Updated Scoresheet and Value Add Basketball Instructions - UCLA 2018 & Texas 1986 Advance, 12 debut games left

We just updated our Value Add Basketball Game instructions with some new screen shots of key players as well. You can still read the entire instruction this main post for playing the free game, but here is the new beginning of the post. Now that we have the 64 women's teams in place, we also tweaked the scoresheet to show where quarters end.

Our most recent game was a 71-63 win by UCLA 2018 over USC 1994. In that game the double dimes indicate USC star center Lisa Leslie gets the ball on a 5, 7 or 8 while the UCLA star points guard Jordin Canada (20 points and 5 steals in this win) gets the ball on a 1, 6 or 7. UCLA moved up from 43rd to 35th in our updated all-time rankings, while USC dropped from 44th to 54th, but Cheryl Miller's USC team from 11 years earlier is 12th all-time. 

The 2010 Oklahoma team looked strong despite the 66-76 loss vs the first undefeated team - Texas 1986. Texas dropped from 3rd to 4th all-time due to the closer than expected loss, while Oklahoma shot up from 52nd to 45th all-time with the strong showing.

You can print out the scoresheet below in 2 pages, or open this google sheet to score a game. You do need this scoresheet to determine who gets rebounds and for the starting stats for a Value Add Basketball Games since we start players with two points and some other stats and a 20-20 score to keep the play time for the game to 30 to 45 minutes.

Choose the teams you want to play. Click on one of the following links to choose your men's team ...

New List A - Alabama to Connecticut 2004

New List B - Connecticut 2023 to Georgia Tech 2004

New List C- Gonzaga 2017 to Kentucky 1948

New List D- Kentucky 1970 to Miami 1965

New List E - Miami 2013 to North Carolina St. 1974

New List F - Northwestern 2017 to Seton Hall 1989

New List G - Seton Hall 2020 to UCLA 2006

New List H - UCLA 2021 to Yale 2024

... or to choose a woman's team:

We added 11 great women's teams due to more stats becoming available and us finding the coveted Texas 1985-86 stats to make that team (they actually recorded even blocked shots and steals that many did not record until years later).

On this link, Women's Great Teams - Arizona 2021 to Marquette 2019, we added Arizona 2021 (page 1), Auburn 1989 (page 2), Louisiana Tech 1987 (page 19) and LSU 2005 (page 23).

On this link, Women's Great Teams - Maryland 2006 to Stanford 2021, we added Michigan State 2005 (page 2), Notre Dame 2012 (page 8), Oklahoma 2002 (page 12), Old Dominion 1985 (page 15) and Old Dominion 1997 (page 16).

The big two changes were to the third and final - Women's Greats Hoops - Tennessee (8 of greatest 50 ever and we included 3) to Washington 2007Tennessee (8 of greatest 50 ever and we included 3) to Washington 2007 - with perhaps the greatest team ever (Texas 1986) added as well as Tennessee 1989 to give Pat Summit perhaps three of the top seven teams in the game. They are on pages 1 and 4 respectively.

4/24/2024 Note - below the dunk chart used to double check what the DUNK or STOP range are, we have added the new Advanced Jack Gohlke "Dunk Range" Rule.

We track all results - click here for all-time men's results and here for all-time women's results.

College  Basketball Reference references to player cards listed above - Caitlin Clark, Jalen Brunson, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, A'ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Sue Bird (her UConn teammate Diana Taurasi may have been the greatest pro), Maya Moore, Tamika Catchings, Bill Walton, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird

Here are the games in our new 64 team tournament - but only the 14 games matching teams yet to play in the game. All men's teams have been played in a game.

