Say what you will about the schedule, the University of Hawai’i basketball team is currently the top rated team in the Big West Conference, according to the ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI).
The BPI, which claims to be the most comprehensive rating system of all NCAA Division I teams, released its first rankings of the 2015-16 season this week.
Hawai’i, which is off to a 7-1 start, is rated No. 106 overall and first among the nine Big West teams.
The other Big West teams are, in order: Long Beach State (112), UC Irvine (118), Cal Poly (135), Cal State Fullerton (172), UC Davis (190), UC Santa Barbara (195), UC Riverside (221) and CSUN (284).