Dolph Schayes passed away ten years ago at 87 years old, but in our game his 1948 New York University team will face the youngest player in the NBA - 18 -year old Cooper Flagg in the Duke 2025 debut in the Value Add Basketball Game. You can always see updated rankings and upcoming match-ups on this google sheet. You can print out any of the 16 new 2025 Great Teams here.
We have a lock for a new 2026 team - Michigan. Has any team ever won three straight games against A-Level games by 30 points or more like Michigan just did to San Diego State, Auburn and Gonzaga. WOW! We will have to wait until next year for those player cards.
As for the 16 new 2025 teams we scrapped our plans to just play them against each other and instead combined them with the 16 teams playing in our tournament of teams that featured one of the all-time great players. The tournament below matches the best new Value Add Basketball Game team from 2025 (Florida which debuts ranked #19 of the great teams in the game) against the weakest of the 16 remaining teams from that tournament (#276 Weber State with the great Damian Lillard ranked as #75 best all-time player in the game) and the lowest rated new 2025 team (#271 Troy) against the best team left in that tournament (#20 Michigan's 1993 Fab 5 with Chris Weber ranked as 76th greatest player).
Here is the bracket, and below it we have links to the star player on each team.
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Each match-up includes the 2025 team debuting in red, and in each case they are playing the team below them in black that features one of the greatest players of all time.
| All-Time | School | Year | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Florida 1 | 2025 | Walter Clayton Jr. 1st team |
| 276 | Weber St. | 2010 | Damian Lillard #75 |
| 23 | Duke 1 | 2025 | Cooper Flagg, AA, NBA #1 |
| 272 | NYU | 1948 | Dolph Schayes #70 |
| 111 | Maryland 4 | 2025 | Derik Queen, NBA #13 |
| 267 | Massachusetts | 1971 | Julius Erving #14 |
| 112 | St. John's 2 | 2025 | RJ Luis 2nd team |
| 247 | Gonzaga | 1981 | John Stockton #24 |
| 130 | Brigham Young 6 | 2025 | Egor Demin, NBA #8 |
| 246 | California | 1993 | Jason Kidd #43 |
| 131 | Illinois 6 | 2025 | Kasparas Jakucionis (20th) & Will Riley (21) NBA picks |
| 243 | New Mexico | 1974 | Bernard Hardin top 100 |
| 159 | New Mexico 10 | 2025 | Donovan Dent and Nelly Jr. Joseph |
| 225 | Louisville | 1980 | Darrell Griffith top 100 |
| 171 | Drake 11 | 2025 | Bennett Stirtz Con MVP (Larry Bird Award) |
| 212 | Providence | 1960 | Lenny Wilkens #65 |
| 189 | McNeese 12 | 2025 | Javohn Garcia, Conf POY |
| 188 | Oregon St. | 1990 | Gary Payton #42 |
| 190 | VCU 11 | 2025 | Max Shulga, NBA #57 |
| 187 | LSU | 1953 | Bob Pettit #35 |
| 208 | Oklahoma 9 | 2025 | Jeremiah Fears, NBA #7 |
| 116 | Georgetown | 1995 | Allen Iverson #31 |
| 209 | UC San Diego 12 | 2025 | Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones conf POY |
| 75 | North Carolina | 1972 | Bob McAdoo #45 |
| 222 | UC Irvine | 2025 | Jurian Dixon, conf freshman of year |
| 44 | Georgetown | 1989 | Alonzo Mourning #78 |
| 244 | Chattanooga | 2025 | Honor Huff, call conf |
| 43 | Connecticut | 1996 | Ray Allen #47 |
| 266 | UAB | 2025 | Yaxel Lendeborg, Sr., F, UAB Def POY |
| 34 | UCLA | 2008 | Russell Westbrook #68 |
| 271 | Troy 14 | 2025 | Tayton Conerway, Conf POY |
| 20 | Michigan | 1993 | Chris Webber #76 |
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