Caitlin Clark Highlight of New 20 All-Time Great Women's Teams Coming this Weekend

 We finalized the 20 women's team we will add to the existing 20 all-time great teams we played in our initial free Value Add Basketball Game tournament. We have pulled the stats together for all players that will be in the new game (each team gets 10 players). We did calculate the card everyone most wants to see of course - which is college basketball's all-time leading scorer Caitlin Clark.

Our most popular post involving women's basketball so far featured Debra Rodman ( Dennis Rodman said his sister used to be much better than him when they were kids) leading Louisiana Tech to an 84-62 win over Texas. They eventually lost to Pat Summit's Tennessee in our all-time great team tournament.

We measure level of competition for each team and do weight tournament games a little more than regular season games, so a team that goes to the Championship even the Final Four may calculate a bit higher than a team with a slightly higher SRS calculation who was knocked out the first weekend in the tournament.

To give the reader and game player and idea of how strong a team is when playing match-ups, we provide the following figures. The first "Off" and "Def" numbers provided are the estimated score the team would have in a game against the other 39 great teams in the game. The "Act Off" and "Act Def" is the average score in the games they actually played that season. The final "yes" or "no" just tells you if their cards are already on the link for 20 all-time great teams  or if they will be in the batch we are creating.

For example, in 2009 Auburn had its greatest team led by DeWanna Bonner and won their average game 77-61, and most importantly finally defeated Pat Summit and Tennessee in a game I attended that was standing room only in Auburn. DeWanna Bonner was the super star that year though I also listed the up-and-coming Keke Carrier who would be the star the next year just because we knew her. as my wife was a professor and had her in class. Overall the level of competition was not as tough that year however, so if this Auburn team had to spend a whole season playing against the all-time great teams in this game we would actually expect them to average losing about 62-76. Auburn the next year took on a much tougher schedule, and didn't have the same results, but Carrier and point guard Alli Smalley had one of the best inside-outside combos in the SEC despite the team rebuilding at other positions.

In some cases we list the player who would be a star even if they weren't yet on the team we used. For Example, Chloe Marotta was just a freshman so not let starting on Marquette's best team in 2019, but she became a multi-year star and led the only Marquette team to ever beat a UConn team so we list her name below. Her father was also one of Marquette's best men's players - Marc Marotta. But when you pull up the actual cards this weekend, you will see that future WNBA player Natisha Hiedeman will have the best card in the game for that season. Hiedeman came in 4th in the 6th woman of the Year Award in 2021 in the WNBA.

In the case of Clark and Iowa this year, they have averaged winning 92-72, but against much tougher competition as they head into the Final Four, so we would expect them to have a winning mark even against the all-time great teams - but likely with a much closer average score of 84-80 using the cards in this game. We hope to have these cards calculated by this weekend.

 

Team - Player	Off	Def	Act Off	Act Def	Exist
Auburn 2009 - Keke Carrier and DeWanna Bonner	62	76	77	61	no
Baylor 2012 - Kalani Brown	70	60	78	51	yes
Baylor 2019 - Brittney Griner	73	65	82	56	yes
Connecticut 2010 - Breanna Stewart	70	57	81	46	yes
Connecticut 2016 - Maya Moore	75	61	88	48	yes
Duke 2006 - Alison Bales	60	66	68	58	yes
Georgia - 2013 - Jasmine James	52	66	66	52	no
Indiana 2024 - MacKenzie Holmes	70	74	80	64	no
Iowa 2024- Caitlin Clark	84	80	92	72	no
Kentucky 2013 - DeNesha Stallworth	64	69	75	58	no
Long Beach State 1987 - Cindy Brown	66	65	75	56	yes
Louisiana Tech 1982 - Pam Kelly	74	63	82	55	yes
Louisville 2014 - Shoni Schimmel	67	71	79	59	yes
LSU - 2023 - Angel Reese	67	65	80	52	no
Marquette 2019 - Chloe Marotta, Natisha Hiedeman	70	74	82	62	no
Maryland 2006 - Crystal Langhorne	74	74	83	65	no
Mississippi State 2018 - Victoria Vivans	71	66	81	56	yes
NC State 2024 - Aziaha James	67	67	74	60	no
North Carolina 2007 - Ivory Latta	69	69	84	54	no
Notre Dame 2018 - Arike Ogunbowales	79	74	85	68	yes
Ohio State 2016 - Kelsey Mitchell	77	84	86	75	yes
Oklahoma 2010 - Abi Olajuwon	67	71	72	66	no
Old Dominion 1980- Nancy Lieberman	69	64	75	58	yes
Oregon 2019 - Sabrina Ionescu	76	71	85	62	yes
Penn State 2012 - Maggie Lucas	66	74	76	63	no
Purdue 2003- Shereka Wright	60	73	73	60	no
Rutgers 2007 - Kia Vaughn	59	59	64	54	no
South Carolina 2017 - A'ja Wilson	69	63	76	56	yes
South Carolina 2024 - Kamilla Cardoso	76	66	86	56	no
Stanford 2021- Kiana Williams	70	62	78	54	yes
Tennessee 1998 - Chamique Holdsclaw	79	66	89	56	yes
Texas 2018 - Ariel Atkins	70	74	81	63	yes
Texas A&M 2011 - Danielle Adams	71	64	78	56	yes
Texas Tech 1993 - Sheryl Swoopes	62	72	74	60	no
UCLA 2018 - Monique Billings	68	73	76	64	no
USC 1983 - Cheryl Miller	78	71	86	63	yes
Vanderbilt 2002 - Chantelle Anderson	60	65	72	53	no
Virginia 2018 - Dominique Toussaint	55	68	62	61	no
Virginia Tech 2024 - Elizabeth Kitley	65	72	75	62	no
Washington 2017 - Kelsey Plum	73	75	85	63	yes