Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Seattle Represents All-Time WAC; New Pac-8 Ranks 5th - Ahead of ACC

Seattle 1958 represents the WAC in our next All-Time NIT tournament game, led by Elgin Baylor, as they face the 13-seed Stephen F. Austin 2016 and Thomas Walkup  representing the Southland Conference in our Value Add Basketball Game.

All 31 conference were guaranteed a spot in either out all-time NCAA tournament of the 20 teams vying for greatest ever of our 358 teams in the Value Add Basketball Game, or our NIT of 20 non-power conference champs. The 5 power conferences were the only to have a second team make the all-time tournament, and the Big 10 grabbed 6 of the 20 spots.

The Pac-12 is not in the tournament based in this year's conference spots as their great historic teams are in the Big Ten now, but as the tables below show Gonzaga makes next year's Pac-8 the 5th best current conference.

The following are all conferences with their best current team and their ranking (e.g. the Atlantic 10 is presented by VCU, currently No. 36 at www.kenpom.com).  then we list any all-time teams from that conference, so the 1963 Loyola-Chicago ream is representing the A10 in the NCAA as the 20th (last) seed). 

We place the all-time teams in the conference in which they currently play. However, if we updated for the conferences where they are about to play, Seattle would not be in our tournament because they are moving to the West Coast Conference, which will be represented by Bill Russell and the 1956 San Francisco team, and based on next year's conferences, Gonzaga would be in the tournament as the top Pac-8 team, but the conference is not represented this year as teams move around.

 Below this table is a list of the Pac-8, Mountain West and West Coast if all teams had already moved. If that were the case, then the Pac-8 would move ahead of the ACC as the 5th best conference right now, the Mountain West would drop from 6th to 10th, and the WCC would rank 12th.Below that are links to the star player on all 40 teams in our tournaments plus Gonzaga.
  
ConFull NameBest 2025Rnk 2025All-TimeSeedTeamsYr
AEAmerica East ConfBryant141NIT10Vermont2020
AmerAmerican Athletic ConfMemphis40NCAA12Cincinnati1962
ASunASUN ConfLipscomb94NCAA19Jacksonville1970
A10Atlantic 10 ConfVCU36NCAA20Loyola-Chicago1963
ACCAtlantic Coast ConfDuke3NCAA14Duke2001
ACCAtlantic Coast Conf  NCAA5North Carolina 1982
B10Big 10 ConfPurdue8NCAA1UCLA1972
B10Big 10 Conf  NCAA13Indiana 1976
B10Big 10 Conf  NCAA4Michigan1993
B10Big 10 Conf  NCAA8Michigan St.2000
B10Big 10 Conf  NCAA9UCLA1964
B10Big 10 Conf  NCAA2UCLA1975
B12Big 12 ConfHouston2NCAA10Kansas2008
B12Big 12 Conf  NCAA3Kansas1997
BEBig East ConfSt. John's16NCAA6Connecticut2023
BEBig East Conf  NCAA15Villanova2018
BSkyBig Sky ConfNorthern Colorado136NIT17Weber St.2010
BSthBig South ConfHigh Point97NIT8Winthrop2007
BWBig West ConfUC San Diego56NIT11Utah St.2003
CAACoastal Athletic AssocUNC Wilmington116NIT13UNC Wilmington2003
CUSAConf USALiberty77NCAA18Western Kentucky1966
HorzHorizon LeagueMilwaukee127NIT3Detroit Mercy1960
IvyIvy LeagueYale68NIT7Dartmouth1944
MAACMetro Atlantic Athletic ConfMerrimack186NIT15Niagara1970
MACMid American ConfAkron93NIT6Bowling Green1963
MEACMid-Eastern Athletic ConfNorfolk St.174NIT19Norfolk St.2012
MVCMissouri Valley ConfDrake64NIT1Northern Iowa2015
MWCMountain West ConfNew Mexico41NCAA17UNLV1991
NECNortheast ConfCentral Connecticut192NIT20Fairleigh Dickinson2005
OVCOhio Valley ConfLittle Rock205NIT16Morehead St.2011
P8Pacific Coast ConfNo 2025 Team   Gonzaga2017
PLPatriot LeagueAmerican232NIT2Holy Cross1950
SECSoutheastern ConfAuburn1NCAA11Kentucky1978
SECSoutheastern Conf  NCAA7Kentucky2012
SlndSouthland ConfMcNeese70NIT12Stephen f austin2016
SWACSouthwestern Athletic ConfSouthern221NIT18Texas Southern2013
SumSummit LeagueSouth Dakota St.109NIT9South Dakota St.2012
SBSun Belt ConfArkansas St.86NIT14James Madison2024
WCCWest Coast ConfGonzaga11NCAA16San Francisco1956
WACWestern Athletic ConfGrand Canyon91NIT5Seattle1958
SCSouthern ConfSamford98NIT4Wofford2019

