FEBRUARY 4, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH

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👆️ First Tuesday of the Month. LFG.

Headlines
📜 Understanding the NPI
🏀 Wesleyan, NYU Remain Atop Polls
🏒 Hobart #1 Despite First Loss of Year
🐘 Jumbos Named Preseason Favorite

📆 What’s Happening Today. The DIII Championships Committee concludes a two-day virtual meeting.

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TOP STORY
1. Understanding the NPI

It’s the first week of February and time for the first publication of the official NCAA Power Index ratings for basketball and hockey.

The Power Index - or NPI for short - is a system that houses the division’s statistical data and objectively applies the selection criteria to the data based on the sport committee’s established weighted criteria. NPI is a combination of the following: winning percentage; strength of schedule; home-away multiplier; quality win bonus; and overtime results (when relevant).

The change from the old championships selection process to the NPI takes the data analysis from a subjective application, varying by sport committee, to an objective computer data analysis based on the weights established by each sport committee.

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