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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2847415, member: 289"] (I missed this last week so i'm doing two weeks in one post now.) This year I will be again charting how teams have done “against ranked teams”, which is something that always comes up at the end of the year when the arguments over who should be in the NCAA tournament start. As usual, this is not meant to end those arguments, just to give those making them something to look at in forming their opinions. This is just one thing to look at. But I think it’s a big thing. I’m going to do it a bit differently this year. The old procedure was that I would first grant teams playing ranked teams a certain number of points based on who they are playing. If you played the #1 team, (I use the AP- writer’s poll for continuity), you get 25 points. If you are playing the #2 team, you get 24 points, etc. down to getting 1 point for playing the #25 team. I call these “schedule points”. Here’s a chart to make it simple: 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. (Of course you can always just subtract the ranking from 26. That will work every time.) Then I look at the point differential in the actual game. If you defeated the ranked team, you add the number of points you won by to the schedule points. If you lost to that team, you subtract the margin you lost by from the schedule points. (I call these ‘game’ points.) The difference between this year and last year if that I didn’t count any deficit: if you got to zero, you got zero. This year I’m going to try to record negative points, too, so a team can get full ‘credit’ for a really bad performance. WEEK SEVEN Arizona State beat #1 Kansas 80-76 = +29 points Marquette beat #14 Buffalo 103-85 = +28 points North Carolina State beat #7 Auburn 78-71 = +26 points Duke beat #12 Texas Tech 69-58 = +25 points Kentucky beat #9 North Carolina 80-72 = +25 points Vanderbilt beat #18 Arizona State 81-65 = +24 points Louisiana State beat #24 Furman 75-57 = +20 points Akron lost to #6 Nevada-Reno 62-68 +14 points Murray State lost to #7 Auburn 88-93 = +14 points Texas Tech lost to #2 Duke 58-69 = +13 points Samford lost to #3 Tennessee 70-83 = +10 points Wright State lost to #17 Mississippi State 63-67 = +5 points Kansas lost to #18 Arizona State 76-80 = +4 points South Carolina lost to #5 Virginia 52-69 = +4 points Wake Forest lost to #3 Tennessee 64-83 = +4 points Air Force lost to #4 Michigan 50-71 = +1 point North Florida lost to #11 Florida State 81-95 = +1 point Syracuse lost to #14 Buffalo 59-71 = 0 points North Carolina lost to #19 Kentucky 72-80 = -1 points Southeast Missouri lost to #11 Florida State 68-85 = -2 points Wofford lost to #17 Mississippi State 87-98 = -2 points UCLA lost to #15 Ohio State 66-80 = -3 points Utah State lost to #21 Houston 50-60 = -5 points Saint Louis lost to #11 Florida State 59-81 = -7 points Youngstown lost to #15 Ohio State 56-75 = -8 points North Carolina A&T lost to #13 Virginia Tech 60-82 = -9 points South Dakota lost to #1 Kansas 53-89 = -11 points William & Mary lost to #5 Virginia 40-72 = -11 points Buffalo lost to #20 Marquette 85-103 = -12 points Oakland lost to #10 Michigan State 69-99 = -14 points Western Carolina lost to #23 Iowa 60-78 = -15 points UT Arlington lost to #8 Gonzaga 55-89 = -16 points North Dakota lost to #20 Marquette 66-92 = -20 points Grambling lost to #16 Wisconsin 53-84 = -21 points Fullerton State lost to #25 Nebraska 62-86 = -23 points Coppin State lost to #21 Houston 44-75 = -26 points Jacksonville lost to #22 Indiana 64-94 = -26 points Princeton lost to #2 Duke 50-101 = -27 points Central Arkansas lost to #22 Indiana 53-86 = -29 points Denver lost to #8 Gonzaga 40-101 = -43 points Savannah State lost to #23 Iowa 64-110 = -43 points Comments: I’m glad we will be getting into the conference seasons now and the games against the likes of Savannah State will be over. The games will take on greater meaning. That said, there were some interesting confrontations and the #1 team went down for the third time this season. SU negated the schedule points they got playing the #14 team by losing by the same margin. Akron (+21) now has more points than we do (+18) WEEK EIGHT Western Kentucky beat #15 Wisconsin 83-76 = +18 points Princeton beat #17 Arizona State 67-66 = +10 points Utah lost to #6 Nevada-Reno 71-86 = +5 points Binghamton lost to #2 Michigan 52-74 = +2 points Eastern Michigan lost to #5 Kansas 63-87 = -3 points Bryant lost to #24 Iowa 59-80 = -3 points Louisville lost to #16 Kentucky 58-71 = -3 points High Point lost to #13 Ohio State 64-82 = -5 points Canisius lost to #21 Buffalo 72-87 = -10 points Davidson lost to #14 North Carolina 60-82 = -10 points Northern Illinois lost to #8 Michigan State 60-88 = -10 points Rio Grande Valley lost to #11 Texas Tech 46-71 = -10 points Brigham Young lost to #19 Mississippi State 81-103 = -15 points New Jersey Tech lost to #22 Houston 59-80 = -17 points Tennessee Tech lost to #3 Tennessee 53-96 = -20 points North Alabama lost to #7 Gonzaga 51-96 = -26 points Loyola (Md.) lost to #20 North Carolina State 64-97 = -27 points Maryland Eastern Shore lost to #10 Virginia Tech 40-85 = -29 points North Florida lost to #12 Auburn 49-95 = -32 points Southern University lost to #18 Marquette 41-84 = -35 points Comments: At least, we’d reached the end of the scheduled blow-outs, although if SU doesn’t get it’s act together we might be remembering this period with fondness. But for “Against Ranked Teams” it was tepid period. (Week Eight had no impact on the Top 25.) Now it gets real. THE TOP 25 Duke +128 points Michigan +103 points Marquette +88 points Michigan State +79 points North Carolina +62 points Kansas +64 points Arizona State +59 points Tennessee +46 points Gonzaga +44 points Auburn +42 points Wisconsin +33 points Louisville +28 points Indiana +27 points Furman +26 points North Carolina State +26 points Oregon +26 points Connecticut +25 points Louisiana State +25 points Vanderbilt +24 points Akron +21 points New Mexico State +21 points Tulsa +21 points Villanova +21 points Northwestern +19 points Purdue +19 points Syracuse has +18 points The worst total so far is Tennessee Tech with -104 points [/QUOTE]

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