Top 25 Coaching Performances; Updated Top All-time Teams and Players

Now that we are adding all of the Athletic's Top 75 players of all time and their teams to the Value Add Basketball Game, we also added the names on this tracker of all games we've played. The best team of the new 26 great players we added is Chris Webber's Fab 5 at Michigan - which we rank as the 19th greatest teams in the game.

However, before we get to that list, I wanted to recognize the 25 coaches who pulled off what I consider the 25 most shocking March Madness runs. I compared where each team was ranked for the season (using www.kenpom.com since it was invented in 2022, SRS from 1950 to 2001, then the Coaches Poll in the 1940s).

For me Villanova's 1985 title over Georgetown despite being ranked 23rd even after winning the tournament gives Rollie Massimino the biggest stunner even ahead of the most lovable win by the same school by Jimmy Valvano. Second for me is Brad Stevens because he took Butler to the edge of the title two years in a row in which they should have had no chance. Then I go with the lowest ranked Elite 8 team ever with Ryan Odom's UMBC run.

However, I partly wanted to do this before updating the all-time great team and player rankings on the second table because I keep feeling bad about ranking Saint Peter's 2022 as last or next to last of my all-time great teams and wanted to turn it into a positive. 

What his means is the same coach who has put Seton Hall near the top of the Big East in only his second year could be the best coach because he took that Saint Peter's team two years ago all the way to the Elite 8. So here is one putting Shaheen Holloway near the top of a list even if Saint Peter's is near the bottom of the list below. Don't get me wrong, the coach of my alma mater had the incredible VCU Final 4 run, but I give a non-top 100 Saint Peter's going almost as far a little edge as more shocking.

Stunner	Team	Year	Coach	Result	Season Rnk
1	Villanova	1985	Rollie Massimino	Champ	23
2	Butler	2011	Brad Stevens	Runner-up	36
3	UMBC	2018	Ryan Odom	Elite 8	166
4	Kansas	1988	Larry Brown	Champ	19
5	Oral Roberts	2021	Paul Mills	Elite 8	125
6	UTEP (Texas Western)	1966	Don Haskins	Champ	10
7	Florida Gulf Coast	2013	Andy Enfield	Elite 8	105
8	Wisconsin	1941	Bud Foster	Champ	Unranked
9	Saint Peters	2022	Shaheen Holloway	Elite 8	102
10	Connecticut	2014	Kevin Ollie	Champ	15
11	North Carolina	2022	Hubert Davis	Runner-up	16
12	Connecticut	2011	Jim Calhoun	Champ	10
13	Penn	1979	Bob Weinhauer	Final 4	57
14	NYU	1945	Howard Cann	Runner-up	14
15	VCU	2011	Shaka Smart	Final 4	53
16	Kentucky	2014	John Calipari	Runner-up	13
17	Charlotte	1977	Lee Rose	Final 4	21
18	Louisville	1986	Denny Crum	Champ	8
19	Auburn	2019	Bruce Pearl	Final 4	11
20	Loyola-Chicago	2018	Porter Moser	Final 4	31
21	Syracuse	2003	Jim Boeheim	Champ	8
22	George Mason	2006	Jim Larranaga	Final 4	22
23	LSU	1986	Dale Brown	Final 4	21
24	South Carolina	2017	Frank Martin	Final 4	24
25	Louisville	1959	Peck Hickman	Final 4	22

Back to the players and teams, when looking at the list below you know which are new teams being created because their record is 0-0.

We have added the Athletic's rankings on the team rankings below. Three teams have two of the top 75 players of all time. Ohio State's 1960 team is ranked No. 4 all-time in our game and featured Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek. UNC's 1982 team ranks #7 all-time in our game and featured Michael Jordan and James Worthy. Houston's 1983 team ranked 27th in our game and featured Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler.

