Scroll to the bottom of this blog for the phenomenal final 6 minutes of this classic match-up between the 2022 national champs from Kansas and the underdogs - but always dangerous with Stephen Curry's Dad on the court, Virginia Tech Hokies of 1986. I started posting this chronologically, but the wrap up of the final 10 possessions was a classic.
A couple of notes as Virginia Tech 1986 and Dell Curry take the court against Kansas 2022 champs.
Note the two dimes on Dell Curry mean he gets the ball on not only a 1, but also a 6 or 7 on the 8-sided die. Those should be the numbers by "Gets Ball On" but sometimes a 6 and 7 combine to a 0 in the cards, so will fix that. At the outset if the game the other cards are all pennies so they cover the 2 (George Caesar), 3 (Tim Anderson), 4 (Bobby Beecher) and 5 (Phil Williams) but there is no extra dime on the court at the outset to get the ball on an "8." Therefore if an 8 appears on the 8-sided die the dice are all rolled again but in the second row only a 1-5 go to that positive while a 6-8 are all shot clock violation turnovers.
On the Kansas side they actually too many dimes at the outset so you must choose two dimes between Christian Braun, Ochai Agbaji and there are two dimes for Remy Martin (6&7). Braun is actually a slightly worse shooter than the other two, so we will start the game with him only getting the ball on a 1, Martin on a 2, 6 or 7, Agbaji on a 3 or 8, Jalen Coleman-Lands on a 4 and Mitch Lightfoot in a 5. However, Martin plays possessions 44-26, so once the top line is in from 25-1 Braun will get the ball on a 6 and center David McCormack will get the ball on an 8.
Keep in mind the 6, 7 and 8 are all interchangeable, so if you had one player who was a 1&6 and another who was a 2&6 then you can just make the second player a 2&7 before starting to roll.
Also note that another reason we want to get a game played for every team is to catch anything missing on the cards. For some reason a few.of the positions did not print so I added them in writing. Also I had not added suggested possessions on the bottom of the Kansas cards so figured them out and wrote them in - and will add all these to the cards.
Game results will be posted below.
1st half. After two possessions for each team
Dell Curry and
Ochai Agbaji both had 1 steal and 1 blocked shot in a 0-0 tie (really 20-20 since we start the game there). With 38 possessions to play in the game Agbaji hit a trey to give Kansas their first lead at 31-29, then Curry hit a trey to give Virginia Tech a 32-31 lead. At the buzzer at the end of the first half Remy Martin his a trey on the way to the locker room for a 38-36 lead.
Kansas the better team but in hoops the underdog wins about one in three games unless.ine if the teams is much lower rated, which none of the teams in our game are.
2nd half.
On the 10th possession (counting down to 1) KUs Dajuan Harris fouled out on a Dell Curry 3-point attempt, joining Jayhawks star
Ochai Agbaji who fouled out earlier.
Curry,
Stephen Curry's dad, sank all three free throws and the upset minded 1986 Virginia Tech team led 71-70 against the suddenly short-handed Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks put capable backups in the game with excellent 6th man Remy Martin and to take advantage of the Hokies weaker rebounding a second big man in 6-foot-8 Mitch Lightfoot on the court the same time as starting center 6-foot-10 David McCormack and moving 6-foot-8
Jalen Wilson to small forward.
The problem is that Marin already used up his stamina (15) as did Lightfoot (9) so both would play the last 10 possessions with reduced effectiveness, meaning every die roll of any type would be adjusted one against them. So Martin's normal potent shooting on the 20-sided dies of 1-3 three-pointer made, 4-8 two-pointer made and 9-11 fouled and two shots would be reduced to 1-2, 3-7 and 8-10. Likewise the team dunk range of 51-65 for Kansas for the game on the two 6-sided dice would be reduced to 51-64 when either he or Lightfoot had the ball. For Lightfoot, he is defensive process of a 21-26, 32 highest blocked shot range possible would be reduced to 21-26 (meaning he could not block other players shots like a 32 can do) and his offensive rebounding would change from 1-6 to 1-5 and defensive from 1-4 to 1-3 etc.
