Great Teams of the 21st Century - Value Add Basketball Game

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March Madness' 42 Greatest Teams of the 21st Century group into the following six 7-team conferences to play off using the Value Add Basketball Dice Game. We chose only the best year for each school with team(s) that either made the Final Four or ranked in the top five at www.kenpom.com.

The teams were ranked based on how far their went in March Madness, followed by seed, with the team's rating at www.kenpom.com as the final tie-breaker. Here are the 42 Great Teams:

ACC (Past & Present)

Team	Year	Conf	How far they went	Seed
Virginia	2019	ACC	Champion	1
Duke	2010	ACC	Champion	1
North Carolina	2005	ACC	Champion	1
Maryland	2002	ACC	Champion	1
Syracuse	2003	Big East	Champion	3
Georgia Tech	2004	ACC	Runner-Up	3
Pittsburgh	2009	Big East	Pomeroy 3rd	1

The ACC boasts four of the nine teams in the game that won the National Championship after also meriting a 1-seed, and would have more if we allowed more than one team per school. The addition of great teams from Pittsburgh and Syracuse, who were actually in the Big East during their runs, makes this conference so loaded that we play to allow the top two teams in the round robin into the Elite 8 tourament at the end, and even have the third place team in the 4-team play-in for the last spot. UVa ranks as the highest of the four 1-seed champions based on the highest www.kenpom.com rating.

Big 12 (&A10)

Team	Year	Conf	How far they went	Seed
Kansas	2008	Big 12	Champion	1
Texas Tech	2019	Big 12	Runner-Up	3
Texas	2003	Big 12	Final 4	1
Oklahoma State	2004	Big 12	Final 4	2
Oklahoma	2002	Big 12	Final 4	2
West Virginia	2010	Big East	Final 4	2
Saint Joseph's	2004	A10	Pomeroy 3rd	1

Texas Tech's near miss of a second Big 12 champion boasts them as the second seeded team in this round robin. The second place team in the round robin will play the third place team in the ACC in one preliminary semifinal for the 8th and final spot in the tournament.

Big East (past & present)

Team	Year	Conf	How far they went	Seed
Villanova	2018	Big East	Champion	1
Louisville	2013	Big East	Champion	1
Connecticut	2004	Big East	Champion	2
Butler	2010	Horizon	Runner-Up	5
Georgetown	2007	Big East	Final 4	2
Marquette	2003	CUSA	Final 4	3
Cincinnati	2002	Big East	Pomeroy 2nd	1

While some great Big East teams were placed in their current ACC or Big 12, we kept the Louisville 2013 national champions and the Marquette and Butler who joined the Big East after Final Four runs. The second place team in the round robin will play the SEC second place team in the other semifinal for the final Elite 8 spot.

Big Ten

Team	Year	Conf	How far they went	Seed
Wisconsin	2015	Big Ten	Runner-Up	1
Illinois	2005	Big Ten	Runner-Up	1
Ohio State	2007	Big Ten	Runner-Up	1
Michigan State	2009	Big Ten	Runner-Up	2
Michigan	2018	Big Ten	Runner-Up	3
Indiana	2002	Big Ten	Runner-Up	5
Purdue	2018	Big Ten	Pomeroy 5th	2

The "near miss" conference boasts six great teams who lost in the title game and then Purdue, who were kept out of the Final Four only by a miracle scenario by UVa.

Pac12 (WCC,MVC,CUSA)

Team	Year	Conf	How far they went	Seed
Memphis	2008	CUSA	Runner-Up	1
Gonzaga	2017	WCC	Runner-Up	1
UCLA	2006	Pac-10	Runner-Up	2
Oregon	2017	Pac-12	Final 4	3
Wichita State	2013	MVC	Final 4	9
Loyola-Chicago	2018	MVC	Final 4	11
Arizona	2015	Pac-12	Pomeroy 4th	2

Since three Pac-12 teams dominated the conference runs, we put several of the other great teams from other conferences together with them to make a seven team conference, including the Memphis and Gonzaga teams that just missed the title and two Missouri Valley Cinderellas.

SEC (& Colonial)

Team	Year	Conf	How far they went	Seed
Kentucky	2012	Southeastern	Champion	1
Florida	2007	Southeastern	Champion	1
LSU	2006	Southeastern	Final 4	4
Auburn	2019	Southeastern	Final 4	5
South Carolina	2017	Southeastern	Final 4	7
George Mason	2006	Colonial	Final 4	11
VCU	2011	Colonial	Final 4	11

The 2015 Kentucky Wildcats are likely the best team of the Century, but since Wisconsin upset them in the semifinal it falls to the best college basketball player of the century - Anthony Davis - to represent them in a conference that includes another of the most dominant teams of the century in Florida.