Rnk	Prev	Team	Year	Top Player (top 75 all-time?)	W	L
1	1	UCLA	1972	Bill Walton #64 all-time greatest (includes NBA)	6	0
2	19	Kansas	1997	Paul Pierce #50	5	0
3	5	Duke	2001	Shane Battier	3	1
4	6	Ohio St.	1960	Jerry Lucas #72, John Havlicek #29	2	1
5	8	Indiana	1976	Scott May	3	1
6	14	Houston	1968	Elvin Hayes #41	3	1
7	12	North Carolina	1982	Michael Jordan #1, James Worthy #59	5	1
8	59	Kansas	2008	Mario Chalmers	5	1
9	4	Kentucky	1996	Antoine Walker	2	1
10	22	San Francisco	1956	Bill Russell #4	3	1
11	16	North Carolina	2005	Sean May	3	2
12	26	Arkansas	1994	Corliss Williamson	1	2
13	28	Villanova	2018	Mikal Bridges	7	2
14	11	Connecticut	2023	Adama Sanogo	2	0
15	58	Connecticut	2004	Ben Gordon	5	2
16	61	Baylor	2021	Jared Butler	2	2
17	40	Virginia	2019	Kyle Guy	4	1
18	39	Louisville	2013	Russ Smith	2	1
19	18	Michigan	1993	Chris Webber #65	0	0
20	27	Gonzaga	2017	Nigel Williams-Goss	3	3
21	2	Kentucky	2012	Anthony Davis #53	4	2
22	10	Duke	1992	Christian Laettner	1	2
23	128	DePaul	1980	Mark Aguirre	3	1
24	38	Duke	2010	Jon Scheyer	5	2
25	21	Connecticut	1996	Ray Allen #52	0	0
26	24	Michigan St.	1979	Magic Johnson #5	2	1
27	25	Houston	1983	Hakeem Olajuwon #11, Clyde Drexler #43	2	1
28	7	Cincinnati	1960	Oscar Robertson #12	1	2
29	41	Michigan	1965	Cazzie Russell	2	1
30	85	New Mexico St.	1970	Jimmy Collins	2	1
31	68	Purdue	2018	Carsen Edwards	4	1
32	3	UCLA	1967	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar #3	2	1
33	119	Auburn	2019	Chuma Okeke	8	1
34	31	North Carolina	1972	Bob McAdoo #54	0	0
35	37	Illinois	2005	Deron Williams	3	2
36	32	Georgetown	1984	Patrick Ewing #37	2	1
37	102	Rutgers	1976	Phil Sellers	2	0
38	125	Charlotte	1977	Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell	2	1
39	35	Michigan St.	2000	Mateen Cleaves	4	1
40	111	Wake Forest	1996	Tim Duncan #9	2	1
41	179	Western Kentucky	1966	Clem Haskins	4	0
42	46	UCLA	2008	Russell Westbrook #46	0	0
43	77	Oregon	2017	Dillon Brooks	4	3
44	48	Wisconsin	2015	Frank Kaminsky	2	2
45	99	UTEP (Texas Western)	1966	Bobby Joe Hill	2	1
46	9	UNLV	1991	Larry Johnson	1	2
47	92	Syracuse	2003	Carmelo Anthony #63	2	1
48	15	North Carolina St.	1974	David Thompson	2	1
49	47	Memphis	2008	Derrick Rose	4	2
50	106	Oklahoma	1985	Wayman Tisdale	3	1
51	54	Georgetown	1989	Alonzo Mourning #69	0	0
52	55	Georgetown	1995	Allen Iverson #40	0	0
53	79	Houston	2021	Quentin Grimes	1	0
54	82	Tennessee	2023	Santiago Vescovi	1	0
55	108	Loyola Marymount	1990	Bo Kimble	1	2
56	187	Colorado	2021	McKinley Wright	3	0
57	43	Indiana	1981	Isiah Thomas #26	2	1
58	50	Jacksonville	1970	Artis Gilmore	1	1
59	49	Duke	2015	Justise Winslow	2	0
60	36	Cincinnati	2002	Jason Maxiell	2	2
61	13	Florida	2006	Joakim Noah	5	3
62	80	USC	2021	Evan Mobley	2	1
63	114	Michigan St.	2009	Draymond Green	6	3
64	60	Arizona	2015	Stanley Johnson	3	1
65	87	Syracuse	1987	Rony Seikaly	2	1
66	118	SMU	2017	Semi Ojeleye	1	0
67	33	Illinois	1989	Nick Anderson	2	1
68	188	North Carolina	2022	Armando Bacot	2	0
69	120	Gonzaga	2023	Drew Timme	1	0
70	20	North Carolina	1998	Vince Carter	2	1
71	88	Providence	1987	Billy Donovan	1	1
72	17	Michigan	1989	Glen Rice	0	2
73	71	Seton Hall	1989	John Morton	1	1
