PudnerSports.com: Jimmy V Double Header - Iona Wins, NC State Next

We are sometimes asked about cutting up a Value Add Basketball Game team sheets into five players, which of course you can do. However, our suggestion is to use dimes and pennies to mark who is in the game. Jimmy Valvano's 1980 Iona starting line-up is pictured, and since they were all in the game at this point there is a coin on each player on the top line (starting line-up).

So on the 8-sided die that starts the possession, a roll of 1-5 gives the ball to the player in that order (1 = point guard Glenn Vickers, all the way to a 5 = future NBA player Jeff Ruland. The dimes are positioned on the players who can get the ball on a 6, 7 or 8. In this case, a "6" is the first dime left to right, and that is Kevin Hamilton, who scored 17 points in the game. Ruland has two dimes so you now that both a 7 & 8 go to him - and he had a monster game with 19 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocked shots BUT kept Jimmy V nervous getting his 4th foul with 7:40 to go but did not foul out.

This was the first of our two games with Jimmy V as coach, as his Iona squad won a defensive brawl over the 2025 Drake team 66-56, and next his NC State 1983 champs from three years later to play