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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2094342, 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 SIXTEEN
Brigham Young beat #1 Gonzaga 79-71 =               33 points
Butler beat #2 Villanova 74-66 =                                                32 points
North Carolina beat #7 Louisville 74-63 =               30 points
UCLA beat #4 Arizona 77-72 =                                     27 points
Michigan beat #14 Purdue 82-70 =                           24 points
Kentucky beat #13 Florida 76-66 =                            23 points
U of Miami beat #10 Duke 55-50 =                            21 points
Iowa State beat #9 Baylor 72-69 =                             20 points
Ohio State beat #16 Wisconsin 83-73 =                   20 points
Syracuse beat #10 Duke 78-75 =                                19 points
Stanford lost to #6 Oregon 73-75 =                           18 points
California lost to #6 Oregon 65-68 =                         17 points
Arizona lost to #5 UCLA 72-77 =                                 16 points
Minnesota beat #24 Maryland 89-75 =                   16 points
Iowa beat #24 Maryland 83-69 =                               14 points         
U of Miami beat #18 Virginia 54-48 =                       14 points
Wisconsin beat #23 Maryland 71-60 =                     14 points
Texas lost to #3 Kansas 67-77 =                                  13 points
Texas Christian lost to #12 West Virginia 60-61 = 13 points
Oklahoma lost to #9 Baylor 54-60 =                          11 points
Arizona State lost to #5 UCLA 75-87 =                       9 points
Southern California lost to #4 Arizona  77-90 =     9 points
Creighton lost to #2 Villanova 63-79 =                      8 points
Penn State lost to #14 Purdue 70-74 =                     8 points
Louisville lost to #8 North Carolina 63-74 =             7 points
Clemson lost to #19 Florida State 74-76 =                5 points
Florida lost to #11 Kentucky 66-76 =                           5 points
Missouri lost to #11 Kentucky 62-72 =                       5 points
Providence beat #23 Creighton 68-66 =                    5 points
Maryland lost to #11 Wisconsin 60-71 =                   4 points
Texas Christian lost to #3 Kansas68-87 =                                  3 points
Connecticut lost to #17 Southern Methodist  61-69 =       2 points

Comments: North Carolina is now within 2 points of Baylor and is probably the bets team in the country right now. Creighton and  Iowa State joined the 100 point club.

[B]Cumulative Totals[/B]

(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
[B]North Carolina                  155 points[/B]
Butler                                    146 points
Kansas                                  142 points

Kentucky                             136 points
West Virginia                     136 points
[B]Louisville                            126 points
Virginia                                                126 points[/B]

[B]Florida State                      116 points
Duke                                     115 points[/B]
Villanova                              108 points
Iowa State                          107 points

Kansas State                      106 points
Creighton                            105 points
Oregon                                 104 points
Texas Tech                          101 points

[B]Georgetown                      92 points
Notre Dame                       91 points
Georgia Tech                     87 points
Miami (Florida)                                86 points[/B]

Indiana                                 84 points
Syracuse                              84 points
Arizona                                 83 points
UCLA                                     81 points

Marquette                          75 points
Gonzaga                              68 points
Purdue                                 67 points
[B]Virginia Tech                     66 points[/B]

Florida                                  65 points
Oklahoma State                                63 points
Utah                                      60 points
Colorado                              59 points

Oklahoma                           57 points
Michigan                              56 points
Ohio State                           56 points
California (Berkley)         54 points

[B]South Carolina                  54 points[/B]
Southern California         50 points
Providence                         51 points
Tennessee                          50 points

Texas Christian                  50 points
Texas                                    49 points
Brigham Young                  48 points
Nebraska                             48 points

Minnesota                          47 points
[B]Pittsburgh                           47 points[/B]
DePaul                                  45 points
Iowa                                      43 points

[B]North Carolina State      42 points
Clemson                              38 points
St. John’s                             38 points[/B]
Seton Hall                            38 points

Penn State                          36 points
[B]Wisconsin                           36 points[/B]
Stanford                              35 points
Xavier                                   35 points

[B]Wake Forest                      34 points[/B]
Georgia                                32 points
Michigan State                  29 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
Arizona State                     22 points
Rhode Island                      22 points
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