74	138	Marquette	2023	Tyler Kolek	2	1
75	81	Kansas	2022	Ochai Agbaji	1	0
76	137	Duke	2022	Wendell Moore	2	1
77	67	Michigan	2013	Trey Burke	1	2
78	30	Loyola-Chicago	1963	Jerry Harkness	0	1
79	57	Arizona	1997	Mike Bibby	2	1
80	78	Texas Tech	2019	Jarrett Culver	3	2
81	158	Iowa	2021	Luka Garza	1	1
82	96	Texas	2023	Marcus Carr	2	0
83	160	Xavier	2023	Jack Nunge	1	0
84	23	Kansas	1957	Wilt Chamberlain #6	3	2
85	65	Ohio St.	2007	Greg Oden	2	3
86	29	Kentucky	1948	Alex Groza	1	1
87	90	Vanderbilt	1993	Bill McCaffrey	1	1
88	72	Tulsa	2000	David Shelton	2	1
89	56	Massachusetts	1996	Marcus Camby	3	1
90	66	Pittsburgh	2009	DeJuan Blair	1	3
91	86	Marquette	1977	Butch Lee	1	1
92	93	Marquette	2003	Dwyane Wade #28	2	2
93	69	Temple	1958	Guy Rodgers	1	1
94	73	Georgia Tech	2004	Jarrett Jack	2	3
95	51	Minnesota	1977	Kevin McHale #49	1	1
96	94	Georgetown	2007	Roy Hibbert	1	2
97	148	Maryland	1984	Len Bias	1	1
98	53	Duke	1986	Johnny Dawkins	0	1
99	134	San Diego St.	2011	Kawhi Leonard #34	2	2
100	139	Creighton	2023	Ryan Kalkbrenner	1	1
101	105	Missouri	1982	Steve Stipanovich	2	1
102	42	Indiana St.	1979	Larry Bird #7	1	2
103	135	South Carolina	2017	Sindarius Thornwell	1	2
104	83	Holy Cross	1950	Bob Cousy #39	1	1
105	70	California	1959	Jack Grout	0	1
106	89	LSU	1992	Shaquille O'Neal #8	1	1
107	52	Oregon St.	1982	A.C. Green	1	1
108	34	Connecticut	1999	Richard Hamilton	0	2
109	100	Drake	1969	Willie McCarter	1	1
110	107	St. John's	1985	Chris Mullin	0	1
111	201	San Diego St.	2023	Jaedon LeDee	0	1
112	161	Kansas St.	2023	Markquis Nowell	1	1
113	97	Seattle	1958	Elgin Baylor #23	0	1
114	149	Marquette	1971	Jim Chones	1	2
115	154	Kansas St.	2008	Michael Beasley	1	1
116	62	Alabama	2023	Brandon Miller	0	1
117	101	Purdue	1969	Rick Mount	0	1
118	74	Oklahoma St.	2004	John Lucas	1	3
119	155	Stanford	2008	Brook Lopez	2	1
120	64	Virginia	1981	Ralph Sampson	0	1
121	136	Dayton	2020	Obi Toppin	1	1
122	189	Miami	2023	Norchad Omier	2	0
123	142	South Carolina	1973	Alex English #71	0	1
124	91	Indiana	2002	Jared Jeffries	1	3
125	126	Tennessee	1977	Bernard King	1	1
126	116	Iowa St.	2014	DeAndre Kane	1	1
127	63	St. Bonaventure	1970	Bob Lanier	0	1
128	127	Alabama	1977	Reggie King	0	1
129	84	North Carolina	1957	Lennie Rosenbluth	0	1
130	45	Maryland	2002	Juan Dixon	1	3
131	163	DePaul	1945	George Mikan #35	0	1
132	121	La Salle	1954	Tom Gola	0	1
133	98	West Virginia	1959	Jerry West #14	0	1
134	44	UNLV	1987	Armen Gilliam	0	1
135	110	Florida St.	1993	Charlie Ward	0	1
136	95	Oklahoma	2016	Buddy Hield	1	3
137	147	St. Mary's	2023	Logan Johnson	1	1
138	75	St. Joe's	2004	Jameer Nelson	1	2
139	151	Notre Dame	1981	Orlando Woolridge	0	1
140	131	Washington	2006	Brandon Roy	0	1
141	115	West Virginia	2010	Kevin Jones	1	3
142	132	UCLA	2006	Jordan Farmar	2	3
143	166	Louisville	1968	Wes Unseld #60	0	0
144	168	Oregon St.	1990	Gary Payton #48	0	0
145	169	California	1993	Jason Kidd #36	0	0
146	195	Iowa	2001	Reggie Evans	1	2
147	112	Texas	2003	T.J. Ford	1	2
148	171	Arizona St.	2009	James Harden #33	0	0
149	174	Wichita St.	2013	Fred VanVleet	1	2
150	186	Davidson	2008	Stephen Curry #15	1	5
151	143	Brigham Young	1981	Danny Ainge	0	1
