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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2033051, member: 289"]
It occurred to me that with a new basketball season beginning I could do an “Against Ranked Teams”  post for this sport, too. The margins of victory are similar to football. The formula is to first give each team that plays a ranked team from 1-25 points based on the ranking (I’ll use the writer’s poll) of their opponent. This chart shows you how many points they’d get for playing each team ranked at a certain level , (the ranking is first, the points, second):

1-25, 2-24, 3-23, 4-22, 5-21, 6-20, 7-19, 8-18, 9-17, 10-16, 11-15, 12-14, 13-13, 14-12, 15-11, 16-10, 17-9, 18-8, 19-7, 20-6, 21-5, 22-4, 23-3, 24-2, 25-1

I’ll call those “schedule points”.  Then you look at the point differential in the game and apply it to the schedule points. If a team loses to the #1 ranked team by 10 points. They’d wind up with 15 points: 25 schedule points minus the ten points they lost by. If a team beats the #10 team by 5 points, they’d get 21 points: 16 schedule points plus the 5 points they won by. If a team lost to the #20 team by 6 points, they’d get nothing. The margin of defeat would cancel out their schedule points. If a team lost to the #25 team by 3 points, they get a zero. You can’t have negative points. You just failed in an attempt to get positive points.

I’ll figure the points based on games over the past week every Sunday and post them, along with cumulative season standings, just as I have done for football. As I said on that post, this is less a way of ranking than it is simply something you might want to look at in ranking them – or selecting them for a tournament.  I recognize that rankings will change over the course of the season. I’m making the assumption that teams are worthy of the ranking they have at the time another team plays them. That may not always be true but a subsequent ranking may just reflect how good or bad a team has become since the game in question: they may have been as good as their ranking at the time.

WEEK TEN

West Virginia beat #1 Baylor 89-68 =                        46 points
Villanova beat #15 Xavier 79-54 =                              36 points
Florida State beat #7 Duke 88-72 =                           35 points
North Carolina beat #9 Florida State 96-83 =        30 points
Gonzaga beat #21 St. Mary’s 79-56 =                       28 points
Louisville beat #7 Duke 78-69 =                                  28 points
Creighton beat #12 Butler 75-64 =                            25 points
Oklahoma lost to #2 Kansas 70-81 =                         23 points
Utah beat #25 So California 86-64 =                          23 points
Utah lost to #4 UCLA 82-83 =                                       21 points         
Oklahoma State lost to #2 Kansas 80-87 =             17 points
Butler beat #15 Xavier 83-78 =                                    16 points
Kansas State lost to #1 Baylor 68-77 =                     16 points
Iowa beat #17 Purdue 83-78 =                                    14 points
Texas lost to #10 West Virginia 72-74 =                   14 points
St. John’s lost to #3 Villanova 57-70 =                      10 points
Baylor beat #25 Kansas State 77-68 =                       9 points
Wake Forest lost to #11 North Carolina 87-93 =   9 points
Xavier lost to #12 Butler 78-83 =                                 9 points
Butler lost to #8 Creighton 64-75 =                             7 points
Colorado lost to #4 UCLA 89-104 =                             7 points
Pittsburgh lost to #14 Louisville 80-85 =                   7 points
Penn State beat #24 Minnesota 52-50 =                                 4 points
Clemson lost to #19 Virginia 73-77 =                           3 points
Duke lost to #14 Louisville 69-78 =                              3 points
Florida State lost to #11 North Carolina 83-96 =    2 points
So Methodist lost to #22 Cincinnati 64-66 =           2 points
Duke lost to #9 Florida State 72-88 =                          1 point
Miami lost to #20 Notre Dame 62-67 =                     1 point
Virginia Tech lost to #20 Notre Dame 71-76 =         1 point

Comments:  West Virginia’s performance against Baylor was the most impressive of the season so far, beating out Baylor’s 66-49 win over #4 Oregon in Week Two, which netted them 39 points. This week had 30 games that produced points. Week Three, when there were a lot of tournaments, had 32 such games. But that week produced only 352 points. Week Ten produced 447 points and was thus the most significant of the season so far. But we are in the conference season now and there could be several similar weeks to come.

Butler and Louisville became the second and third teams to crack the 100 point barrier for the season but Baylor continued to hold onto 1st place in the standings. Utah picked up 44 points in two games in LA and went from 5 to 49 points for the season.

[B]Cumulative Totals[/B]

[B]Top 25[/B]

Baylor                                   118 points
Butler                                    114 points
Louisville                              108 points
Florida State                       83 points
Kentucky                             79 points

North Carolina                   76 points
West Virginia                     75 points
Villanova                              73 points
Creighton                            69 points
Indiana                                 68 points

Oregon                                 53 points
Gonzaga                              52 points
Duke                                     51 points
Utah                                      49 points
Notre Dame                       47 points

Kansas                                  38 points
South Carolina                   38 points
Kansas State                      37 points
Oklahoma State                                37 points
Wisconsin                            36 points

Iowa State                          35 points
Pittsburgh                           35 points
Purdue                                 35 points
Virginia Tech                      36 points
Colorado                              34 points
Ohio State                           34 points

Syracuse                                0 points              (99 teams have earned points so far this year)
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