College Hoops Best Conference History - ACC (By Far)

 When we played our initial All-Time Great tournament using the first 96 Value Add Basketball Game teams, Michael Jordan led the 1982 UNC Tar Heels all the way to the title game before falling short against Bill Walton's 1972 UCLA Team.

Perhaps nothing indicates the ACC is clearly the top conference historically then the fact that Jordan's team in our game ranks as the 7th best team in the conference so far.

We rank conferences based on the top six teams, and those six in front of Jordan's UNC team have gone 17-7 with an average win margin of 8 points (75-67) against some of the greatest teams of all time. A couple of the Duke teams (2001 and 1992) have only paid two games a piece, so still need to prove themselves in more games. However, the new teams the ACC added included the great 2013 Louisville team and the great Syracuse and Pittsburgh - all from the great Big East years. Add them to the great UVa champs from 2019, the Tim Duncan's 1996 team that already stunned Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's team in our game, David Thompson's NC State team that ended UCLA's dynasty.

Despite growing up in Virginia, I adopted the Big East and rooted for them against the ACC from that point forward, but there is no way to argue this is not the top conference in history based on their current roster of teams.

Rnk	Great Team	Year	Key Player	W	L	Pts	Allow	Rate
	Top 6 Other Conf			17	7	74.8	66.9	9.1
1	Duke	2001	Shane Battier	2	0	84.5	74.0	12.8
2	North Carolina	2005	Sean May	3	2	72.2	64.4	9.6
3	Duke	1992	Christian Laettner	1	1	71.5	64.5	9.2
4	Virginia	2019	Kyle Guy	4	1	72.6	65.4	8.3
5	Duke	2010	Jon Scheyer	5	2	74.0	66.7	7.9
6	Louisville	2013	Russ Smith	2	1	74.0	66.3	7.0
7	North Carolina	1982	Michael Jordan	5	1	68.8	65.0	6.7
8	North Carolina St.	1974	David Thompson	2	1	72.0	72.7	5.1
9	Wake Forest	1996	Tim Duncan	2	1	66.0	64.7	3.9
10	North Carolina	1998	Vince Carter	2	1	80.7	83.7	2.7
11	Syracuse	2003	Carmelo Anthony	2	1	76.0	74.0	2.3
12	Syracuse	1987	Rony Seikaly	2	1	72.3	68.7	-0.3
13	Pittsburgh	2009	DeJuan Blair	1	3	60.0	62.3	-0.8
14	Duke	1986	Johnny Dawkins	0	1	106.0	108.0	-1.0
15	Georgia Tech	2004	Jarrett Jack	2	3	62.6	67.4	-1.1
16	Georgia Tech	1990	Dennis Scott	0	1	64.0	82.0	-5.2
17	Virginia	1981	Ralph Sampson	0	1	61.0	72.0	-5.4
18	Notre Dame	1981	Orlando Woolridge	0	1	68.0	74.0	-7.0
19	Notre Dame	1970	Austin Carr	1	1	67.0	76.5	-8.2
20	Wake Forest	2005	Chris Paul	0	3	64.3	85.3	-9.3
21	Louisville	1980	Darrell Griffith	0	1	52.0	82.0	-10.4
22	Miami FL	1965	Rick Berry	0	1	104.0	108.0	-14.6

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.

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