152	170	Nevada	2004	Nick Fazekas	0	1
153	194	Virginia Tech	1986	Dell Curry	0	1
154	145	Miami	2013	Shane Larkin	0	1
155	109	Georgia Tech	1990	Dennis Scott	0	1
156	133	LSU	2006	Glen Davis	1	2
157	177	Seton Hall	2020	Myles Powell	0	1
158	180	LSU	1953	Bob Pettit #31	0	0
159	183	UCLA	1987	Reggie Miller #47	0	0
160	144	Mississippi	2001	Justin Reed	0	1
161	185	Texas	2007	Kevin Durant #13	0	0
162	113	Texas A&M	2007	Acie Law	0	1
163	173	Marquette	2011	Jimmy Butler	0	1
164	152	VCU	1985	Calvin Duncan	0	1
165	178	TCU	2023	JaKobe Coles	0	1
166	140	Utah	1998	Andre Miller	0	1
167	130	Marquette	1994	Jim McIlvaine	1	1
168	122	Dayton	1967	Don May	0	1
169	203	Mississippi St.	1996	Lawrence Roberts	0	1
170	184	Boston College	2006	Jared Dudley	0	1
171	150	Arizona St.	1980	Byron Scott	0	1
172	153	Kansas	1988	Danny Manning	0	1
173	200	Washington St.	2008	Kyle Weaver	0	1
174	159	UCLA	2021	Jaime Jaquez	0	1
175	156	Buffalo	2019	CJ Massinburg	0	1
176	103	Arkansas	1978	Sidney Moncrief	0	1
177	192	Auburn	1984	Charles Barkley #22	1	1
178	162	Wyoming	1943	Ken Sailors	0	1
179	164	Oklahoma St.	1946	Bob Kurland	0	1
180	167	Navy	1986	David Robinson #20	0	1
181	129	Clemson	1987	Horace Grant	0	1
182	176	Penn St.	2018	Tony Carr	0	1
183	197	Central Florida	2019	Joey Graham	0	1
184	198	Providence	1960	Lenny Wilkens #75	0	0
185	141	Notre Dame	1970	Austin Carr	1	2
186	199	Louisiana Tech	1985	Karl Malone #16	0	0
187	204	Loyola-Chicago	2018	Cameron Krutwig	0	3
188	146	Arkansas	2021	JD Notae	0	1
189	104	Louisville	1980	Darrell Griffith	0	1
190	193	Villanova	1985	Ed Pinckney	0	1
191	209	Nebraska	2014	Terran Petteway	0	1
192	202	Georgia	1982	Dominique Wilkins #51	1	1
193	196	George Mason	2006	Jai Lewis	0	3
194	181	Marquette	1955	Terry Rand	0	1
195	123	Kentucky	1970	Dan Issel	0	1
196	191	Bradley	1954	Bob Carney	0	1
197	190	Florida Atlantic	2023	Johnell Davis	0	1
198	76	Wake Forest	2005	Chris Paul #30	0	3
199	165	Princeton	1965	Bill Bradley	0	1
200	117	Creighton	2014	Doug McDermott	0	3
201	175	Northwestern	2017	Vic Law	0	1
202	205	Florida St.	1968	Dave Cowens #57	0	0
203	206	Centenary (LA)	1976	Robert Parish #74	0	0
204	207	Santa Clara	1996	Steve Nash #38	0	0
205	182	Miami	1965	Rick Barry #27	0	1
206	157	Creighton	2020	Ty-Shon Alexander	0	1
207	212	Stephen f austin	2016	Thomas Walkup	0	1
208	210	Marshall	1956	Hal Greer #70	0	0
209	217	LSU	1970	Pete Maravich #73	0	1
210	219	Liberty	2023	Darius McGhee	0	1
211	213	James Madison	2024	Terrence Edwards	0	1
212	214	UTEP	1970	Tiny Archibald #67	0	0
213	211	VCU	2011	Bradford Burgess	0	3
214	215	Murray St.	2019	Ja Morant	0	1
215	172	Butler	2010	Gordon Hayward	0	3
216	218	Niagara	1970	Calvin Murphy	0	1
217	216	North Carolina	1965	Billy Cunningham #66	0	0
218	208	Richmond	2011	Justin Harper	0	1
219	220	Southern Illinois	1967	Walt Frazier #45	0	0
220	221	Gonzaga	1981	John Stockton #25	0	0
221	223	Massachusetts	1971	Julius Erving #19	0	0
222	224	Weber St.	2010	Damian Lillard #68	0	0
223	225	NYU	1948	Dolph Schayes #61	0	0
224	124	New Mexico	1974	Bernard Hardin	0	1
225	226	St. Peter's	2022	Doug Edert	0	1
226	222	Princeton	2023	Tosan Evbuomwan	0	1