Against Ranked Teams (BB) Week 12

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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 12 (1/22-28/18)
Virginia beat #18 Clemson 61-36 = +33 points
Virginia Tech beat #10 North Carolina 80-69 = +27 points
Kentucky beat #7 West Virginia 83-76 = +26 points
Texas Christian beat #7 West Virginia 82-73 = +26 points
Virginia beat #4 Duke 65-63 = +24 points
Duke lost to #2 Virginia 63-65 = +22 points
Marquette lost to #1 Villanova 82-85 = +22 points
Alabama beat #12 Oklahoma 80-73 = +21 points
Maryland lost to #5 Michigan State 68-74 = +20 points
North Carolina State beat #10 North Carolina 95-91 = +20 points
Michigan lost to #3 Purdue 88-92 = +19 points
Indiana lost to #3 Purdue 67-74 = +16 points
Penn State beat #13 Ohio State 82-79 = +16 points
Oklahoma beat #5 Kansas 85-80 = +16 points
Utah lost to #11 Arizona 73-74 = +14 points
South Carolina beat #20 Florida 77-72 = +11 points
Texas A&M lost to #5 Kansas 68-79 = +10 points
Colorado lost to #11 Arizona 71-80 = +9 points
Kansas lost to #12 Oklahoma 80-85 = +9 points
Nebraska lost to #13 Ohio State 59-64 = +8 points
Utah beat #21 Arizona State 80-77 = +8 points
Illinois lost to #6 Michigan State 74-87 = +7 points
Oklahoma State lost to #14 Texas Tech 70-75 = +7 points
Georgia Tech lost to #18 Clemson 70-72 = +6 points
Providence lost to #1 Villanova 69-89 = +5 points
Purdue beat #25 Michigan 92-88 = +5 points
South Carolina lost to #14 Texas Tech 63-70 = +5 points
Wisconsin lost to #6 Michigan State 61-76 = +5 points
Wyoming beat #23 Nevada-Reno 104-103 = +4 points
Memphis lost to #9 Cincinnati 48-62 = +3 points
San Francisco lost to #15 Gonzaga 73-82 = +2 points
Clemson lost to #2 Virginia 36-61 = -1 point
Duquesne lost to #24 Rhode Island 58-61 = -1 points
Marquette lost to #8 Xavier 70-89 = -1 point
Vanderbilt lost to #22 Tennessee 62-67 = -1 point
Brigham Young lost to #16 St. Mary’s 62-75 = -3 points
Portland lost to #15 Gonzaga 79-95 = -5 points
Portland lost to #16 St. Mary’s 55-72 = -7 points
Wake Forest lost to #4 Duke 70-84 = -8 points
Colorado lost to #21 Arizona State 66-80 = -9 points
Central Florida lost to #17 Wichita State 62-81 = -10 points
Tulsa lost to #17 Wichita State 71-90 = -10 points
Missouri lost to #19 Auburn 73-91 = -11 points
Baylor lost to #20 Florida 60-81 = -15 points
Temple lost to #9 Cincinnati 42-75 = -16 points
Fordham lost to #24 Rhode island 58-78 = -18 points
Louisiana State lost to #19 Auburn 70-95 = -18 points
Iowa State lost to #22 Tennessee 45-68 = -19 points

Comments: Virginia had a very good week and West Virginia had a bad one. So did North Carolina, whose ranking seems to have bene based on the “laundry”. Villanova and Purdue keep rolling along. Michigan State got a couple of wins under difficult circumstances. Gonzaga keeps winning but other than St. Mary’s, there’s no one in their conference who could burnish their reputation.

Top 25

Texas Tech +142 points
Oklahoma +117 points
North Carolina State +95 points
Duke +93 points
Michigan State +92 points

Xavier +91 points
Florida +90 points
Alabama +85 points
Marquette +84 points
Virginia +84 points

Florida State +73 points
Texas A&M +73 points
Purdue +72 points
Texas Christian +71 points
Villanova +70 points

Michigan +69 points
Kansas +67 points
Southern Methodist +65 points
Arizona State +64 points
Nebraska +62 points

West Virginia +55 points
Texas +54 points
Oklahoma State +48 points
Tennessee +48 points
Iowa State +45 points

Syracuse has +16 points from the losses to Kansas, Virginia and Florida State
Our future opponents: Georgia Tech +24 Virginia +84 Louisville -24 Wake Forest +2 North Carolina State +95 Miami +38 North Carolina +36 Duke +93 Boston College +19 Clemson +24

The worst team so far is Savannah State with -151 points.

 

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