Against Ranked Teams - Basketball - Week #7

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(There are no games between ranked teams this weekend so I might as well post this now.)

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 7 (12/19-25)
San Francisco beat #25 Arizona State 97-60 = +38
Missouri beat #16 Illinois 93-71 = +32
Wake Forest beat #14 Duke 81-70 = +23
U of Miami beat #6 Virginia 66-64 = +22
Drake beat #15 Mississippi State 58-52 = +17
Georgetown lost to #2 Connecticut 73-84 = +13
Boston College beat #21 Virginia Tech 70-65 = +10
Harvard lost to #4 Kansas 54-68 = +8
Providence beat #24 Marquette 103-98 = +7
Montana lost to #11 Gonzaga 75-85 = +5
New Orleans lost to #1 Purdue 53-74 = +4
Northwestern Louisiana lost to #12 Baylor 48-58 = +4
Utah lost to #20 Texas Christian 71-75 = +2
Virginia lost to #22 U of Miami 64-66 = +2
Montana State lost to #5 Arizona 64-85 = 0
Jackson State lost to #9 Alabama 64-84 = -3
Morgan State lost to #5 Arizona 68-93 = -4
Kennesaw State lost to #18 Indiana 55-69 = -6
Louisiana lost to #7 Texas 72-100 = -9
Florida A&M lost to #19 Kentucky 68-88 = -13
UC Davis lost to #13 UCLA 54-81 = -14
Elon lost to #18 Indiana 72-96 = -16
McNeese lost to #3 Houston 44-83 = -16
UNC Asheville lost to #10 Arkansas 51-85 = -18
Washington at #23 Auburn 61-84 = -20
Austin Peay State lost to #8 Tennessee 44-86 = -24


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

Gonzaga +66
Creighton +65
Tennessee +65
Virginia +59
Illinois +58

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

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

San Francisco +38
Arizona State +31
St. Mary’s +31
Rutgers +31
Colorado +30


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
WEEK 7 San Francisco beat #25 Arizona State 97-60 = +38

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 7 San Francisco beat #25 Arizona State 97-60 = +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