Basketball by the numbers

Here's a bright spot in an otherwise dreary UC Davis basketball season. The Aggies are tied for 46th in the nation in steals with nine per game. It's a four-team knot with UCD, Troy, LSU and TCU. So that's something, no matter how small. The rest of the numbers are fairly ugly. The Aggies are 317th in the two RPI simulations I check (I also check the NCAA's weekly RPI rankings, but those haven't been released yet). In previous years an RPI on Dec. 12 wouldn't mean much, but with the uniform start date in place many teams have already played the majority of their non-conference schedules.