Against Ranked Teams - Basketball - 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.

(The last couple of years I’ve also kept track of ranked team’s performances vs. unranked teams by totaling the points gained or lost against them but that was a lot of extra work and tended to favor schools with weak schedules so I’m dropping that measure this year, as I did for the football version of this.)

WEEK 6 (12/12-18)
Kansas beat #14 Indiana 84-62 = +34
UCLA beat #20 Maryland 87-60 = +33
Gonzaga beat #4 Alabama 100-90 = +32
Houston beat #2 Virginia 69-61 = +32
Arizona beat #6 Tennessee 75-70 = +25
UCLA beat #13 Kentucky 63-53 = +23
Memphis lost to #4 Alabama 88-91 = +19
Davidson lost to #1 Purdue 61-69 = +17
Virginia lost to #5 Houston 61-69 = +13
Rice Lost to #7 Texas 81-87 = +13
Tennessee lost to #9 Arizona 70-75 = +12
Southern California beat #19 Auburn 74-71 = +10
Stanford lost to #7 Texas 62-72 = +9
Washington State lost to #11 Baylor 59-65 = +9
North Carolina lost to #23 Ohio State 89-84 = +8
Nicholls lost to #17 Mississippi State 66-68 = +7
Alabama lost to #15 Gonzaga 90-100 = +1
Butler lost to #3 Connecticut 46-68 = +1
Kentucky lost to #16 UCLA 53-63 = 0
Georgia State lost to #19 Auburn 64-72 = -1
Jackson State lost to #17 Mississippi State 59-69 = -1
Bradley lost to #10 Arkansas 57-76 = -3
North Carolina A&T lost to #5 Houston 46-74 = -7
Northern Illinois lost to #15 Gonzaga 67-88 = -10
Alabama A&M lost to #18 Illinois 47-68 = -13
St Francis (Pa) lost to #25 U of Miami 76-91 = -14
Maryland lost to #16 UCLA 60-87 = -17
Lehigh lost to #22 Wisconsin 56-78 = -18
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi lost to #9 Arizona 61-99 = -21
Grambling lost to #24 Virginia Tech 48-74 = -24
Mississippi Valley State lost to #21 Texas Christian 43-88 = -40

TOP 25
Arizona +95
Alabama +75
Purdue +75
UCLA +70
Texas +69

Gonzaga +66
Creighton +65
Tennessee +65
Illinois +58
Virginia +57

Michigan State +54
Kansas +48
Marquette +46
Houston +44
Nebraska +44

Memphis +43
Wisconsin +40
Baylor +39
Xavier +39
Utah +37

Arizona State +31
St. Mary’s +31
Rutgers +31
Colorado +30
Florida State +29


The worst performance against ranked teams so far is that of Mississippi Valley State (-83)
Syracuse has -19 points after the Illinois game.

WEEKLY CHAMPIONS:
WEEK 1 Michigan State lost to #2 Gonzaga 63-64 = +23
WEEK 2 Texas beat #2 Gonzaga 93-74 = +43
WEEK 3 Purdue beat #6 Gonzaga 84-66 = +38
WEEK 4 Marquette beat #6 Baylor 70-96 = +46
WEEK 5 Alabama beat #1 Houston 71-65 = +31
Illinois beat #2 Texas 85-78 = +31
WEEK 6 Kansas beat #14 Indiana 84-62 = +34

TOP TEN PERFORMANCES:
WEEK 4 Marquette beat #6 Baylor 96-70 = +46
WEEK 2 Texas beat #2 Gonzaga 93-74 = +43
WEEK 2 Gonzaga beat #4 Kentucky 88-72 = +38
WEEK 3 Purdue beat #6 Gonzaga 84-66 = +38
WEEK 3 Purdue beat #8 Duke 75-56 = +37
WEEK 3 Tennessee beat #3 Kansas 64-50 = +37
WEEK 4 Utah beat #4 Arizona 81-66 = +37
WEEK 6 Kansas beat #14 Indiana 84-62 = +34
WEEK 6 UCLA beat #20 Maryland 87-60 = +33
WEEK 6 Gonzaga beat #4 Alabama 100-90 = +32
WEEK 6 Houston beat #2 Virginia 69-61 = +32