Some quick college hoops thoughts for the afternoon before leaving for lunch..

By: Mike Moreau

Team USA can't lose in these Olympics.

That doesn't mean they won't lose; it means that after all of the planning, preparation, and commitments from our nation's best basketball minds and our best players, they absolutely, positively cannot afford to lose.

People have been emailing me this week asking how I came up with the groupings for the Conference Rise & Fall articles. While the groupings I used were based on a mix of intuition and stats, here are the actual conference RPI's over the last decade. Notice the clean split between certain league divisions.. for example, the BCS leagues and non-BCS leagues. The difference in avg RPI between the best and worst BCS leagues (ACC & Pac-10) is 2.7, which is almost as big as the gap between the Pac-10 and the closest non-BCS league.