Kareem's Record 20 Rebounds vs. UCLA 6'5 and Under Not Enough

As we watched a strong UCLA team playing a road Big Ten game, we rolled dice with two other UCLA teams facing each other. (UPDATE: the Elite 8 game to determine the next opponent for UCLA 1964 just went final behind Christian Laettner's Duke and the undefeated team that capped the streak in 1975).)

This Elite 8 game would be a rematch of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his UCLA freshman 1964 team (since freshman could not play varsity at the time) against the UCLA varsity, which became the first undefeated UCLA champ of the incredible 10 of 12 run.

With no other starter on the court for either team taller than 6'5, the 7'2 Abdul-Jabbar set a Value Add Basketball Game record with 20 rebounds, slightly above the 15.5 rebounds he actually averaged when he was a senior in 1967. The 1964 UCLA team led the the entire game until there were just 7 possessions left, at which point Kareem drew a fifth foul on opposing center Keith Erickson to take the 68-67 lead.

He did miss the and-one, with his only weakness for the game being only 2 of 6 on free throws, despite normally be a decent 65% free throw shooter (1-13 dice roll good, 14-20 miss). 

However, the 1964 backcourt of future NBA players Gail Goodrich and Walt Hazzard kept up their suffocating defense to combined for 41 points, 5 three-pointers, and 9 steals to keep the ball from getting down to Kareem most of the game and register a 78-72 win to advance to the Elite 8 where they will either face the last of the UCLA undefeated champs UCLA 1975 - Dave Meyers vs  Duke 1992 - Christian Laettner.in a complete tossup game.

The other Elite 8 games feature Cincinnati 1962 - Paul Hogue as a 6-point favorite against UNLV 1991 - Larry Johnson and another intramural blue blood battle of Kentucky 2012 - Anthony Davis as a 6-point favorite over Kentucky 1978 - Jack Givens.

Here is the box score and scoresheet.

Pos	UCLA 1967	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Ht,nba?	Actual Season
1-PG	Mike Warren	8	0	2	4	4	2	2	0	2	5'11	12.7 Pts, 4.5 Reb
2-SG	Lucius Allen	12	0	5	2	4	7	1	0	3	nba,6'2	15.5 Pts, 5.8 Reb
3-SF	Kenny Heitz	9	1	1	4	4	4	0	0	1	6'3	6.1 Pts, 3.2 Reb
4-PF	Lynn Shackelford	4	0	2	0	0	6	0	0	1	nba,6'5	11.4 Pts, 5.9 Reb
5-C	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	18	0	8	2	6	20	0	5	3	nba,7'2	29.0 Pts, 15.5 Reb
1-PG	Don Saffer	9	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	6'1	2.9 Pts, 0.8 Reb
2-SG	Gene Sutherland	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'1	1.9 Pts, 0.8 Reb
3-SF	Bill Sweek	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'3	4.7 Pts, 2.8 Reb
4-PF	Jim Nielsen	4	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	6'7	4.6 Pts, 3.4 Reb
5-C	Neville Saner	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'6	1.4 Pts, 1.9 Reb
	Turnovers 16	72	2	27	12	18	45	5	5	15
Pos	UCLA 1964	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Ht,nba?	Actual Season
1-PG	Gail Goodrich	12	2	2	2	4	3	6	2	3	nba,6'1	21.5 Pts, 5.2 Reb
2-SG	Walt Hazzard	19	3	4	2	4	5	3	1	2	nba,6'2	18.6 Pts, 4.7 Reb
3-SF	Fred Slaughter	8	0	4	0	0	7	1	4	3	6'5	7.9 Pts, 8.1 Reb
4-PF	Jack Hirsch	4	0	2	0	0	6	0	3	1	6'3	14.0 Pts, 7.6 Reb
5-C	Keith Erickson	10	0	5	0	0	6	1	1	5	nba,6'5	10.7 Pts, 9.1 Reb
1-PG	Mike Huggins	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5'11	1.6 Pts, 1.0 Reb
2-SG	Kenny Washington	9	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'3	6.1 Pts, 4.2 Reb
3-SF	Rich Levin	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'4	2.0 Pts, 0.6 Reb
4-PF	Kim Stewart	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'5	2.2 Pts, 2.0 Reb
5-C	Doug McIntosh	7	1	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	6'7	3.6 Pts, 4.4 Reb
	Turnovers 16	78	8	25	4	8	35	11	11	20

Here is the scoresheet.