Sunday, November 20, 2022

Summary Blog with Links to All 8 Basketball Conference All-Time Rankings

 Breaking down the 135 all-time great college basketball teams in our Value Add Basketball Game by current conference, the following conference standings are based on the current ratings of the top six teams in each conference. For example, we feature 22 ACC teams, but the top six team have gone 17-7, averaged outscoring other great teams in the game 75-67, and have a rating of 9.1 (9 points better than the average great team in the game, which is about 30 points better than the average typical team).

RnkRanked based top 6 teamsWLPtsAllowRatHighest Rated Team
1ACC (22 teams)17774.866.99.1Duke 2001
2Big Ten (20 teams)15673.768.25.8indiana 1976
3Big 12 (15 teams)17774.168.35.5Kansas 2008
4Big East (17 teams)17773.168.24.7Villanova 2018
5Pac-12 (11 teams)18674.671.24.6UCLA 1972
6SEC (18 teams)20872.969.84.1Kentucky 1996
7American Athletic (6)13969.868.53.5Cincinnati 1960
 Other Conferences (18)6878.877.63.1Gonzaga (WCC) 2017
8Atlantic 10 (8 teams)31268.774.3-6.0Dayton 2020

We ran one blog on the teams in each conference, which you can can find by clicking on the conference you want above, or you can click here to see the Top 25 ranked teams of the 135 teams in our games so far.

We invented the Value Add Basketball Game, and since then have grown it to to 135 teams of all-time great teams and players. We have played 188 games to date, and 63,000 unique visitors have clicked on the game. 


Seven current conferences have at least six all-time great teams in the game. We decided to rank those conferences based on the average rating of their top six teams so far in our games against other teams.

Click on the game to play yourself - it contains everything you need to play the Value Add Basketball game, which lets you pit any of 136 great all-time college teams against each other. To pick your two teams it is best to click on this Google doc and print the pages of the teams you want (each team is one page). I track my games on this google sheet, but play your own for free!

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