Resuming All-Time Great Men's and Women's Value Add Basketball Game Tournaments

We play our Statis-Pro baseball game about half the year, and with the LA Dodgers sweeping our annual World Series, we now return to the Value Add Basketball Game of the all-time great men's and women's college teams.

 WOMEN’S ALL-TIME TOURNAMENT – Pat Summit’s 1998 Tennessee team won the first all-time women’s tournament in the Value Add Basketball game with four straight wins. We had a couple of tournaments going of teams created after that, and have now combined the two tournaments we had going up until we broke for baseball, and reseeded the remaining unbeatens from both tournaments into one. Their bracket appears first below. Below that the remaining men’s unbeaten tournament teams outside of the two champs that already won a full-tournament.

Team, all-time game rank	Best Players (rank if top 40 game card of all-time)	Seed	plays
Connecticut 2002, #2	Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, 3, 7 all-time best player	1	bye
Tennessee 2007, #3	Candace Parker, 10 all-time best player	2	15
Texas 1986, #4	Clarissa Davis, 40 all-time best player	3	14
Connecticut 1995, #7	Nykesha Sales, Rebecca Lobo, 31, 37 all-time best	4	13
Old Dominion 1997, #12	Ticha Penicheiro	5	12
LSU 2023, #15	Angel Reese, 23 all-time best player	6	11
Iowa 2024, #18	Caitlin Clark, 8 all-time best player	7	10
Colorado St. 1999, #24	Becky Hammon, 19 all-time best player	8	9
Maryland 2006, #26	Crystal Langhorne	9	8
Notre Dame 2001, #28	Ruth Riley, 32 all-time best player	10	7
Virginia 1991, #30	Dawn Staley, 20 all-time best player	11	6
Marquette 2019, #33	Chloe Marotta and Natisha Hiedeman	12	5
UCLA 2018, #38	Monique Billings	13	4
Kentucky 2013, #39	DeNesha Stallworth	14	3
Texas Tech 1993, #44	Sheryl Swoopes, 18 all-time best player	15	2

 Team not listed - Tennessee 1998 already won previous tournament. We consider the #2 through #5 seeds heavy favorites, by 9 points or double figures - however the other games are very even.

Men's Tournament

Bill Walton’s 1972 UCLA won 6 straight to take the all-time title from our first 96 Value Add Basketball teams, then Paul Pierce’s 1997 Kansas won 5 straight to win our second title. Since then we added many more teams and every team has played at least once. We have reseeded the remaining 26 teams who are still undefeated, most 1-0. The seeds are based on our rankings right now – which started with how good we believe they are based on their cards but is then adjusted for each win and loss.

We would consider the 5 to 9 seeds as well as 13-seed Duke as double digit favorites, the other games as likely competitive. We did fall into one actual rematch from a regular seasons with the 2023 Texas and Gonzaga teams facing in our #16 vs. #17 seed. They did actually play early that season and Texas destroyed the Zags, but it was at Texas and at the end of the season the Zags did go to the Final 4 while Texas was beaten in the Elite 8.

Men's unbeaten	Player(s)	Seed	Plays
Connecticut 2023, #7	Adama Sanogo	1	bye
Connecticut 1996, #14	Ray Allen #52	2	bye
Western Kentucky 1966, #24	Clem Haskins	3	bye
Houston 2021, #26	Quentin Grimes	4	bye
Purdue 2024, #35	Zach Edey	5	28
Michigan 1993, #36	Chris Webber #65	6	27
Rutgers 1976, #39	Phil Sellers	7	26
North Carolina 1972, #40	Bob McAdoo #54	8	25
UCLA 2008, #44	Russell Westbrook #46	9	24
Colorado 2021, #56	McKinley Wright	10	23
Tennessee 2023, #59	Santiago Vescovi	11	22
Georgetown 1989, #63	Alonzo Mourning #69	12	21
Duke 2015, #65	Justise Winslow	13	20
North Carolina 2022, #67	Armando Bacot	14	19
SMU 2017, #70	Semi Ojeleye	15	18
Texas 2023, #71	Marcus Carr	16	17
Gonzaga 2023, #76	Drew Timme	17	16
Kansas 2022, #79	Ochai Agbaji	18	15
Xavier 2023, #86	Jack Nunge	19	14
Miami 2023, #131	Norchad Omier	20	13
Arizona St. 2009, #139	James Harden #33	21	12
Oregon St. 1990, #140	Gary Payton #48	22	11
LSU 1953, #147	Bob Pettit #31	23	10
NC St. 2024, #153	D.J. Burns	24	9
Louisville 1968, #178	Wes Unseld #60	25	8
Duquesne 2024, #203	Jimmy Clark	26	7
Gonzaga 1981, #216	John Stockton #25	27	6
Massachusetts 1971, #219	Julius Erving #19	28	5

For google sheet users, you can click for all our former results in MEN'S and WOMEN'S Games.