All-Time Great 20th Centuries Team Picked for Value Add Basketball Game

In addition to the all-time teams of the 21st Century in the Value Add Basketball Game, cards will be released for the all-time teams of the 20th Century. Factors considered were how far teams went in the post season as well as if they featured one of the top 50 players of all time according to either Grantland, Bleacher Reports or ESPN. Each school could only have one team - the toughest choices being Bill Walton's best UCLA team being slightly better than Lew Alcindor's best UCLA team, even though Alcindor was slightly better than Walton as the best player in the history of college basketball.

Yr	ACC	W	L	Finish	Top 50 All-Time or Best Player	Top 50 All-Time?
74	NC State	30	1	Champion	David Thompson	4
92	Duke	34	2	Champion	Laettner & Hurley	8 & 42
82	UNC	32	2	Champion	Jordan & Worthy	12 & 50
81	Virginia	29	4	Final Four	Ralph Sampson	5
80	Louisville	33	3	Champion	Darrell Griffith	27
96	Wake Forest	26	6	Elite 8	Tim Duncan	22
87	Syracuse	31	7	Runner up	Rony Seikaly	NBA9
70	Notre Dame	21	8	Peak AP No. 6	Austin Carr	14
Conf	Big 12	W	L	Finish	Top 50 All-Time or Best Player	Top 50 All-Time?
46	Oklahoma St	31	2	Champion	Bob Kurland	23
57	Kansas	24	3	Runner up	Wilt Chamberlain	6
60	Cincinnati	28	2	NCAA 3rd place	Oscar Robertson	2
68	Houston	31	2	Final Four	Elvin Hayes	6
66	UTEP	28	1	Champion	Dave Lattin	NBA10
82	Missouri	27	4	Peaked AP 1	Steve Stipanovich	NBA2
85	Oklahoma	31	6	Elite 8	Wayman Tisdale	21
59	West Virginia	26	5	Runner up	Jerry West	7
Conf	Big East	W	L	Finish	Top 50 All-Time or Best Player	Top 50 All-Time?
99	Connecticut	34	2	Champion	Richard Hamilton	All-A, NBA3
84	Georgetown	34	3	Champion	Patrick Ewing & Michael Graham	15&40
85	St. John's	31	4	Final Four	Walter Berry & Chris Mullin	6 & 40
77	Marquette	25	7	Champion	Butch Lee	30
85	Villanova	25	10	Champion	Ed Pinckney	NBA10
89	Seton Hall	31	7	Runner up	John Morton	NBA25
65	Princeton	23	6	NCAA 3rd place	Bill Bradley	8
45	DePaul	21	3	Won NIT	George Mikan	24
Conf	Big Ten	W	L	Finish	Top 50 All-Time or Best Player	Top 50 All-Time?
76	Indiana	32	0	Champion	Scott May	35
60	Ohio State	25	3	Champion	Jerry Lucas	13
79	Michigan State	26	6	Champion	Magic Johnson	11
89	Michigan	30	7	Champion	Glen Rice	23
69	Purdue	23	5	Runner up	Rick Mount	32
63	Loyola	29	2	Champion	Jerry Harness	All-A
54	La Salle	26	4	Champion	Tom Gola	15
79	Indiana State	33	1	Runner up	Larry Bird	8
Conf	Pac 12	W	L	Finish	Top 50 All-Time or Best Player	Top 50 All-Time?
72	UCLA	30	0	Champion	Bill Walton	3
91	UNLV	34	1	Final 4	L. Johnson & Augmon	29 & 47
97	Arizona	25	9	Champion	Mike Bibby	All-A, NBA2
56	San Francisco	29	0	Champion	Bill Russell	4
98	Utah	30	4	Runner up	Andre Miller	All-A, NBA8
59	California	25	4	Champion	Darrall Imhoff	All-A, NBA8
58	Seattle	23	6	Runner up	Elgin Baylor	21
43	Wyoming	31	2	Champion	Ken Sailors	Inv. Jumper
Conf	SEC	W	L	Finish	Top 50 All-Time or Best Player	Top 50 All-Time?
96	Kentucky	34	2	Champion	Tony Delk	All-A, NBA16
94	Arkansas	31	3	Champion	Corliss Williamson	NBA13
77	Tennessee	22	6	Peaked AP 7th	Bernard King	All-A, NBA7
77	Alabama	25	6	Peak AP No. 3	Reggie King	NBA18
86	Navy	30	5	Peak AP 17	David Robinson	23
84	Auburn	20	11	Peak AP No. 16	Charles Barkley	NBA5
82	Georgia	19	12	NIT Semis	Dominique Wilkins	NBA3
70	LSU	22	10	NIT Semis	Pete Maravich	2

As with the 21st Century teams, eight teams were selected loosely corresponding to the top 6 conferences over the past four decades - the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, regardless of their actual conference when they played. If the team featured a player in one of the top 50 all-time lists, that player is listed and his highest all-time ranking is listed in the final column (e.g. NC State is listed first, and David Thompson is noted as the 4th greatest player ever which is his Grantland rating, while Michael Jordan's top rating came from the Bleacher Report.

 Going through the ACC as an example: The teams are listed in my perception of who will have the strongest player cards in the game to the weakest. While many are close, I perceive NC State's 30-1 national champion as the strongest ACC team of all time, though Duke's 34-2 champion and Jordan's 32-2 champs are very close. For that matter, even though Ralph Sampson's 1981 team was eliminated in the Final Four the Sampson vs. Jordan match-ups could go either way, and the 1980 Louisville national champions could certainly defeat any of those on a given day.

Rony Seikaly is the only ACC team with no all-time Top 50 great, so in his case "NBA9" means he as the 9th pick in the NBA draft. While I've pulled stats for players from all these teams, they are from before the tempo free stats of the 21st Century, so it will take some work to produce the cards. We can assume that LSU, who averaged winning 93-89 with Pistol Pete, played at a much higher tempo then DePaul used when working the ball into George Mikan and having him reject shots at the other end of the court.