Against Ranked Teams - Basketball - after week 6

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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 6
Dayton beat #6 Marquette 71-63 = +28 points
Connecticut beat #8 Gonzaga 77-71 = +24
Illinois lost to #1 Tennessee 64-66 = +23
Texas A&M beat #11 Purdue 70-66 = +19
Memphis beat #16 Clemson 87-82 = +15
Arkansas beat #14 Michigan 89-87 = +14
Iowa lost to #3 Iowa State 80-89 = +14
Louisville lost to #5 Kentucky 85-93 = +13
Illinois beat #20 Wisconsin 86-80 = +12
U of Miami lost to #1 Tennessee 62-75 = +12
Creighton lost to #7 Alabama 75-83 = +11
Colgate lost to #5 Kentucky 67-78 = +10
Purdue lost to #17 Texas A&M 66-70 = +5
Gonzaga lost to #18 Connecticut 71-77 = +2
NC State lost to #10 Kansas 60-75 = +1
Xavier lost to #22 Cincinnati 65-68 = +1
Arizona State lost to #9 Florida 66-83 = 0
Arizona lost to #24 UCLA 54-57 = -1
McNeese lost to #25 Mississippi State 63-66 = -2
Oklahoma State lost to #13 Oklahoma 65-80 = -2
Butler lost to #20 Wisconsin 74-83 = -3
California Baptist lost to #23 San Diego State 75-81 = -3
Incarnate Word lost to #4 Duke 46-72 = -4
Stephen . Austin lost to #12 Oregon 61-79 = -4
Omaha lost to #3 Iowa State 51-83 = -9
Troy lost to #15 Houston 42-62 = -9
Ohio State lost to #2 Auburn 53-91 = -14
Southern Mississippi lost to #19 Mississippi 46-77 = -24


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

TOP TEN PERFORMANCES
Week 1: Gonzaga beat #8 Baylor 101-63 = +56 points
Week 4: Dayton beat #2 Connecticut 85-67 = +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 +107 points
Dayton +98
Duke +77
Marquette +76
Auburn +61

Illinois +60
Alabama +56
San Diego State +56
Iowa State +52
Memphis +51

Creighton +49
Texas A&M +49
Michigan +47
Kentucky +45
Mississippi State +41

Connecticut +39
West Virginia +39
Wisconsin +39
Arkansas State +38
Kansas +38

Purdue +36
Oregon +35
Michigan State +34
Missouri +34
North Carolina +32



The worst in a game is Maryland Eastern Shore who lost to #19 Arkansas 35-109 = -67. The Hawks have has 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 -16
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 +32
North Carolina State +4
Virginia Tech +3
Southern Methodist
Virginia -33