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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5310502, member: 289"]
The last few years I’ve attempted to quantify team’s performances against ranked teams, (historically a big factor in decisions made about getting into playoffs) with a system that gives points to teams for the ranking of their opponents and adds or subtracts the point differential in their games, (adds in a win, subtracts in a loss). The ‘ranking’ points are 25 for playing a #1 ranked team, 24 for playing a #2 ranked team, etc., down to 1 point for playing a 25th ranked team. These points are easily computed by subtracting the ranking number from 26, (26-1 = 25; 26-25 =1, etc.). Over the course of the season, I add the points earned by each team in their games against ranked teams as a sort of standings but have always maintained that this is just one thing to look at in evaluating the team, not a final overall ranking.

WEEK 8 (12/23-29)
Memphis beat #16 Mississippi 87-70 =				+27
UCLA beat #14 Gonzaga 65-62 =				+15
Middle Tennessee lost to #1 Tennessee 64-82 =		+7
Utah State beat #20 San Diego State 67-66 =			+7
Gonzaga lost to #22 UCLA 62-65 = 				+1
South Dakota State lost to #5 Alabama 82-105 = 		-2
Prairie View A&M lost to #12 Oklahoma 67-89 = 		-8
Toledo lost to #21 Purdue 64-83 = 				-14
Stetson lost to #6 Florida 45-85 =				-20
Weber State list to #9 Oregon 49-89 =				-23
Abilene Christian lost to #13 Texas A&M  54-92  =		-25
Chicago State lost to #24 Illinois 64-117 =			-51		
Arlington Baptist lost to #25 Baylor 53-107 =			-53
It was a limited holiday schedule, mostly against bad teams, (Chicago State is 0-15, Prairie View 1-12 for example.

WEEKLY LEADERS
Week 1: Gonzaga beat #8 Baylor 101-63 =			+56 points
Week 2: Purdue beat #2 Alabama 87-78 =			+33
Week 3: Marquette beat #6 Purdue 76-58 =			+38
Week 4: Dayton beat #2 Connecticut 85-67 =			+42 
Week 5: Mississippi State beat #18 Pittsburgh 90-57 =		+41
Week 6: Dayton beat #6 Marquette 71-63 = 			+28
Week 7: Ohio State beat #4 Kentucky 85-65 =			+42 
Week 8: Memphis beat #16 Mississippi 87-70 =		+27

TOP TEN PERFORMANCES
Week 1: Gonzaga beat #8 Baylor 101-63 =			+56 points
Week 4: Dayton beat #2 Connecticut 85-67 =			+42 
Week 7: Ohio State beat #4 Kentucky 85-65 =			+42
Week 5: Mississippi State beat #18 Pittsburgh 90-57 =		+41 
Week 4: Louisville beat #14 Indiana 89-61 =			+40 			
Week 3: Marquette beat #6 Purdue 76-58 =			+38
Week 5: Creighton beat #1 Kansas 76-63 =			+38
Week 5: Missouri beat #1 Kansas 76-67 =			+34
Week 2: Purdue beat #2 Alabama 87-78 =			+33
Week 2: Wisconsin beat #9 Arizona 103-88 =			+32
Week 5: Iowa State beat #5 Marquette 81-70 = 		+32

TOP 25 CUMULATIVE
Gonzaga				+108 points
Dayton					+98
Auburn 				+89
Duke					+77
Marquette				+76

Illinois					+60
Mississippi State 			+59
Michigan				+58
Alabama				+56
San Diego State			+56

North Carolina				+55
Iowa State				+52
Memphis				+78
Creighton				+49
Texas A&M				+49

Kentucky				+45
Purdue 				+42
Connecticut				+39
West Virginia				+39
Wisconsin				+39

Arkansas State				+38
Kansas 				+38
Oregon					+35
Michigan State				+34
Missouri				+34

The worst in a game is Maryland Eastern Shore who lost to #19 Arkansas 35-109 = -67. The Hawks also have the worst cumulative total at -143.

Syracuse is -3 against ranked teams.

Here are their opponents: 
Le Moyne		-18
Colgate		+10
Youngstown State	-29
Texas
Saint Joseph’s
Texas Tech
Cornell
Tennessee		+28
Notre Dame		+10
Albany
Georgetown
Maryland		+20
Bucknell
Wake Forest		-26
Florida State		-7
Georgia Tech		-22
Boston College
Louisville 		+31
Notre Dame
Clemson		+26
Pittsburgh		+1
Stanford
California
Duke			+77
U of Miami		+12
North Carolina		+55
North Carolina State	+4
Virginia Tech		+3
Southern Methodist
Virginia			-30
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