Team	Yr	Player	Rate	Spread	Opponent	Yr	Result
Arizona	2021	Aari McDonald	-8	-14	Louisiana Tech	1988
Auburn	1989	Carolyn Jones	6	11	Rutgers	1988
Colorado St.	1999	Becky Hammon	-4	-2	Stanford	2012
Indiana	2024	MacKenzie Holmes	-5	-13	Notre Dame	2012
Kentucky	2013	DeNesha Stallworth	-3	3	LSU	2005
Louisiana Tech	1988	Teresa Weatherspoon	6	14	Arizona	2021
Louisville	2009	Angel McCoughtry	-5	-4	Old Dominion	1985
LSU	2005	Sylvia Fowles, Seimone Augustus	-6	-3	Kentucky	2013
Marquette	2019	Chloe Marotta, N Hiedeman	-5	-17	Tennessee	1989
Maryland	2006	Crystal Langhorne	1	2	NC State	2024
Michigan St.	2005	Liz Shimek	0	1	Rutgers	2005
NC State	2024	Aziaha James	-1	-2	Maryland	2006
North Carolina	2007	Ivory Latta	-1	-6	Old Dominion	1997
Notre Dame	2012	Kylar Diggins	8	13	Indiana	2024
Ohio State	1993	Katie Smith	1	3	Vanderbilt	2002
Oklahoma	2010	Abi Olajuwon	-5	-19	Texas	1986	L66-76
Oklahoma	2002	Stacey Dales	-4	0	Texas Tech	1993
Old Dominion	1985	Adrienne Goodson	6	11	Louisville	2009
Old Dominion	1997	Ticha Penicheiro	5	6	North Carolina	2007
Rutgers	1988	Sue Wicks	-5	-11	Auburn	1989
Rutgers	2005	Cappie Poindexter	-1	-1	Michigan St.	2005
Stanford	2012	Nnemkadi Ogwumike	-2	2	Colorado St.	1999
Tennessee	1989	Bridgette Gordon	12	17	Marquette	2019
Texas	1986	Clarissa Davis	14	19	Oklahoma	2010	WW76-66
Texas Tech	1993	Sheryl Swoopes	-4	0	Oklahoma	2002
UCLA	2018	Monique Billings	-3	0	USC	1994	W71-63
USC	1994	Lisa Leslie, Tina Thompson	-3	0	UCLA	2018	L63-71
Vanderbilt	2002	Chantelle Anderson	-2	-3	Ohio State	1993

38 in NBA Playoffs Also On All-Time Great College Team

 Only 1% of Division I college players make the NBA, so just sitting on an NBA bench in the playoffs is a huge accomplishment. The following are the 38 players who were on one of the all-time great college teams featured in our Value Add Basketball Game AND were on the floor for one of the last few NBA games as one of the 16 teams still alive. 

The earliest team represented is the 2006 Florida Gators with Al Horford still playing for the No. 1 seed Boston Celtics. Two of the all-time greats from 2007 teams in our game put up amazing numbers 17 years later with Kevin Durant of Texas putting up 25 points and Mike Conley of Ohio State having 15 points and seven assists for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Obviously it is more likely a more recent team will still have players in the NBA, and the 2018 and 2019 NCAA champs from Villanova and Virginia are the only two all-time great college teams with three players alive in the NBA playoffs. The best of those is Nova's Jalen Brunson who just put up 39 points and 13 assists.

The other great teams in our game with two players still alive in the NBA playoffs are UCLA 2008 (Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook still under the big lights 16 years later), Marquette 2011 (Jae Crowder and Jimmy Butler), Iowa State 2014 (Monte Morris and Georges Niang) and finally UConn 2023 (already Jordan Hawkins and Andre Jackson since most stayed around for the 2024 title run).

Some players just got on the court (0 points), others did not get in the game either because they were injured (Jimmy Butler) or just didn't get on the rotation, but all of these are in the elite group that is coming out to warm up as one of the remaining 16 NBA Playoff teams and a member of an all-time great college team in our game.

