Thursday, January 2, 2025

Elite 8 All-Time Match-ups and Updated Ratings

Here are the Elite 8 Match-ups in our 4th Tournament of All-Time Great teams, who is favored in each game and then the teams 8 teams that were eliminated in the Sweet 16. Teams are chosen based on:

1. Any team with one of the greatest 75 teams in history is included.

2. Any team that made at two title games in three years is included.

3. In our initial 96 teams, we limited each school to one team in each century, but as we added teams allowed extra teams from the same school that were truly elite, as long as there were no overlap in personnel (e.g. no members of the UCLA 1964, 1967, 1972 or 1975 teams overlap and they are all included, but none of the other six Bruins champions in the years in between were included.

4. If a team has a solid program, we try to include at least one team from their school that made a run. For example, St. Peter's recently became the only team to finish outside the top 100 of all teams that made the Elite 8 - so we include them as the best St. Peter's team for that run.


Elite 8 - top bracket


1-seed Cincinnati 1962 - Paul Hogue +17 vs. 8-seed UNLV 1991 - Larry Johnson +11- * all-time PG Anthony   —--  Cincinnati favored by 6


4-seed Kentucky 1978 - Jack Givens +10- * all-time PG Macy vs. 5-seed  Kentucky 2012 - Anthony Davis +16 — Kentucky 2012 favored by 6


Bottom bracket

2-seed UCLA 1964 - Walt Hazzard +15- * all-time PG Hazzard vs. 7-seed UCLA 1967 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar +14 — UCLA 1964 favored by 1 


3-seed UCLA 1975 - Dave Meyers +11 vs. 6-seed Duke 1992 - Christian Laettner +11- * all-time PG Hurley — neither team favored, toss-up


Eliminated in Sweet 16


Eliminated 65-79 by Kentucky 1978 - Bowling Green 1963 - Nate Thurmond #49 best player ever -2

Eliminated 88-92 by Duke 1992 - Connecticut 2011 - Kemba Walker +1


Eliminted 60-80 by Kentucky 2012 - Dartmouth 1944 - Dick McGuire -2

Eliminated 70-72 by UCLA 1975 - Detroit Mercy 1960 - Dave DeBusschere #73 best player ever -3

Eliminated 64-79 by UCLA 1967 - Kansas 1952 - Clyde Lovellette +1

Eliminated 84-85 by UNLV - North Carolina 2017 - Justin Jackson +5

Eliminated by Cincy 66-80 - Syracuse 1966 - Dave Bing #74 best player ever & Jim Boeheim -7

Eliminated 65-85 by UCLA 1964 - Villanova 1950 - Paul Arizin #66 best player ever -3


End of 16 teams in 4th all-time great tournament.

Rankings to follow.


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