Duquesne's Grant shuts down Kidd's Cal 1993 team to pull 2024 teams within 1 game

The series between teams that were added from the 2024 tournament and teams added because they had one of the top 75 players of all time continues.

The latest game featured Jason Kidd, who will be coaching the Mavs in Game 3 of the playoffs Friday, and his Cal team - that will be joining the ACC next season of all conferences - against the Duquesne team that stunned Brigham Young in the open round of March Madness for their ninth straight win before falling to Illinois.

The Duquesne 2024 team showed they were for real with a pretty dominant 75-65 win behind 21 points from Dae Dae Grant to give the 2024 teams a 2-3 mark and chance to tie the series if they win the last two matchups.

Duquesne moved up from #225 to #200 in our rankings, while Cal dropped from #153 to #209.

We just took a picture of the simple scoresheet, noting the game took 34 minutes.to play. Lamond Murray (12 points) was the only Cal player in double digits.

 

2024 Win?	2024 Team	Favored?	Player(s)	Opponent	Yr	Top 75 All-time player
Win 74-53	Purdue	24	Zach Edey	NYU	1948	Dolph Schayes #61
TBD	NC State	11	D.J. Burns	Weber St.	2010	Damian Lillard #68
Loss 67-73	Utah St.	8	Great Osobor	Massachusetts	1971	Julius Erving #19
TBD	Grand Canyon	4	Tyon Grant-Foster	Gonzaga	1981	John Stockton #25
Lost 81-82	Colorado St.	1	Isaiah Stevens	Arizona St.	2009	James Harden #33
Win 75-65	Duquesne	-9	Jimmy Clark	California	1993	Jason Kidd #36
TBD	Yale	-9	Danny Wolf	Oregon St.	1990	Gary Payton #48
Lost 72-75	Oakland	-14	Jack Gohlke	Louisville	1968	Wes Unseld #60
1 win 3 lost	2024 total

If NC State, Grand Canyon and Yale can win the final three games, then the 2024 teams would win the series against the great players 5 games to 3, or if 2 of the three win the series would be split. Yale is a 9-point underdog against Oregon State and Gary Payton, which so far in the history of the game has only meant a 19% chance of winning - but Duquesne was also a 9-point underdog against Cal.

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Here are the two teams in our current rankings, with notes for any team with one of the greatest players ever - such as Louisiana Tech's Karl Malone as the #16 greatest player of all time. In their 2024 conference ratings on that link Duquesne improved from 14th to 11th among A10 schools and Cal dropped from 28th to 40th among schools in their new ACC conference.

Rnk	Pre	Team	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating	Conf
200	225	Duquesne	2024	Jimmy Clark	1	0	75.0	65.0	-6.0	-10.2	A10
201	204	Louisiana Tech	1985	Karl Malone #16	1	1	76.5	86.0	-2.5	-9.8	CUSA
202	180	Princeton	1965	Bill Bradley	0	1	62.0	79.0	-1.0	-9.8	Mid-maj
203	83	Wake Forest	2005	Chris Paul #30	0	3	64.3	85.3	4.0	-10	ACC
204	181	Northwestern	2017	Vic Law	0	1	70.0	85.0	-5.0	-10.3	B10
205	215	Stephen f austin	2016	Thomas Walkup	0	1	94.0	95.0	3	-10.3	Mid-maj
206	142	New Mexico	1974	Bernard Hardin	0	1	68.0	95.0	-3	-10.5	P12/MWC
207	216	VCU	2011	Bradford Burgess	0	3	60.3	71.3	3.3	-11.3	A10
208	165	Creighton	2020	Ty-Shon Alexander	0	1	72.0	106.0	5.0	-11.8	BE
209	168	California	1993	Jason Kidd #36	0	1	65.0	75.0	-15	-11.5	ACC
210	222	LSU	1970	Pete Maravich #73	0	1	66.0	67.0	2.0	-11.8	SEC
211	217	Grand Canyon	2024	Tyon Grant-Foster	0	0				-12	Mid-maj