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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5285782, 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 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
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