Iowa State's ridiculous win margins

[GusMcCrae]

I did some old fashioned stat analysis myself. (Anyone can correct me if off anywhere) Our win margin heading into the Sweet 16 is obnoxious. A total of +694 for the 29 wins. Now granted a lot of these were early season cupcakes. I isolated the 24 blowouts from what I consider 5 close wins and even in the close wins it's a +23 total difference. We all know the few "bad" loses with point differences, but those were to good teams. Even Cincinnati could be argued not a "bad" loss. The bottom line is when this team is on it suffocates other teams with defense and opponents just give up leading to ridiculous win margins. I'm curious how this would stack up against Arizona and Houston. My guess is they can say something similar. I'm doubtful though outside the conference other than Duke and Michigan could claim this.

Record 29-7
29 win point margins:
24 Blowouts (good teams in caps)
FDU 88-50 +38
Grambling State 102-62 +40
Mississippi State 96-80 +16
Stonehill 96-57 +39
Creighton 78-60 +18
Syracuse 95-64 +31
Alcorn State 132-68 +64
PURDUE 81-58 +23
Eastern Illinois 78-53 +25
Long Beach State 91-60 +31
Houston Christian 89-61 +28
West Virginia 80-59 +21
Oklahoma State 83-71 +22
UCF 87-57 +30
Oklahoma State 84-71 +23
Colorado 97-67 +30
Kansas State 95-61 +34
KANSAS 74-56 +18
Utah 75-59 +16
Arizona State 86-56 +30
Arizona State +49
TEXAS TECH 75-53 +22
Tennessee State 108-74 +34
KENTUCKY 82-63 +19
----
+671
(Blowout game average win margin +28)
5 Close Games (good teams in caps)
ST JOHNS 83-82 +1
IOWA 66-62 +4
Baylor 70-60 +10 (considering a 10 point win a close one)
Baylor 72-67 +5
HOUSTON 70-67 +3
----
+23
(Close game average win margin +4.6)
-----
+694 total win margin
+23.93 average margin of victory
7 Loses (good teams in caps)
KANSAS 63-84 -21
Cincinnati 70-79 -9
TCU 55-62 -7
BYU 69-79 -10
TEXAS TECH 73-82 -9
ARIZONA 57-73 -16
ARIZONA 80-82 -2
----
-74 total loss margin
-10.6 average loss margin
694 win margin - 74 loss margin = +620 total season margin

 

[cyclones12321]

I did some old fashioned stat analysis myself. (Anyone can correct me if off anywhere) Our win margin heading into the Sweet 16 is obnoxious. A total of +694 for the 29 wins. Now granted a lot of these were early season cupcakes. I isolated the 24 blowouts from what I consider 5 close wins and even in the close wins it's a +23 total difference. We all know the few "bad" loses with point differences, but those were to good teams. Even Cincinnati could be argued not a "bad" loss. The bottom line is when this team is on it suffocates other teams with defense and opponents just give up leading to ridiculous win margins. I'm curious how this would stack up against Arizona and Houston. My guess is they can say something similar. I'm doubtful though outside the conference other than Duke and Michigan could claim this.

Record 29-7
29 win point margins:
24 Blowouts (good teams in caps)
FDU 88-50 +38
Grambling State 102-62 +40
Mississippi State 96-80 +16
Stonehill 96-57 +39
Creighton 78-60 +18
Syracuse 95-64 +31
Alcorn State 132-68 +64
PURDUE 81-58 +23
Eastern Illinois 78-53 +25
Long Beach State 91-60 +31
Houston Christian 89-61 +28
West Virginia 80-59 +21
Oklahoma State 83-71 +22
UCF 87-57 +30
Oklahoma State 84-71 +23
Colorado 97-67 +30
Kansas State 95-61 +34
KANSAS 74-56 +18
Utah 75-59 +16
Arizona State 86-56 +30
Arizona State +49
TEXAS TECH 75-53 +22
Tennessee State 108-74 +34
KENTUCKY 82-63 +19
----
+671
(Blowout game average win margin +28)
5 Close Games (good teams in caps)
ST JOHNS 83-82 +1
IOWA 66-62 +4
Baylor 70-60 +10 (considering a 10 point win a close one)
Baylor 72-67 +5
HOUSTON 70-67 +3
----
+23
(Close game average win margin +4.6)
-----
+694 total win margin
+23.93 average margin of victory
7 Loses (good teams in caps)
KANSAS 63-84 -21
Cincinnati 70-79 -9
TCU 55-62 -7
BYU 69-79 -10
TEXAS TECH 73-82 -9
ARIZONA 57-73 -16
ARIZONA 80-82 -2
----
-74 total loss margin
-10.6 average loss margin
694 win margin - 74 loss margin = +620 total season margin

Wonder what Houston and arizona are? Thanks for sharing

 

[chuckd4735]

Love this!

I looked at this on Sunday, but in the month of March, ISU's average point differential is +18.1.

If you throw out the first Arizona game it goes up to +23.8, and if you look at just postseason, it's +24.4.

Playing our best basketball in March!

 

[rosshm16]

It sounds like we win in the margins?

 

[GusMcCrae]

Wonder what Houston and arizona are? Thanks for sharing

I'm curious too. It seems to me they'd be the only ones close to this. Maybe Michigan and Duke? I'm still guessing their conference games were much closer than ours, and those collective top three left of the Big 12. Perhaps Tech as well before losing Toppin.