An upset was brewing, and with 7 possessions left Curry hit a 3-pointer to make it 74-72 Hokies.
However, McCormack and Lightfoot, not normally big scorers, both grabbed offensive rebounds on consecutive trips. McCormack scored on his to tie it 76-76, and then Lightfoot was fouled on his and while Kansas fans would have been holding their breath, the 50% free throw shooter (1-10 free throw made, 11-20 missed reduced by 1 since tired to 1-9) hit them both for a 78-76 Kansas lead.
The with 4 possessions left, we had the play of the game. Curry (21 points, 4 steals) had the ball with a chance to tie toe score at 80. The 6 on the 8-sided die goes to Curry, and the 20-sided die was a game-tying basket unless stopped by something on the 11-66 defensive dice. That number was 22. The rules stipulate that if the 8-sided die is a 1-5 then only the player guarding the player with the ball can steal or block a shot but if the player got the ball on a 6, 7 or 8 then team defense comes into play and any player can block the shot but on a 22 only a player with at least a 21-26 block range. Despite Lightfoot's block range being reduce by 1 due to being tired, his 21-26 was enough for a block of Curry on a 22, and on possession 4 the rebound automatically goes to the Power Forward, so he grabbed that as well.
Virginia Tech had to foul to create the extra possessions and Kansas hit their free throws to escape with an 87-81 win to advance.
While the game was closer than expected, that does not necessarily mean Kansas cannot run through this tournament. In our first 96-team tournament,
Michael Jordan needed to score on the final possession in UNC's 1st and 2nd game of the tournament to sneak out wins - but then they won three more games to make the title game before losing to
Bill Walton's UCLA.
Kansas rating drops from 7.4 to 5.3 to drop from 25th to 39th on the all-time list, while the 1997 and 2008 Jayhawks rank 2nd and 3rd all time behind
Bill Walton's 1972 UCLA team in our game. Virginia Tech improves from a -9.8 to -7.9 to improve from 168th to 164th all time. Our system works just like Ken Pomeroy's except that in addition to the point margin and stretch of schedule, the winner gets an extra +5 and the lose loses and extra -5, so an upset even by one point would have shot Virginia Tech up to a -3.9 and 131st place.
Here is the box score, picture of our scoresheet, and the links to play your own games for free.
2022 Kansas 87, 1986 Virginia Tech 81
| Pos | PT | Virginia Tech 1986 | Pts | Reb | Stl | Blk | Fouls |
|---|
| 1-PG | 46 | Dell Curry | 21 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2-SG | 26 | Johnny Fort | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3-SF | 42 | Keith Colbert | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 4-PF | 44 | Bobby Beecher | 18 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5-C | 26 | Dave Burgess | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1-PG | 16 | George Caesar | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2-SG | 7 | Mark Whitaker | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3-SF | 13 | Tim Anderson | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4-PF | 11 | Phil Williams | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5-C | 9 | Roy Brow | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 240 | Hokies Totals | 81 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 19 |
| | | Turnnovers 12 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Pos | PT | Kansas 2022 | Pts | Reb | Stl | Blk | Fouls |
| 1-PG | 29 | Dajuan Harris | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2-SG | 46 | Christian Braun | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3-SF | 22 | Ochai Agbaji | 13 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 4-PF | 35 | Jalen Wilson | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5-C | 27 | David McCormack | 16 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1-PG | 4 | Joseph Yesufu | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2-SG | 41 | Remy Martin | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3-SF | 8 | Jalen Coleman-Lands | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4-PF | 8 | Zach Clemence | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5-C | 20 | Mitch Lightfoot | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| | 240 | Jayhawks Totals | 87 | 36 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| | | Turnovers 13 | | | | | |
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