Below this table is a list of the Pac-8, Mountain West and West Coast if all teams had already moved. If that were the case, then the Pac-8 would move ahead of the ACC as the 5th best conference right now, the Mountain West would drop from 6th to 10th, and the WCC would rank 12th.Below that are links to the star player on all 40 teams in our tournaments plus Gonzaga.
 
Rnk              Pac Eight 2026                        Rating
Best EverGonzaga 2017 Best Ever29
11Gonzaga25.8
46San Diego St.16.02
49Utah St.15.36
51Boise St.14.83
66Oregon St.12.35
74Colorado St.10.93
102Washington St.5.92
258Fresno St.-8.09
5Overall Pac-8 would rnk 511.64
   
RnkMountain West 2026Rating
Best EverUNLV 199134
41New Mexico16.48
87Nevada9.36
91Grand Canyon8.62
100UNLV6.24
154UTEP1.29
165San Jose St.0.14
170Wyoming-0.26
227UC Davis-5.14
300Air Force-11.21
10MWC 2026 would rank 10th2.84
   
 West Coast Conference 
Best EverSan Francisco 195629
24Saint Mary's22.54
63Santa Clara12.57
69San Francisco11.58
132Loyola Marymount2.68
161Seattle0.9
230Pepperdine-5.49
292San Diego-10.79
305Pacific-11.79
308Portland-12.24
11WCC would rnk 12th1.11




Below that are links to the star player on all 40 teams in our tournaments plus Gonzaga.
 
Teams                                        Yr                  Star                           
Bowling Green1963Nate Thurmond
Cincinnati1962Paul Hogue
Connecticut2023Adama Sanogo
Dartmouth1944Dick McGuire
Detroit Mercy1960Dave DeBusschere
Duke2001Shane Battier
Fairleigh Dickinson2005Gordon Klaiber
Gonzaga2017Nigel Williams-Goss
Holy Cross1950Bob Cousy #39
Indiana 1976Scott May
Jacksonville1970Artis Gilmore
James Madison2024Terrence Edwards
Kansas2008Mario Chalmers
Kansas1997Paul Pierce
Kentucky2012 Anthony Davis
Kentucky1978Jack Givens
Loyola-Chicago1963Jerry Harkness
Michigan1993Chris Webber
Michigan St.2000Mateen Cleaves
Morehead St.2011Kenneth Faried
Niagara1970Calvin Murphy
Norfolk St.2012Kyle O'Quinn
North Carolina 1982Michael Jordan
Northern Iowa2015Seth Tuttle
San Francisco1956Bill Russell #4
Seattle1958Elgin Baylor #23
South Dakota St.2012Nate Wolters
Stephen F Austin2016Thomas Walkup
Texas Southern2013Fred Sturdivant
UCLA1964Walt Hazzard
UCLA1972Bill Walton #64
UCLA1975Dave Meyers
UNC Wilmington2003Devontae Cacok
UNLV1991Larry Johnson
Utah St.2003Desmond Penigar
Vermont2020Anthony Lamb
Villanova2018Mikal Bridges
Weber St.2010Damian Lillard #68
Western Kentucky1966Clem Haskins
Winthrop2007Craig Bradshaw
Wofford2019Fletcher Magee



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