The first 230 All-time great teams have already played at least one games, leaving only our 25th greatest player of all time John Stockton with his 1984 Gonzaga against the 2024 Grand Canyon team with Danny Wolf, and our 48th greatest player of all time Gary Payton leading his 1990 Oregon State team against the Yale 2024 team and Tyon Grant-Foster. 

While this is not as issue for the players alive in the playoffs below since they all played witha. College 3-point line, you will notice we include 3-point shots even for players who played before the line was there. This was estimated in various ways such as later mapping of Pistol Pete Maravich's shots to see which would have been 3-pointers to Stockton's card above based on him hitting more than 40 percent if his 3-pointers in 7 NBA seasons from the deeper line.

Team in Game	Year	Player	NBA Playoff Team	Last Playoff Game
Florida	2006	Al Horford	Boston Celtics	9 pts, 6 reb, +15
Ohio State	2007	Mike Conley	Minnesota Timberwolves	15 pts, 4 reb, 7 ast
Texas	2007	Kevin Durant	Phoenix Suns	25 pts, 4 reb, 5 ast
Stanford	2008	Brook Lopez	Milwaukee Bucks	14 pts, 4 reb
UCLA	2008	Kevin Love	Miami Heat	2 reb
UCLA	2008	Russell Westbrook	Los Angeles Clippers	1 pt, 3 reb
Arizona State	2009	James Harden	Los Angeles Clippers	21 pts, 5 ast
Butler	2010	Gordon Hayward	Oklahoma City Thunder	4 reb
Weber State	2010	Damian Lillard	Milwaukee Bucks	28 pts, 8 ast
Duke	2010	Mason Plumlee	Los Angeles Clippers	7 pts
Marquette	2011	Jimmy Butler	Miami Heat	did not play
Marquette	2011	Jae Crowder	Milwaukee Bucks	0 pts
San Diego State	2011	Kawhi Leonard	Los Angeles Clippers	7 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast
Kentucky	2012	Anthony Davis	Los Angeles Lakers	33 pts, 15 reb
Creighton	2014	Doug McDermott	Indiana Pacers	did not play
Iowa State	2014	Monté Morris	Minnesota Timberwolves	2 pts
Iowa State	2014	Georges Niang	Cleveland Cavaliers	2 pts
Oklahoma	2016	Buddy Hield	Philadelphia 76ers	0 pts
SMU	2017	Shake Milton	New York Knicks	did not play
Oregon	2017	Payton Pritchard	Boston Celtics	7 pts, 3 reb
Villanova	2018	Jalen Brunson	New York Knicks	39 pts, 13 ast
Villanova	2018	Donte DiVincenzo	New York Knicks	5 reb, 4 pts
Villanova	2018	Collin  Gillespie	Denver Nuggets	0 pts
Virginia	2019	Mamadi Diakite	New York Knicks	did not play
Virginia	2019	Jay  Huff	Denver Nuggets	0 pts
Virginia	2019	Braxton Key	Denver Nuggets	0 pts
Auburn	2019	Chuma Okeke	Orlando Magic	3 pts
Dayton	2020	Obi Toppin	Indiana Pacers	15 pts, 6 reb
Iowa	2021	Luka Garza	Minnesota Timberwolves	0 pts
UCLA	2021	Jaime Jaquez	Miami Heat	12 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast
USC	2021	Evan Mobley	Cleveland Cavaliers	14 pts, 9 reb
Duke	2022	Paolo Banchero	Orlando Magic	9 pts, 4 reb, 5 ast
Kansas	2022	Christian Braun	Denver Nuggets	5 pts, 2 reb
Duke	2022	Wendell Moore	Minnesota Timberwolves	0 pts
Connecticut	2023	Jordan Hawkins	New Orleans Pelicans	1 reb
Connecticut	2023	Andre Jackson	Milwaukee Bucks	2 pts, 3 reb
Michigan	2023	Caris LeVert	Cleveland Cavaliers	5 pts, 1 reb
Gonzaga	2023	Julian Strawther	Denver Nuggets	did not play