Bird and Taurasi Lead 2002 UConn to No. 1 All-time ranking

After our top 8 teams have already played the bottom eight teams in our all-time great Value Add Basketball Games teams on the road there are no upsets but teams moved around as UConn 2002 took over 1st place with a very impressive win behind Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, the Nol 3 and 7 all-time best players players. Meanwhile our first champ 1998 Tennessee dropped all the way to No. 6 with a less than impressive win against the 64th ranked Auburn team. Here is the updated all-time Top 10.

Rnk	Team	year	W	L	Score	Allow	Rate
1	Connecticut	2002	2	0	84.5	46,5	17.4
2	Texas	1986	3	0	80.3	62.7	15.8
3	Tennessee	2007	2	0	82.5	56.0	16.4
4	Louisiana Tech	1982	4	1	76.4	64.2	14.0
5	South Carolina	2024	2	0	80.0	71.0	14.0
6	Tennessee	1998	5	0	74.8	61.6	13.5
7	Connecticut	2016	2	1	78.8	56.0	13.2
8	Connecticut	1995	2	0	80.5	64.0	12.6
9	Notre Dame	2018	3	1	76.3	72.8	9.9
10	Connecticut	2010	2	1	73.3	73.3	9.3

Here are key players on each of the 10 teams in order.
  

Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, 3 and 7 all-time best player
Clarissa Davis, 40 all-time best player
Candace Parker, 10 all-time best player
Pam Kelly., 11 all-time best player
Kamilla Cardoso
Tamika Catchings and Chamique Holdsclaw., No. 1 and 21 all-time best player
Breanna Stewart, 4 all-time best player
Nykesha Sales and Rebecca Lobo, 31 and 37 all-time best players
Arike Ogunbowales
Maya Moore and Katie Lou Samuelson, 2 and 22 all-time best player

Block Party and Breanna Stewart Lead 2016 UConn to 76-39 Blowout Over 2005 LSU

LSU, a 2005 Final Four team and the only LSU women's team ever to go undefeated in SEC play, put up a great defensive fight to stay within 32-25 early in the second half. But even then, UConn was even better defensively, throwing a block party led by reserve

Napheesa Collier, who came off the bench with three early blocks. Her teammates added five more by halftime.

However, Breanna Stewart then took over, finishing with 22 points and 11 rebounds as UConn pulled away for a 76-39 victory. Stewart would go on to finish in the top three in WNBA MVP voting seven consecutive years and average 20 points and eight rebounds over her WNBA career. Nine of the 10 players on UConn's 2016 roster went on to play in the WNBA.

This UConn class was the only one in women's college basketball history to win four consecutive national championships, including an incredible 116-1 record over its final three seasons together, culminating in the 2016 title.

UConn had previously suffered an upset in our all-time tournament, dropping to No. 8 in our all-time ratings. But this enormous, lopsided victory should send the Huskies shooting back up the rankings.

Below are the box score and photos of the two team sheets at the beginning of the game. The coins indicate which player receives the ball on each roll of the eight-sided die. Reading from left to right, rolls of 1 through 5 go to the players in the order of their coins. For rolls of 6, 7 or 8, start again from the left, but count only the dimes.

Pos	UConn 2016 - Champs	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Ht	Pts,Reb,Ast
1-PG	Katie Lou Samuelson (wnba)	7	1	2	0	0	2	2	0	1	6'3	11.0, 3.4, 2.2
2-SG	Kia Nurse (wnba)	3	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	6'0	9.3, 1.9, 2.7
3-SF	Moriah Jefferson (wnba)	20	0	10	0	0	7	1	0	2	5'7	12.6, 2.5, 5.5
4-PF	Morgan Tuck (wnba)	6	0	3	0	0	9	0	2	1	6'2	13.7, 5.7, 3.5
5-C	Breanna Stewart (wnba)	22	1	6	7	8	11	0	3	4	6'4	19.4, 8.7, 4.0
1-PG	Courtney Ekmark	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'0	2.0, 1.1, 0.7
2-SG	Saniya Chong (wnba)	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5'8	3.7, 1.3, 1.0
3-SF	Napheesa Collier (wnba)	6	0	3	0	0	6	0	3	1	6'2	6.8, 5.2, 0.9
4-PF	Gabby Williams (wnba)	4	0	2	0	0	4	0	1	1	5'11	8.8, 5.6, 1.3
5-C	Natalie Butler	4	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	6'5	5.6, 4.0, 0.8
	11 Turnovers	76	2	31	8	10	45	4	9	14
Pos	LSU 2005 - Final 4	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Ht	Pts,Reb,Ast
1-PG	Temeka Johnson (wnba)	2	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	2	5'3	10.4, 3.3, 7.7
2-SG	Scholanda Dorrell (wnba)	5	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	1	5'10	8.9, 2.5, 2.1
3-SF	Seimone Augustus (wnba)	10	0	4	2	2	10	1	0	1	6'1	20.1, 4.6, 2.1
4-PF	Wendlyn Jones	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	6'1	4.7, 5.1, 0.8
5-C	Sylvia Fowles (wnba)	10	0	3	4	6	7	0	1	3	6'6	11.8, 9.0, 0.3
1-PG	RaShonta LeBlanc	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5'7	1.5, 1.2, 1.0
2-SG	Quianna Chaney (wnba)	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5'11	4.8, 0.9, 0.8
3-SF	Florence Williams	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	6'1	2.9, 2.4, 0.4
4-PF	Tillie Willis	2	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	3	6'3	3.1, 3.6, 0.4
5-C	Crystal White (wnba)	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'5	1.8, 2.2, 0.2
	16 Turnovers	39	1	15	6	8	32	7	1	15

