South Bracket - Kentucky Downs LSU in Tournament of Greatest Women's Teams In History

Our 7-seed Kentucky 2013 won our final "debut" game in an SEC match-up 10-seed LSU 2005. Kentucky improves from 45th to 38th in our all-time rankings, while LSU dropped from 52nd to 58th. We did accidentally list LSU as a +0 in the ratings originally, but it has always been a -6 (6-points worse than "average" great teams in the game.  We plan to shift to baseball after these final debut games in each of the four regions. The results for the rest of the bracket so far are below this box score.

 

Pos	LSU Tigers 2005	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Pts, Reb,Ast,Ht,pro?
1-PG	Temeka Johnson	4	0	1	2	4	2	1	0	3	10.4, 3.3, 7.7, 5'3,wnba
2-SG	Scholanda Dorrell	9	0	4	1	2	2	1	0	2	8.9, 2.5, 2.1, 5'10,wnba
3-SG	Seimone Augustus	22	0	9	4	4	7	0	1	3	20.1, 4.6, 2.1, 6'1,wnba
4-PF	Wendlyn Jones	2	0	1	0	0	4	0	1	1	4.7, 5.1, 0.8, 6'1
5-C	Sylvia Fowles	13	0	6	1	4	4	1	2	1	11.8, 9.0, 0.3, 6'6,wnba
Pos	LSU Bench	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Pts, Reb,Ast,Ht,pro?
1-PG	RaShonta LeBlanc	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1.5, 1.2, 1.0, 5'7
2-SG	Quianna Chaney	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	4.8, 0.9, 0.8, 5'11,wnba
3-SG	Florence Williams	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2.9, 2.4, 0.4, 6'1
4-PF	Tillie Willis	4	0	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	1.8, 2.2, 0.2, 6'5
5-C	Crystal White	3	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	3.1, 3.6, 0.4, 6'3
	11 Turnovers	63	0	27	9	16	27	5	4	15
Pos	Kentucky Wildcats 2013	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Pts, Reb,Ast,Ht,pro?
1-PG	Jennifer O'Neill	15	1	5	2	3	2	1	0	3	10.9, 2.3, 2.8, 5'6,wnba
2-SG	A'dia Mathies	19	2	6	1	1	5	1	0	2	16.1, 4.5, 2.2, 5'9,wnba
3-SG	Bria Goss	14	0	6	2	2	7	2	0	3	8.8, 2.9, 1.2, 5'10
4-PF	Samarie Walker	6	0	3	0	0	9	2	2	3	8.7, 8.1, 1.2, 6'1
5-C	DeNesha Stallworth	4	0	2	0	0	3	0	1	5	12.5, 6.0, 1.9, 6'3
Pos	Kentucky Bench	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Pts, Reb,Ast,Ht,pro?
1-PG	Janee Thompson	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4.0, 1.0, 0.9, 5'7
2-SG	Kastine Evans	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	4.3, 2.0, 1.0, 5'8
3-SG	Bernisha Pinkett	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2.8, 1.6, 0.6, 5'7
4-PF	Samantha Drake	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2.6, 1.4, 0.2, 6'3
5-C	Azia Bishop	4	0	2	0	0	5	0	0	1	3.7, 3.2, 0.4, 6'3
	15 Turnovers	72	3	29	5	6	36	6	3	21

A'dia Mathies, who was initially accidentally left out of the game, had the big game with 19 points including two 3-pointers.  The SEC player of the year in 2013 was slightly outscored by LSU's star Seimone Augustus, but Kentucky outrebounded LSU 36-27. LSU's center Sylvia Fowles drew a 5th foul on DeNesha Stallworth and scored and hit the free throw to pull LSU within 46042 with 2:35 left in the 3rd quarter (21 possessions left in game), but Kentucky's Kastine Evans came off the bench with plenty of stamina left to let the Wildcats play the rest of the game without a tired player.

If you look at the bracket below, you will see that Kentucky will likely get a much tougher next game when we resume basketball later, with our all-time 2-seed and current national champ South Carolina 2024 and Kamilla Cardoso next up unless a 15-seed Virginia team pulls a huge upset.

Note June 18, 2024, favorites are 3-0 so far in bracket below.

Tennessee's 4-0 mark was in our initial all-time great championship of the 1st 20 great teams we created, so they are defending their title in this bigger tournament of 64 teams.

South	Seed	Player(s)
Tennessee 1998, 4-0	1	Tamika Catchings, Chamique Holdsclaw
Auburn 2009, 0-1	16	Keke Carrier, DeWanna Bonner
Oklahoma 2002, 0-0	9	Stacey Dales (cards being made)
Texas Tech 1993, 0-0 Won 85-79 OT	8	Sheryl Swoopes
Louisiana Tech 1988 0-0 W80-64	5	Teresa Weatherspoon (cards being made)
Arizona 2021, 0-0	12	Sylvia Fowles, Seimone Augustus
South Carolina 2017, 1-1	13	A'ja Wilson
LSU 2023, 1-0	4	Angel Reese
South	Seed	Player(s)
Connecticut 2010, 2-1	3	Breanna Stewart
Duke 2006, 0-1	14	Alison Bales
Virginia 1991, 1-0	11	Dawn Staley
Baylor 2019, 1-1	6	Brittney Griner
Kentucky 2013, 0-0 WON 72-63	7	DeNesha Stallworth, A'dia Mathias
LSU 2005, 0-0	10	Sylvia Fowles, Seimone Augustus
Virginia 2018, 0-1	15	Dominique Toussaint
South Carolina 2024, 1-0	2	Kamilla Cardoso

 The outline for how we got here is below: 

We found complete stats for one of the best few women's basketball teams in history, the Texas Longhorns 1985-86 undefeated national champs. This holiday weekend we plan to produce eight new all-time great women's teams which will give us a set of 64 - the perfect number for a new Value Add Basketball Game tournament.

The 64 teams we have selected for the game were chosen on the following basis:

If a team had one of these players we list as the greatest 40 college players of all time, then that team is in the game.

In addition, these 50 teams we rank as the best of all time are in the game EXCEPT when a team has several of the top 50 teams over the course of a few years, we just keep one of the teams so no player is on more than one team.

In addition to those teams, we took the best team from some other very strong programs.

Finally, I took a point of personal preference of two teams I used to watch in person - the first Marquette team to beat UConn and the first Auburn team to beat Tennessee.

I broke down the 64 teams into the four regular March Madness regions - East, South, Midwest and West - and seeded them based basically on these current rankings I keep for my game - but I tweaked a bit to line up seeds so that the teams I have yet to use in the game play each other first - so every 0-0 team is playing another 0-0 team until all teams have played once in order to catch any mistakes on any cards.