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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2102688, 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 SEVENTEEN

Virginia beat #5 North Carolina 53-43 =                   31 points
Baylor beat #10 West Virginia 71-62 =                     25 points
Michigan State beat #16 Wisconsin 84-74 =          20 points
Oklahoma State lost to #1 Kansas 85-90 =             20 points
Duke lost to #5 North Carolina 83-90 =                    18 points
Duke beat #15 Florida State 75-70 =                         16 points
North Carolina beat #17 Duke 90-83 =                     16 points
Vanderbilt beat #12 Florida 73-71 =                          16 points
Oklahoma lost to #1 Kansas 63-73 =                         15 points
Central Florida beat #15 Cincinnati 53-49 =            15 points
Louisville beat #19 Notre Dame 71-64 =                                 14 points
Washington State lost to #3 UCLA 68-77 =             14 points
West Virginia beat #24 Iowa State 87-76 =            13 points
Notre Dame lost to #8 Louisville 64-71 =                11 points
Vanderbilt lost to #9 Kentucky 67-73 =                   11 points
Wake Forest beat #8 Louisville 88-81 =                   11 points
Florida State beat #25 U of Miami 66-57 =             10 points
Texas A&M lost to #9 Kentucky 63-71 =                                   9 points
Seton Hall beat #13 Butler 70-64 =                             7 points
Arizona State lost to #7 Arizona 60-73 =                                   6 points
Iowa beat #22 Wisconsin 59-57 =                               6 points
Virginia Tech beat #25 Miami 66-61 =                        6 points
West Virginia lost to #11 Baylor 62-71 =                    6 points
Iowa State lost to #10 West Virginia 76-87 =          5 points
Florida State lost to #17 Duke 70-75 =                      4 points
Texas lost to #11 Baylor 64-75 =                                   4 points
U of Miami lost to #15 Florida State 57-66 =           2 points
Arkansas lost to #12 Florida 65-78 =                           1 point
Georgia Tech lost to #21 Notre Dame 60-64 =        1 point

Comments: there were a lot of point-producing games but not a lot of “big ticket” items. Virginia got 31 from their North Carolina game and Baylor got 25 for beating West Virginia but nobody else got more than 20. Baylor’s output keeps them in first place, where they’ve been all season. Notre Dame joined the 100 point club.

[B]Cumulative Totals[/B]

(I’ve decided to expand my Top 25 to a Top 68 plus any tie 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                                   182 points
[B]North Carolina                  171 points
Virginia                                                157 points[/B]
West Virginia                     155 points

[B]Duke                                     149 points[/B]
Butler                                    146 points
Kansas                                  142 points
[B]Louisville                            140 points[/B]

Kentucky                             136 points
[B]Florida State                      130 points[/B]
Iowa State                          112 points
Villanova                              108 points

Kansas State                      106 points
Creighton                            105 points
Oregon                                 104 points
[B]Notre Dame                       102 points[/B]

Texas Tech                          101 points
[B]Georgetown                      92 points
Miami (Florida)                                88 points
Georgia Tech                     88 points[/B]

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

Marquette                          75 points
Oklahoma                           72 points
[B]Virginia Tech                     72 points[/B]
Gonzaga                              68 points

Purdue                                 67 points
Florida                                  65 points
Oklahoma State                                63 points
Utah                                      60 points

Colorado                              59 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
Vanderbilt                           50 points
Iowa                                      49 points
Michigan State                  49 points

Texas                                    49 points
Brigham Young                  48 points
Nebraska                             48 points
Minnesota                          47 points

[B]Pittsburgh                           47 points[/B]
DePaul                                  45 points
Seton Hall                            45 points
[B]Wake Forest                      45 points[/B]

[B]North Carolina State      42 points
Clemson                              38 points
St. John’s                             38 points[/B]
Oklahoma State                                37 points

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

Central Florida                   33 points
Georgia                                32 points
Arizona 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
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