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Wins may not remove UW's wart

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Thursday, March 4, 2004

Washington's RPI sits there like a wart the Huskies can't remove. No matter what they do, it won't go away. Win 12 of 14 games ... it's still there. Travel across the country during the Pac-10 season for a Sunday night game against the ACC's second-place team and only lose by five to NC State ... it still won't budge. Clinching second place in the Pac-10, even beating Stanford ... it doesn't improve out of the 70s. Nothing seems to clear up UW's major NCAA Tournament blemish -- its RPI of 76 ...

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