently mentioned the `Quad 1 and Quad 2′ wins by several teams that did make the top 16.