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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2074512, 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 FOURTEEN

Virginia beat #4 Louisville 71-55 =                              38 points
Duke beat #8 North Carolina 86-78 =                       26 points
Notre Dame beat #14 Florida State 84-72 =          24 points
Texas Tech lost to #3 Kansas 79-80 =                       22 points
Kansas State lost to #3 Kansas 71-74 =                    20 points
UCLA beat #9 Oregon 82-79 =                                     20 points
Nebraska lost to #7 Wisconsin 69-70 =                    18 points
Villanova beat #24 Xavier 73-57 =                              18 points
Miami lost to #4 Louisville 66-71 =                             17 points
Oklahoma State lost to #6 Baylor 69-72 =               17 points
Gonzaga beat #20 St. Mary’s 74-64 =                       16 points
St. Mary’s lost to #1 Gonzaga 64-74 =                      15 points
Georgetown lost to #2 Villanova 64-75 =                               13 points
North Carolina beat #20 Notre Dame 83-76 =      13 points
Oregon lost to #10 UCLA 79-82 =                               13 points
California lost to #9 Arizona 57-62 =                         12 points
Alabama beat #19 South Carolina 90-86 =              11 points
Indiana lost to #10 Wisconsin 60-65 =                      11 points
Southern California lost to #5 Oregon 70-81 =     10 points
Stanford lost to #9 Arizona 67-74 =                           10 points
Penn State beat #21 Maryland 70-64 =                     9 points
Xavier lost to #2 Villanova 57-73 =                              8 points
Notre Dame lost to #12 North Carolina 76-83 =     7 points
Clemson lost to #18 Duke 62-64 =                              6 points
Central Florida lost to #11 Cincinnati 50-60 =          5 points
Indiana lost to #16 Purdue 64-69 =                            5 points
Louisiana State lost to #15 Kentucky 85-92 =         4 points
Marquette lost to #22 Butler 65-68 =                         3 points
Mississippi St. lost to #19 South Carolina 73-77 =  3 points
Alabama lost to #15 Kentucky 58-67 =                       2 points
Oklahoma lost to #13 West Virginia 50-61 =           2 points
Texas Christian lost to #6 Baylor 52-70 =                  2 points

Comments:

I find it interesting that there are never any games against ranked teams on Fridays. How do they know ahead of time who is going to be ranked?

Virginia, despite their defeat by SU, forged ahead and have joined the 100 club in a big way, all the way to #2 in the standings. Villanova, Kansas State and Oregon also joined the group, which is now a Top 10.

I’ve decided to expand my Top 25 to a Top 68 plus any t ie at the end, (not that a team’s record vs. ranked teams will be the only criteria), to list them in pods of 4 rather than 5 and to put the teams we have played or will play in bold.

[B]Cumulative Totals[/B]

[B]Top 68[/B]

Baylor                                   136 points
[B]Virginia                                                122 points
Louisville                            119 points
Florida State                      116 points[/B]

West Virginia                     115 points
Butler                                    114 points
Kentucky                             113 points
Villanova                              108 points

Kansas State                      106 points
Oregon                                 104 points
Creighton                            97 points
Kansas                                  95 points

[B]Duke                                     93 points
Georgetown                      92 points
Notre Dame                       91 points
North Carolina                  89 points[/B]

[B]Georgia Tech                     87 points[/B]
Indiana                                 84 points
Iowa State                          81 points
Marquette                          75 points

Gonzaga                              68 points
Arizona                                 67 points
Purdue                                 67 points
Texas Tech                          65 points

Oklahoma State                                63 points
Florida                                  60 points
Colorado                              59 points
Utah                                      59 points

[B]South Carolina                  54 points[/B]
UCLA                                     54 points
[B]Miami (Florida)                                51 points
[I]Syracuse                              51 points[/I][/B]

Tennessee                          50 points
Nebraska                             48 points
[B]Pittsburgh                           47 points[/B]
Oklahoma                           46 points

Providence                         46 points
[B]North Carolina State      42 points[/B]
Southern California         41 points
[B]St. John’s                             38 points[/B]

California (Berkley)         37 points
Ohio State                           36 points
Texas                                    36 points
[B]Virginia Tech                     36 points[/B]

[B]Wisconsin                           36 points[/B]
Xavier                                   35 points
DePaul                                  34 points
Texas Christian                  34 points

[B]Clemson                              33 points[/B]
Minnesota                          31 points
Iowa                                      29 points
Michigan State                  29 points

Penn State                          28 points
Texas-Arlington                                28 points
Fort Wayne                        26 points
[B]Wake Forest                      25 points[/B]

Georgia                                24 points
Mississippi                          23 points
Seton Hall                            23 points
Rhode Island                      22 points

Central Florida                   18 points
Cincinnati                            18 points
Mississippi State               17 points
Oklahoma State                                17 points

Stanford                              17 points
Wagner                                                17 points
Lehigh                                   16 points
Brigham Young                  15 points

Davidson                             15 points
Oral Roberts                       15 points
Oregon State                     15 points
St. Mary’s                            15 points
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