We flagged the Missouri Valley Conference's five teams in our all-time great conferences - breaking them out of the "Mid-Major" list of teams from conferences with fewer than five all-time great teams in the Value Add Basketball Game. 

We ranked the 11 great conferences based on the overall rating of each conferences top five teams and the total number of great teams from the conference (41 from the ACC,  and 36 from the new Big Ten with key Pac-12 teams added). The following is how we rank the conferences based on their 2024-25 members but their all-time performance. Here is the list of all teams and results in our game.

Rnk	Conference	top 5 Rating	Great Teams
1	B10	10.28	36
2	ACC	9.44	41
3	B12	9.96	29
4	BE	8.62	29
5	SEC	6.42	31
6	A10	-2.46	15
7	P12/MWC	-2.22	12
8	WCC	2.68	7
9	Amer	-0.6	6
10	CUSA	-1.16	6
11	MVC	-8.38	5
	Mid-maj	-2.98	17

The following are the top 5 teams from each conference in our all-time rankings, grouped by the conference in which the team will be for the 2024-25 season. The number to their left is where they rank in our all-time rankings in the Value Add Basketball Game.

 

Rnk	Atlantic 10	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
79	Loyola-Chicago	1963	Jerry Harkness	0	1	62	68.0	-2.0	0.3
96	Massachusetts	1996	Marcus Camby	3	1	78	77.3	-5.3	-1
126	Davidson	2008	Stephen Curry #15	1	4	66	70.2	4.4	-3.8
128	Dayton	2020	Obi Toppin	1	1	82	80.5	-4.0	-3.8
130	St. Bonaventure	1970	Bob Lanier	0	1	64	74	-6.0	-4
Rnk	Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
5	Duke	2001	Shane Battier	3	1	78	72.5	3.5	11.1
8	North Carolina	1982	Michael Jordan #1, James Worthy #59	5	1	69	65.0	6.2	10.8
9	North Carolina	2005	Sean May	3	2	72	64.4	3.8	10.4
17	Virginia	2019	Kyle Guy	4	1	73	65.4	4.0	7.9
21	Louisville	2013	Russ Smith	2	1	74	66.3	1.3	7
Rnk	American Athletic	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
46	Memphis	2008	Derrick Rose	4	2	69	65.8	0.2	3
49	Charlotte	1977	Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell	1	1	85	71.5	-0.5	2.8
76	Tulsa	2000	David Shelton	2	1	75	70.7	-4.3	0.5
115	Temple	1958	Guy Rodgers	1	1	66	68.5	-4.5	-2.8
164	Wichita St.	2013	Fred VanVleet	1	2	64	71.3	1.0	-6.5
Rnk	Big Ten	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
1	UCLA	1972	Bill Walton #64	6	0	72	62.0	2.8	16.2
3	Ohio St.	1960	Jerry Lucas #72, John Havlicek #29	2	1	84	76.3	5.0	11.8
4	Indiana	1976	Scott May	3	1	71	59.8	-0.8	11.3
27	Michigan St.	1979	Magic Johnson #5	2	1	70	62.7	-1.0	6.3
32	Michigan	1965	Cazzie Russell	2	1	86	79	-0.3	5.8
Rnk	Big 12	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
2	Kansas	1997	Paul Pierce #50	5	0	77	62.4	-1.0	12.8
6	Houston	1968	Elvin Hayes #41	3	1	73	63.8	4.3	11.1
10	Kansas	2008	Mario Chalmers	5	1	75	56.0	-0.7	10.3
13	Baylor	2021	Jared Butler	2	2	86	78.5	6.0	8.6
20	Cincinnati	1960	Oscar Robertson #12	1	2	72	78	10.7	7
Rnk	Big East	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
7	Connecticut	2023	Adama Sanogo	2	0	79	58.0	-11.0	11
11	Villanova	2018	Mikal Bridges	7	2	79	70	1	9.4
14	Connecticut	1996	Ray Allen #52	1	0	90	68	-9.0	8.5
16	Connecticut	2004	Ben Gordon	5	2	75	66.0	0.6	7.9
28	DePaul	1980	Mark Aguirre	3	1	76.8	68.8	5.3	6.3
Rnk	Conference USA	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
24	Western Kentucky	1966	Clem Haskins	4	0	80	69.3	-0.3	6.7
41	New Mexico St.	1970	Jimmy Collins	2	1	79	67.7	-3.0	4.2
51	UTEP (Texas Western)	1966	Bobby Joe Hill	2	1	64	66.0	8.7	2.7
199	UTEP	1970	Tiny Archibald #67	1	1	73	70.5	-2.0	-9.6
202	Louisiana Tech	1985	Karl Malone #16	1	1	77	86.0	-2.5	-9.8
Rnk	Mid-Major (Other Conf)	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
62	Jacksonville	1970	Artis Gilmore	1	1	78	75.0	-2.0	1.6
98	Holy Cross	1950	Bob Cousy #39	1	1	88	89.5	-0.5	-1.4
113	Seattle	1958	Elgin Baylor #23	0	1	62	64	0.0	-2.8
147	Buffalo	2019	CJ Massinburg	0	1	82	84	-2.0	-5.5
166	Navy	1986	David Robinson #20	0	1	61	77.0	10.0	-6.8
Rnk	Missouri Valley	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
103	Indiana St.	1979	Larry Bird #7	1	2	80	81	-4.0	-1.7
110	Drake	1969	Willie McCarter	1	1	75	74.5	-3.0	-2.4
200	Bradley	1954	Bob Carney	0	1	60	72.0	0.0	-9.8
216	Murray St.	2019	Ja Morant	0	1	78	85	-3.0	-13
227	Southern Illinois	1967	Walt Frazier #45	0	1	73	75.0	-7.0	-15
Rnk	Pac 12/Mountain West	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
43	UNLV	1991	Larry Johnson	1	2	73	76.3	2.3	3.8
109	Oregon St.	1982	A.C. Green	1	1	72	73.0	-7.0	-2.2
117	San Diego St.	2011	Kawhi Leonard #34	2	2	69	71.8	-0.3	-2.9
127	UNLV	1987	Armen Gilliam	0	1	64	82.0	-3.0	-3.8
155	Oregon St.	1990	Gary Payton #48	0	0				-6
Rnk	Southern Conference (SEC)	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
12	Kentucky	1996	Antoine Walker	2	1	72	69.3	2.7	9.2
18	Kentucky	2012	Anthony Davis #53	4	2	72	65.7	-3.5	7.7
22	Auburn	2019	Chuma Okeke	8	1	71	65	1.9	6.9
26	Arkansas	1994	Corliss Williamson	1	2	75	70.3	4.7	6.3
58	Oklahoma	1985	Wayman Tisdale	3	1	75	73.8	2.0	2
Rnk	West Coast Conference (WCC)	Year	Player(s)	Win	Loss	Score	Allow	SOS	Rating
15	San Francisco	1956	Bill Russell #4	3	1	73	63.5	0.5	8.1
19	Gonzaga	2017	Nigel Williams-Goss	3	3	70	63.0	2.7	7.1
50	Loyola Marymount	1990	Bo Kimble	1	2	112.3	108.3	3.0	2.7
75	Gonzaga	2023	Drew Timme	1	0	86	74	-7.0	0.5
144	St. Mary's	2023	Logan Johnson	1	1	83	84.0	-5.5	-5