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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2024223, 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 NINE

Butler beat #1 Villanova 66-58 =                                33 points
No. Carolina St. beat #21 Virginia Tech 104-78 = 31 points
Pittsburgh beat #11 Virginia 88-76 =                         27 points
Notre Dame beat #9 Louisville 77-70 =                    24 points
Iowa State lost to #2 Baylor 63-65 =                         22 points
Kansas State lost to #3 Kansas 88-90 =                    21 points
Florida State beat #21 Virginia Tech 93-78 =          20 points
Minnesota beat #15 Purdue 91-80 =                        20 points
Oklahoma State lost to #2 Baylor 57-61 =               20 points
Texas Tech beat #7 West Virginia 77-76 =              20 points
Marquette lost to #1 Villanova 81-93 =                   13 points
California lost to #4 UCLA  71-81 =                             12 points
Clemson lost to #14 North Carolina 86-89 =           9 points
Wisconsin beat #25 Indiana 75-68 =                           8 points
Boston College lost to #8 Duke 82-93 =                     7 points
Texas Christian lost to #7 West Virginia 70-82 =    7 points
Indiana lost to #13 Wisconsin 68-75 =                       6 points
San Francisco lost to #5 Gonzaga 80-95 =                 6 points
Texas Tech lost to #3 Kansas 68-85 =                        6 points
Ohio State lost to #20 Purdue 75-76 =                       5 points
St. John’s lost to #10 Creighton 72-85 =                   3 points
Georgia Tech lost to #9 Louisville 50-65 =                 2 points
Providence lost to #10 Creighton 64-78 =               2 points

[B]Cumulative Totals[/B]

[B]Top 25[/B]

Baylor                                   109 points
Butler                                    91 points
Louisville                              80 points
Kentucky                             79 points
Indiana                                 68 points

Oregon                                 53 points
Duke                                    47 points
Notre Dame                       47 points
Florida State                       46 points
North Carolina                   46 points

Creighton                            44 points
Kansas                                  38 points
South Carolina                   38 points
Villanova                              37 points
Wisconsin                            36 points

Iowa State                          35 points
Purdue                                 35 points
Virginia Tech                      35 points
Ohio State                           34 points
Arizona                                 33 points

UCLA                                     33 points
Virginia                                 32 points
Georgia Tech                     31 points
North Carolina State       31 points
Michigan State                  29 points
West Virginia                     29 points

Syracuse                                0 points              (95 teams have earned points so far this year)
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