Statis-Pro Wrap Before It's All-Time College Basketball Again

 After a lapse is posts we are ready to return to our all-time college women's basketball tournament.

However, we did want to do one last look back at the 6 months we spend on the Statis-Pro baseball season.

In the NL, the runner up in both Statis-Pro and the real season, was the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In the World Series, the AL champion was the Tampa Bay Rays and in both Statis-Pro and actual MLB play the Rays lost.

So of the top three teams, the only difference was that the Philadelphia Phillies won the Statis-Pro World Series while our hometown Milwaukee Brewers won the actual World Series.

So we pulled the WAR ratings for most of the major players from the Brewers and Phillies to see why it was the Brewers who seemed better - and will have the better projected cards in Statis-Pro for next year vs the Brewers. And it's pretty clear as overall the major Brewers players were worth more that 13 additoinal wins in 2026 vs 2025 which would have been the strongerest impact on the cards. Obviously almost half of that is Misiorowski, who had control problems in his rookie 2025 and thus lots of walks on his cards, while in 2026 he was untouchable - thus worth 6.4 wins above replacement vs just 0.5 in 2025.

Three other Milwaukee players were worth about 3 more wins in 2026 than 2025, and there were also two Phillies starters and the closer who were worth about 3 more wins.

However, the biggest drop for the Phillies was Trea Turner actually going from being worth 5.5 wins in 2025 to almost no value in 2026 - so he was the big collapse costing the team almost as much as the Brewers benefitted from Jacob's improvement.

Brewers Player	Pos	2026	2025	Improve
Jacob Misiorowski	SP	6.4	0.5	5.9
Garrett Mitchell*	CF	3.5	0	3.5
Jackson Chourio	LF	4.9	2.2	2.7
Jake Bauers*	1B	3.3	0.6	2.7
Joey Ortiz	IF	2.6	0.2	2.4
Brice Turang*	2B	7.3	5.5	1.8
Cooper Pratt	SS	1.7	0	1.7
DL Hall*		1.9	0.6	1.3
Andrew Vaughn	1B	1.5	1.3	0.2
Trevor Megill	CL	1.7	1.6	0.1
Chad Patrick	RP	1.7	2	-0.3
Abner Uribe	RP	2.3	2.7	-0.4
Aaron Ashby*	RP	1.2	1.9	-0.7
William Contreras	C	2.9	3.8	-0.9
Christian Yelich*	DH	0.1	3	-2.9
Sal Frelick*	RF	-0.5	2.9	-3.4
13-14 games better				13.7
Phillies Player	Pos	2026	2025	Improve
Aaron Nola	SP	3.1	-0.3	3.4
Jesús Luzardo*	SP	6.5	3.8	2.7
Jhoan Duran	CL	3.4	0.9	2.5
Zack Wheeler	SP	6.1	5.1	1
Bryce Harper*	1B	3.1	3.1	0
Cristopher Sánchez*	SP	8.1	8.1	0
Bryson Stott*	2B	1.8	2.2	-0.4
José Alvarado*	RP	-0.4	0.4	-0.8
Orion Kerkering	RP	0.1	0.9	-0.8
Brandon Marsh*	LF	0.4	1.6	-1.2
Edmundo Sosa	UT	0.9	2.3	-1.4
Alec Bohm	3B	-0.2	1.4	-1.6
Kyle Schwarber*	DH	2.6	4.6	-2
Tanner Banks*		-0.4	1.6	-2
J.T. Realmuto	C	0	2.5	-2.5
Trea Turner	SS	-0.1	5.4	-5.5
8-9 Wins Worse				-8.6