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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2083941, 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 FIFTEEN

North Carolina beat #14 Virginia 65-41 =                36 points
Texas Tech beat #4 Baylor 84-78 =                            28 points
Kansas beat #4 Baylor 67-65 =                                    26 points
Northwestern beat #7 Wisconsin 66-59 =              26 points
Southern Methodist beat #11 Cincinnati 60-51= 24 points
Duke beat #14 Virginia 65-55 =                                   22 points
Baylor lost to #3 Kansas 65-67 =                                 21 points
Kansas beat #9 West Virginia 84-80 =                      21 points
Michigan beat #11 Wisconsin 64-58 =                      21 points
West Virginia lost to #3 Kansas 80-84 =                   21 points
Virginia Tech beat #12 Virginia 80-78 =                    16 points
Syracuse lost to #8 Louisville 72-76 =                       14 points
Virginia Tech lost to #8 Louisville 90-94 =                14 points
Vanderbilt beat #21 South Carolina 71-62 =          14 points
Seton Hall beat #20 Creighton 87-81 =                    13 points
Washington lost to #5 Arizona 68-76 =                    13 points
Arkansas beat #21 South Carolina 83-76 =             12 points
DePaul lost to #2 Villanova 62-75 =                           11 points
Wake Forest lost to #12 Duke 94-99 =                       9 points
Georgia lost to #13 Kentucky 77-82 =                       8 points
Texas Tech lost to #9 West Virginia 74-83 =             8 points
Mississippi State #15 Florida 52-57 =                          6 points
Virginia lost to #12 Duke 55-65 =                                  4 points
Pacific lost to #1 Gonzaga 61-82 =                               3 points
Seton Hall lost to #2 Villanova 70-92 =                       2 points
Tulane lost to #19 Southern Methodist 75-80 =    2 points
Washington State lost to #2 Arizona 59-78 =         2 points
Utah lost to #7 Oregon 61-79 =                                   1 point

Comments: We got another 14 points to move to 65. I still think we need some more and at least some of them need to come from a win. North Carolina sure looked against Virginia. The not only joined the 100 point club but moved just behind the Cavs into fifth place.  They also made Virginia look bad, which doesn’t help us.  The Cavs had a terrible week with three losses and got only 4 points out them. . Baylor also had a bad week with two losses but still picked up 21 points off the Kansas game to remain in first place. Kansas had the best week. They not only broke the 100 barrier but pushed on to second place. Duke also joined the club and they are coming on strong right now. Texas Tech just made it above the same barrier. The ACC may be the strongest conference top to bottom but the Big Twelve is looking good at the top. Of course, they play each other and that feeds their totals. But they did well in the pre-conference season.

[B]Cumulative Totals
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(I’ve decided to expand my Top 25 to a Top 68 plus any t ie at the end, (not that a team’s record vs. ranked teams will be the only criteria), to list them in pods of 4 rather than 5 and to put the teams we have played or will play in bold.)

Baylor                                   157 points
Kansas                                  142 points
West Virginia                     136 points
[B]Virginia                                                126 points[/B]

[B]North Carolina                  125 points
Louisville                            119 points
Florida State                      116 points
Duke                                     115 points[/B]

Butler                                    114 points
Kentucky                             113 points
Villanova                              108 points
Kansas State                      106 points

Oregon                                 104 points
Texas Tech                          101 points
Creighton                            97 points
[B]Georgetown                      92 points[/B]

[B]Notre Dame                       91 points
Georgia Tech                     87 points[/B]
Indiana                                 84 points
Iowa State                          81 points

Marquette                          75 points
Gonzaga                              68 points
Arizona                                 67 points
Purdue                                 67 points

[B]Virginia Tech                     66 points[/B]
Syracuse                              65 points
Oklahoma State                                63 points
Florida                                  60 points

Utah                                      60 points
Colorado                              59 points
[B]South Carolina                  54 points[/B]
UCLA                                     54 points

[B]Miami (Florida)                                51 points[/B]
Tennessee                          50 points
Nebraska                             48 points
[B]Pittsburgh                           47 points[/B]

Oklahoma                           46 points
Providence                         46 points
DePaul                                  45 points
[B]North Carolina State      42 points[/B]

Southern California         41 points
[B]St. John’s                             38 points[/B]
Seton Hall                            38 points
California (Berkley)         37 points

Ohio State                           36 points
Texas                                    36 points
[B]Wisconsin                           36 points[/B]
Xavier                                   35 points

Texas Christian                  34 points
[B]Wake Forest                      34 points
Clemson                              33 points[/B]
Georgia                                32 points

Michigan                              32 points
Minnesota                          31 points
Iowa                                      29 points
Michigan State                  29 points

Penn State                          28 points
Texas-Arlington                                28 points
Fort Wayne                        26 points
Northwestern                   26 points

Southern Methodist       26 points
Mississippi                          23 points
Mississippi State               23 points
Vanderbilt                           23 points

Rhode Island                      22 points
Washington                        21 points
Central Florida                   18 points
Cincinnati                            18 points
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