Saturday, February 8, 2025

14 NBA Players in KS 2008 vs KY 2012; Seattle's Elgin Baylor 32.5 ppt vs. Walkup's SFA

After Michael Jordan's UNC shocked repeat champs from 1962, Cincinnati, our All-Time NCAA Elite 8 and All-Time non-power conference NIT Elite 8 will both be half full after our next NIT-NCAA Value Add Basketball Game double header. 

The Kansas 2008 vs. Kentucky 2012 NCAA All-Time Sweet 16 game will feature seven future NBA players on each team. The NIT games normally do not feature any all-time great players, but the next NIT game features one of the greatest 75 players of all time in Elgin Baylor, who averaged 32.5 points per game for Seattle 1958. Their opponent Stephen F. Austin features the star more typical of non-power conferences, the great Thomas Walkup, who talked about choosing to be a star in Europe in this story that includes video of just how close they came in 2016 to pulling off a second straight upset to go Sweet 16.

NIT update: Elgin Baylor scored 29 points, but our top ranked Value Add player of 2016 - Thomas Walkup, matched the 29 and got 23 from 3-point specialist Demetrious Floyd to let Stephen F. Austin stun Seattle 88-73. They are the 4th Elite 8 team in our small conference NIT tournament.

NCAA update: Anthony Davis and Kentucky 2012 destroyed Kansas 2008, as covered in this blog.

Here are the players for each of the four teams in this match-up with their actual season stats and the two brackets to show the three teams that have already made the two Elite 8s.

Pos      Stephen F. Austin 2016            Ht,NBA      Actual Season Stats
1-PGTrey Pinkney5'92.7 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 3.7 Ast
2-SGDemetrious Floyd5'1113.8 Pts, 1.5 Reb, 1.5 Ast
3-SFThomas Walkup6'418.1 Pts, 6.9 Reb, 4.5 Ast
4-PFTy Charles6'59.4 Pts, 4.8 Reb, 2.3 Ast
5-CT.J. Holyfield6'87.5 Pts, 4.2 Reb, 1.1 Ast
1-PGJared Johnson6'06.0 Pts, 0.9 Reb, 1.1 Ast
2-SGDallas Cameron6'33.5 Pts, 1.0 Reb, 1.6 Ast
3-SFNathan Bain6'62.5 Pts, 2.0 Reb, 0.5 Ast
4-PFClide Geffrard6'513.3 Pts, 5.9 Reb, 1.4 Ast
5-CC.J. Williams6'22.4 Pts, 2.7 Reb, 1.0 Ast
    
PosSeattle 1958Ht,NBAActual Season Stats
1-PGJim Harney5'106.8 Pts, 1.2 Reb
2-SGJerry Frizzell6'49.3 Pts, 4.4 Reb
3-SFDon Ogorek6'59.3 Pts, 6.3 Reb
4-PFCharlie Brown6'210.8 Pts, 7.3 Reb
5-CElgin BaylorNBA,6'632.5 Pts, 19.3 Reb
1-PGDon Piasecki6'23.6 Pts, 1.8 Reb
2-SGJohn Stepan6'61.4 Pts, 1.8 Reb
3-SFJude Petrie6'61.4 Pts, 2.1 Reb
4-PFFrancis Saunders6'25.7 Pts, 2.9 Reb
5-CThornton Humphries6'72.8 Pts, 3.7 Reb
    
PosKansas 2008Ht,NBAActual Season Stats
1-PGMario ChalmersNBA,6'112.8 Pts, 3.1 Reb, 4.3 Ast
2-SGRussell Robinson6'17.3 Pts, 2.8 Reb, 4.1 Ast
3-SFBrandon RushNBA,6'613.3 Pts, 5.1 Reb, 2.1 Ast
4-PFDarnell JacksonNBA,6'911.2 Pts, 6.7 Reb, 1.1 Ast
5-CDarrell ArthurNBA,6'912.8 Pts, 6.3 Reb, 0.8 Ast
1-PGSherron CollinsNBA,5'119.3 Pts, 2.2 Reb, 3.1 Ast
2-SGSasha KaunNBA,6'117.1 Pts, 3.9 Reb, 0.3 Ast
3-SFCole AldrichNBA,6'112.8 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 0.1 Ast
4-PFConner Teahan6'52.2 Pts, 0.4 Reb, 0.3 Ast
5-CRodrick Stewart6'42.8 Pts, 2.2 Reb, 1.4 Ast
    
PosKentucky 2012Ht,NBAActual Season Stats
1-PGMarquis TeagueNBA,6'210.0 Pts, 2.5 Reb, 4.8 Ast
2-SGDoron LambNBA,6'413.7 Pts, 2.7 Reb, 1.5 Ast
3-SFMichael Kidd-GilchristNBA,6'711.9 Pts, 7.4 Reb, 1.9 Ast
4-PFTerrence JonesNBA,6'912.3 Pts, 7.2 Reb, 1.3 Ast
5-CAnthony DavisNBA,6'1014.2 Pts, 10.4 Reb, 1.3 Ast
1-PGDarius MillerNBA,6'89.9 Pts, 2.8 Reb, 2.1 Ast
2-SGJarrod Polson6'20.1 Pts, 0.4 Reb, 0.1 Ast
3-SFSam Malone (card Jon Hood)5'111.0 Pts, 0.3 Reb, 0.2 Ast
4-PFEloy Vargas6'110.8 Pts, 1.7 Reb, 0.1 Ast
5-CKyle WiltjerNBA,6'105.0 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 0.4 Ast





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